Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology

Auditing sex/gender disparities in emergency triage with LLM-based paired comparisons

We present a domain-agnostic paired-comparison approach that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to quantify sex/gender-related asymmetries in documented clinical decision-making. The method trains an LLM to emulate observed decisions, then evaluates sex-swapped pairs in which only...

Computing volume of a polytope and integrals in high dimensions deterministically

Abstract We design a Correlation-Decay based quasi-polynomial time deterministic approximation algorithm for computing high dimensional integrals, applied in two settings. The first is computing the volume of an independent set polytope with restrictions. Randomized polynomial ti...

From Coase to culture? Visible Hands Build Equilibria

Abstract This essay proposes that the classic distinction in Ronald Coase's 1937 paper ‘The nature of the firm’ ( Economica , vol. 4, pp. 386–405) between firms and markets be gracefully retired, having been duly celebrated for its field‐launching contribution to organizational e...

Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Designing public transport networks involves trade-offs between coverage, service frequency, and direct service. We use the expansion of the bus system in Jakarta, Indonesia, to study these trade-offs. We analyze how new direct connections, changes in bus travel time, and wait-ti...