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Record W112115809

Herbert west: deanonymizer

2011· article· en· W112115809 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAuthorship Attribution and Profiling
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnonymityComputer scienceSelection (genetic algorithm)Face (sociological concept)Quality (philosophy)Simple (philosophy)Internet privacyData scienceWorld Wide WebComputer securityArtificial intelligenceSociologyEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The vast majority of scientific journal, conference, and grant selection processes withhold the names of the reviewers from the original submitters, taking a bettersafe-than-sorry approach for maintaining collegiality within the small-world communities of academia. While the contents of a review may not color the long-term relationship between the submitter and the reviewer, it is best to not require us all to be saints. This paper raises the question of whether the assumption of reviewer anonymity still holds in the face of readily-available, high-quality machine learning toolkits. Our threat model focuses on how a member of a community might, over time, amass a large number of unblinded reviews by serving on a number of conference and grant selection committees. We show that with access to even a relatively small corpus of such reviews, simple classification techniques from existing toolkits successfully identify reviewers with reasonably high accuracy. We discuss the implications of the findings and describe some potential technical and policy-based countermeasures. 1

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.862
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.176 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations19
Published2011
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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