Robert West

Robert West

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

H-index: 31

Europe-Switzerland

About Robert West

Robert West, With an exceptional h-index of 31 and a recent h-index of 28 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, specializes in the field of natural language processing, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational social science.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption

Causally estimating the effect of YouTube’s recommender system using counterfactual bots

Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers

Fly-swat or cannon? Cost-effective language model choice via meta-modeling

Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia

Descartes: Generating short descriptions of Wikipedia articles

Quotatives indicate decline in objectivity in us political news

Flows: Building blocks of reasoning and collaborating ai

Robert West Information

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Citations(all)

4722

Citations(since 2020)

3534

Cited By

2201

hIndex(all)

31

hIndex(since 2020)

28

i10Index(all)

70

i10Index(since 2020)

65

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Robert West Skills & Research Interests

natural language processing

data science

artificial intelligence

machine learning

computational social science

Top articles of Robert West

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09497

Tiziano Piccardi

Martin Gerlach

Robert West

2023/5/16

Causally estimating the effect of YouTube’s recommender system using counterfactual bots

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Homa Hosseinmardi

Amir Ghasemian

Miguel Rivera-Lanas

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Robert West

...

2024/2/20

Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10588

Chris Wendler

Veniamin Veselovsky

Giovanni Monea

Robert West

2024/2/16

Fly-swat or cannon? Cost-effective language model choice via meta-modeling

Marija Šakota

Maxime Peyrard

Robert West

2024/3/4

Orphan Articles: The Dark Matter of Wikipedia

Akhil Arora

Robert West

Martin Gerlach

2024

Descartes: Generating short descriptions of Wikipedia articles

Marija Sakota

Maxime Peyrard

Robert West

2023/4/30

Quotatives indicate decline in objectivity in us political news

Proceedings of ICWSM

Tiancheng Hu

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Robert West

Andreas Spitz

2023/6/2

Flows: Building blocks of reasoning and collaborating ai

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01285

Martin Josifoski

Lars Klein

Maxime Peyrard

Yifei Li

Saibo Geng

...

2023/8/2

A large-scale characterization of how readers browse Wikipedia

ACM Transactions on the Web

Tiziano Piccardi

Martin Gerlach

Akhil Arora

Robert West

2023/4/3

The amplification paradox in recommender systems

Proceedings of ICWSM

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Veniamin Veselovsky

Robert West

2023/2

SoK: Memorization in General-Purpose Large Language Models

arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.18362

Valentin Hartmann

Anshuman Suri

Vincent Bindschaedler

David Evans

Shruti Tople

...

2023/10/24

Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report)

Plos one

Kristina Gligorić

George Lifchits

Robert West

Ashton Anderson

2023/3/24

Tube2Vec: Social and Semantic Embeddings of YouTube Channels

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17298

Léopaul Boesinger

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Veniamin Veselovsky

Robert West

2023/6/29

Prevalence and prevention of large language model use in crowd work

arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.15683

Veniamin Veselovsky

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Philip Cozzolino

Andrew Gordon

David Rothschild

...

2023/10/24

Generating faithful synthetic data with large language models: A case study in computational social science

arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.15041

Veniamin Veselovsky

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Akhil Arora

Martin Josifoski

Ashton Anderson

...

2023/5/24

Exploiting asymmetry for synthetic training data generation: SynthIE and the case of information extraction

arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04132

Martin Josifoski

Marija Sakota

Maxime Peyrard

Robert West

2023/3/7

United States politicians’ tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns

Scientific Reports

Jonathan Külz

Andreas Spitz

Ahmad Abu-Akel

Stephan Günnemann

Robert West

2023/6/28

Protection from Evil and Good: The Differential Effects of Page Protection on Wikipedia Article Quality

arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.12696

Thorsten Ruprechter

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Robert West

Denis Helic

2023/10/19

Grammar-Constrained Decoding for Structured NLP Tasks without Finetuning

Saibo Geng

Martin Josifosky

Maxime Peyrard

Robert West

2023/5/23

Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users’ activity on fringe social media

PNAS nexus

Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Homa Hosseinmardi

Robert West

Duncan J Watts

2023/3/1

See List of Professors in Robert West University(École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Co-Authors

H-index: 147
Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec

Stanford University

H-index: 74
Joelle Pineau

Joelle Pineau

McGill University

H-index: 63
Doina Precup

Doina Precup

McGill University

H-index: 31
Ahmad Abu-Akel

Ahmad Abu-Akel

Université de Lausanne

H-index: 21
Ashton Anderson

Ashton Anderson

University of Toronto

H-index: 20
Michele Catasta

Michele Catasta

Stanford University

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