Smitha Milli

Researcher, Meta FAIR

Joined

October 2017

Names

Smitha Milli

Emails

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

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****@cornell.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Meta FAIR (meta.com)

2024 – Present

Postdoc

Cornell University (cornell.edu)

2022 – 2024

PhD student

University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2017 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Emma Pierson

2022 – 2024

Postdoc Advisor

Nikhil Garg

2022 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Moritz Hardt

2017 – 2022

PhD Advisor

Anca Dragan

2017 – 2022

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

CTRL-Rec: Controlling Recommender Systems With Natural Language
Micah Carroll, Addie Foote, Kevin Feng, Marcus Williams, Anca Dragan, W. Bradley Knox, Smitha Milli
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
What's In My Human Feedback? Learning Interpretable Descriptions of Preference Data
Rajiv Movva, Smitha Milli, Sewon Min, Emma Pierson
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Cultivating Pluralism In Algorithmic Monoculture: The Community Alignment Dataset
Lily H Zhang, Smitha Milli, Karen Long Jusko, Jonathan Smith, Brandon Amos, Wassim Bouaziz, Manon Revel, Jack Kussman, Yasha Sheynin, Lisa Titus, Bhaktipriya Radharapu, Jane Yu, Vidya Sarma, Kristopher Rose, Maximilian Nickel
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Cultivating Pluralism In Algorithmic Monoculture: The Community Alignment Dataset
Lily H Zhang, Smitha Milli, Karen Long Jusko, Jonathan Smith, Brandon Amos, Wassim Bouaziz, Jack Kussman, Manon Revel, Lisa Titus, Bhaktipriya Radharapu, Jane Yu, Vidya Sarma, Kristopher Rose, Maximilian Nickel
- MoFA Oral
- Readers: Everyone
CTRL-Rec: Controlling Recommender Systems With Natural Language
Micah Carroll, Adeline Foote, Marcus Williams, Anca Dragan, W. Bradley Knox, Smitha Milli
- ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Position: Democratic AI is Possible. The Democracy Levels Framework Shows How It Might Work.
Aviv Ovadya, Kyle Redman, Luke Thorburn, Quan Ze Chen, Oliver Smith, Flynn Devine, Andrew Konya, Smitha Milli, Manon Revel, Kevin Feng, Amy X Zhang, Bilva Chandra, Michiel A. Bakker, Atoosa Kasirzadeh
- ICML 2025 Position Paper Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere
Manon Revel, Smitha Milli, Tyler Lu, Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Maximilian Nickel
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Toward Democracy Levels for AI
Aviv Ovadya, Luke Thorburn, Kyle Redman, Flynn Devine, Smitha Milli, Manon Revel, Andrew Konya, Atoosa Kasirzadeh
- Pluralistic-Alignment 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Causal Inference Struggles with Agency on Online Platforms
Smitha Milli, Luca Belli, Moritz Hardt
- 2022 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- FAccT 2022
- Readers: Everyone
From Optimizing Engagement to Measuring Value
Smitha Milli, Luca Belli, Moritz Hardt
- 2021 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- FAccT 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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