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Max Springer

10 accepted papers

2026

Bi-Criteria Metric Distortion

ICLR 2026poster

Selecting representatives based on voters' preferences is a fundamental problem in social choice theory. While cardinal utility functions offer a detailed representation of preferences, voters often cannot precisely quantify their affinity towards a given candidate. As a result, modern voting system…

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2026

Greedy Coordinate Diffusion: Effective and Semantically Coherent Adversarial Attacks via Diffusion Guidance

ICML 2026poster

Although there is a rich literature on adversarial attacks on large language models, their current practical impact is limited. Gradient-based attacks such as Greedy Coordinate Gradient (Zou et al., 2023) typically produce high-perplexity, incoherent suffixes that are easily detectable and thus easy…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Almost Envy-Free Allocations of Indivisible Goods or Chores with Entitlements

AAAI 2024technical

We here address the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods or chores to n agents with weights that define their entitlement to the set of indivisible resources. Stemming from well-studied fairness concepts such as envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) and envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) for…

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2024

Dynamic Metric Embedding into lp Space

ICML 2024poster

We give the first non-trivial decremental dynamic embedding of a weighted, undirected graph $G$ into $\ell_p$ space. Given a weighted graph $G$ undergoing a sequence of edge weight increases, the goal of this problem is to maintain a (randomized) mapping $\phi: (G,d) \to (X,\ell_p)$ from the set of…

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2024

Fairness and Efficiency in Online Class Matching

NeurIPS 2024poster

The online bipartite matching problem, extensively studied in the literature, deals with the allocation of online arriving vertices (items) to a predetermined set of offline vertices (agents). However, little attention has been given to the concept of class fairness, where agents are categorized int…

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2023

An Improved Relaxation for Oracle-Efficient Adversarial Contextual Bandits

NeurIPS 2023poster

We present an oracle-efficient relaxation for the adversarial contextual bandits problem, where the contexts are sequentially drawn i.i.d from a known distribution and the cost sequence is chosen by an online adversary. Our algorithm has a regret bound of $O(T^{\frac{2}{3}}(K\log(|\Pi|))^{\fra…

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2023

Fair, Polylog-Approximate Low-Cost Hierarchical Clustering

NeurIPS 2023poster

Research in fair machine learning, and particularly clustering, has been crucial in recent years given the many ethical controversies that modern intelligent systems have posed. Ahmadian et al. [2020] established the study of fairness in hierarchical clustering, a stronger, more structured variant o…

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2023

Generalized Reductions: Making any Hierarchical Clustering Fair and Balanced with Low Cost

ICML 2023poster

Clustering is a fundamental building block of modern statistical analysis pipelines. Fair clustering has seen much attention from the machine learning community in recent years. We are some of the first to study fairness in the context of hierarchical clustering, after the results of Ahmadian et al.…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2022

Online Algorithms for the Santa Claus Problem

NeurIPS 2022accept

The Santa Claus problem is a fundamental problem in {\em fair division}: the goal is to partition a set of {\em heterogeneous} items among {\em heterogeneous} agents so as to maximize the minimum value of items received by any agent. In this paper, we study the online version of this problem where t…

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