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Vijay Keswani

8 accepted papers

2026

Moral Change or Noise? On Problems of Aligning AI with Temporally Unstable Human Feedback

AAAI 2026technical

Alignment methods in moral domains seek to elicit moral preferences of human stakeholders and incorporate them into AI. This presupposes moral preferences as static targets, but such preferences often evolve over time. Proper alignment of AI to dynamic human preferences should ideally account for "l

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2026

Position: We Need Practical AI Alignment Methods that Mirror Human Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

AI systems are increasingly employed as decision aids, decision delegates, or autonomous decision-makers. This position paper argues that in many settings, particularly high-stakes decision-making, we need accurate cognitively-aligned AI systems that reason similarly to their users, and faithfully c…

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2026

Towards Cognitively-Faithful Decision-Making Models to Improve AI Alignment

ICLR 2026poster

Recent AI trends seek to align AI models to learned human-centric objectives, such as personal preferences, utility, or societal values. Using standard preference elicitation methods, researchers and practitioners build models of human decisions and judgments, to which AI models are aligned. However…

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2024

Fair Classification with Partial Feedback: An Exploration-Based Data Collection Approach

ICML 2024poster

In many predictive contexts (e.g., credit lending), true outcomes are only observed for samples that were positively classified in the past. These past observations, in turn, form training datasets for classifiers that make future predictions. However, such training datasets lack information about t…

2022

A Convergent and Dimension-Independent Min-Max Optimization Algorithm

ICML 2022oral

We study a variant of a recently introduced min-max optimization framework where the max-player is constrained to update its parameters in a greedy manner until it reaches a first-order stationary point. Our equilibrium definition for this framework depends on a proposal distribution which the min-p…

2021

Fair Classification with Noisy Protected Attributes: A Framework with Provable Guarantees

ICML 2021spotlight

We present an optimization framework for learning a fair classifier in the presence of noisy perturbations in the protected attributes. Compared to prior work, our framework can be employed with a very general class of linear and linear-fractional fairness constraints, can handle multiple, non-binar…

2020

Data preprocessing to mitigate bias: A maximum entropy based approach

ICML 2020poster

Data containing human or social attributes may over- or under-represent groups with respect to salient social attributes such as gender or race, which can lead to biases in downstream applications. This paper presents an algorithmic framework that can be used as a data preprocessing method towards m…

2018

Fair and Diverse DPP-Based Data Summarization

ICML 2018oral

Sampling methods that choose a subset of the data proportional to its diversity in the feature space are popular for data summarization. However, recent studies have noted the occurrence of bias {–} e.g., under or over representation of a particular gender or ethnicity {–} in such data summarization…

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