IIT@MIT

Competition and Diversity in Generative AI

Recent evidence, both in the laboratory and in the wild, suggests that the use of generative artificial intelligence reduces the diversity of content produced. As generative AI penetrates more markets and reaches widespread adoption, should we still expect to see content homogeni...

How content sophistication shapes climate discourse on YouTube

We analyze 3163 climate-related YouTube videos posted between 2006 and 2021. More sophisticated videos—those with higher production quality, richer descriptions, longer duration, and specialized terminology—draw climate-related comments that lean toward explicit position-taking a...

Estimating vehicular emissions by applying deep learning on video camera scenes

Despite advances in electrification, urban traffic remains a substantial source of air pollution and poses a major threat to public health. Addressing the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of vehicular emissions requires scalable methodologies. Here, we present a deep learning-b...

The Dedicated Docket in U.S. Immigration Courts: An Analysis of Fairness and Efficiency Properties

Problem definition: The dedicated docket was introduced by the Biden Administration to reform the immigration system. It creates a separate queue for immigration proceedings where judges are supposed to issue a decision for each case within a target timeframe. The administration...

Tangent Blow‐Ups for Processing Non‐Manifold Geometry

Abstract Many geometry processing pipelines implicitly assume their input data is a manifold, or is sampled from one, with a unique tangent plane at every point. Geometric data, however, routinely contains sharp features like edges, corners, self‐intersections, branching junction...