Dena Mujtaba — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Aligning Machiavellian Agents: Behavior Steering via Test-Time Policy Shaping

Dena Mujtaba, Brian Hu, Anthony Hoogs, Arslan Basharat

AAAI 2026technical

The deployment of decision-making AI agents presents a critical challenge in maintaining alignment with human values or guidelines while operating in complex, dynamic environments. Agents trained solely to achieve their objectives may adopt harmful behavior, exposing a key trade-off between maximizi

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2024

Lost in Transcription: Identifying and Quantifying the Accuracy Biases of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Against Disfluent Speech

Dena Mujtaba, Nihar Mahapatra, Megan Arney, J Yaruss, Hope Gerlach-Houck, Caryn Herring +1

NAACL 2024long

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, increasingly prevalent in education, healthcare, employment, and mobile technology, face significant challenges in inclusivity, particularly for the 80 million-strong global community of people who stutter. These systems often fail to accurately interpret…

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