Publications

Selected recent publications and working papers. For a full list, see Google Scholar.

Preprint 2026

Alignment has a Fantasia Problem

Nathanael Jo, Zoe De Simone, Mitchell Gordon, and Ashia Wilson. arXiv

Preprint 2026

Pandora's Regret: A Proper Scoring Rule for Evaluating Sequential Search

Gerardo Flores, Yash Deshpande, Jannis R. Brea, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

Preprint 2026

Creo: From One-Shot Image Generation to Progressive, Co-Creative Ideation

Zoe De Simone, Angie Boggust, Fredo Durand, Arvind Satyanarayan, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

AI4Good Workshop 2026

Evaluation without Generation: Non-Generative Assessment of Harmful Model Specialization with Applications to CSAM

Vinith Suriyakumar, Ayush Sekhari, Lena Stempfle, Robertson Wang, Michael Simpson, Rebecca Portnoff, Marzyeh Ghassemi, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

COLT 2026

Accelerated Convex Optimization via Hamiltonian Dynamics with Deterministic Integration Time

Xiuyuan Wang, Vishwak Srinivasan, Qiang Fu, Siddharth Mitra, Andre Wibisono, and Ashia C. Wilson.

AISTATS 2026

A Consequentialist Critique of Binary Classification Evaluation: Theory, Practice, and Tools

Gerardo Flores, Abby Schiff, Alyssa Smith, Julia Fukuyama, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

CHI 2026

Interaction Context Often Increases Sycophancy in LLMs

Shomik Jain, Charlotte Park, Matheus Vianna, Dana Calacci, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

ICML 2026

Position: AI Evaluations Should be Grounded on a Theory of Capability

Nathan Jo and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

ICML 2026

Near-Optimal Private Linear Regression via Iterative Hessian Mixing

Omri Lev, Vishwak Srinivasan, Moshe Shenfeld, Katrina Ligett, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

FAccT 2026

Impacts of Semivalue-Based Data Curation on Fair Machine Learning Outcomes

Hannah Diehl, Justin Steil, and Ashia C. Wilson. paper

NeurIPS 2025

Aligning Evaluation with Clinical Priorities: Calibration, Label Shift, and Error Costs

Gerardo Flores, Alyssa Smith, Julia Fukuyama, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

NeurIPS 2025

The Gaussian Mixing Mechanism: Renyi Differential Privacy via Gaussian Sketches

Omri Lev, Vishwak Srinivasan, Moshe Shenfeld, Katrina Ligett, Ayush Sekhari, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

NeurIPS 2025

Homogeneous Algorithms Can Reduce Competition in Personalized Pricing

Nathan Jo, Kathleen Creel, Manish Raghavan, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

ICLR 2025

Adaptive Backtracking Line Search

Laurent Lessard, Joao Cavalcanti, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

ALT 2025

High-accuracy sampling from constrained spaces with the Metropolis-adjusted Preconditioned Langevin Algorithm

Vishwak Srinivasan, Andre Wibisono, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

FAccT 2025

Allocation Multiplicity: Evaluating the Promises of the Rashomon Set

Shomik Jain, Margaret Wang, Kathleen Creel, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

FAccT 2024

Algorithmic Pluralism: A Structural Approach To Equal Opportunity

Shomik Jain, Vinith Suriyakumar, Kathleen Creel, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

ICML 2024

Scarce Resource Allocations That Rely On Machine Learning Should Be Randomized

Shomik Jain, Kathleen Creel, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

TMLR 2026

Unstable Unlearning: The Hidden Risk of Concept Resurgence in Diffusion Models

Vinith Suriyakumar, Rohan Alur, Ayush Sekhari, Manish Raghavan, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

Preprint 2025

LLM Output Homogenization is Task Dependent

Shomik Jain, Jack Lanchantin, Maximilian Nickel, Karen Ullrich, Jamelle Watson-Daniels, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

Preprint 2025

UCD: Unlearning in LLMs via Contrastive Decoding

Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Ayush Sekhari, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv

Preprint 2025

Adaptive kernel selection for Stein Variational Gradient Descent

Moritz Melcher, Simon Weissmann, Jakob Zech, and Ashia C. Wilson. arXiv