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Soham De

@sohamde.in

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🎓 PhD student @ischool.uw.edu (he/him) 🤝 Interested in pluralistic alignment & scalable oversight in the context of social media algorithms Academic Website: sohamde.in | 📍Seattle, WA

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 07/11/2025

All thanks to my amazing collaborators Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel, Smitha Milli, Ariel Procaccia and Alice Siu!!! This was some work I did Meta FAIR this summer (more on the way!) Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04588 (7/7)

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 07/11/2025

Our auditing tools are integrated into a deliberation platform used in 50+ countries, allowing moderators to measure and improve representation in real time (thanks, Harshvardhan Agarwal and others!) (6/7)

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 07/11/2025

LLM-generated questions achieve representation levels comparable to—or better than—the theoretically optimal subsets, and consistently outperform human-selected slates (lower value is better) (5/7)

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 07/11/2025

We infer general utilities using LLM text-embeddings, assuming participants derive high utility from questions semantically similar to ones they propose (3/7)

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 07/11/2025

🚨 New paper! 🔍 “Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes” In deliberative polls, participants propose questions for experts but only a few make it to the panel. How representative are those chosen questions of everyone’s interests? 🧵👇

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 24/04/2025

Beyond helpfulness, participants also rated the Supernotes more favorably than the best existing notes on quality, clarity, coverage, context, and argumentativeness.

Supernotes are also found to be superior on several other parameters, such as source quality, clarity, comprehensiveness, context and (lack of) argumentativeness

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 24/04/2025

In a human-subjects evaluation, participants rated Supernotes significantly more helpful than the best existing human-written notes on Community Notes.

Supernotes are more helpful than the best existing notes

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 24/04/2025

I'll be in Sydney presenting ✨Supernotes✨ at the ACM WebConf 🚀 (WWW'25). Incase you missed it, here's a very short thread about it: 🧵 Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #www2025 #thewebconf2025

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 03/04/2025

UW Campus, today! #peakbloom #seattle #cherryblossoms

Cherry blossoms and clouds at the UW Quad

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