What does genius look like? Investigating brilliance bias in AI-generated images.

Margareta Ackerman

Juliana Shihadeh Margareta Ackerman David Loker What does genius look like? Investigating brilliance bias in AI-generated images. 2026 April 3121-3142 41 AI Soc. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02752-6 db/journals/ais/ais41.html#ShihadehAL26 streams/journals/ais

Kuakou Bossou Margareta Ackerman Creative Evaluators: When Machines Evaluate Us. 3 2026 February 44 New Gener. Comput. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-025-00302-8 db/journals/ngc/ngc44.html#BossouA26 streams/journals/ngc

Margareta Ackerman Daniel G. Brown 0001 Depictions of Jews in Large Generative Models. 342-347 2024 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/papers/ICCC24_paper_146.pdf conf/icccrea/2024 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2024.html#Ackerman024 Juliana Shihadeh Margareta Ackerman Female Professors Grow Beards: Gender Nonconformity in a Midjourney Occupational Analysis. 428-432 2024 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/papers/ICCC24_paper_194.pdf conf/icccrea/2024 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2024.html#ShihadehA24 Juliana Shihadeh Margareta Ackerman What Does Genius Look Like? An Analysis of Brilliance Bias in Text-to-Image Models. 235-244 2023 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc23/papers/ICCC-2023_paper_61.pdf conf/icccrea/2023 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2023.html#ShihadehA23 streams/conf/icccrea Juliana Shihadeh Margareta Ackerman Shattering Bias: A Path to Bridging the Gender Divide with Creative Machines. 278-282 2023 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc23/papers/ICCC-2023_paper_151.pdf conf/icccrea/2023 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2023.html#ShihadehA23a streams/conf/icccrea Lauryn Gayhardt Margareta Ackerman Lee Cheatley Fostering Mental Well-Being through Creative Interaction: An Assessment of SOVIA. 362-366 2023 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc23/papers/ICCC-2023_paper_152.pdf conf/icccrea/2023 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2023.html#GayhardtAC23 streams/conf/icccrea

Lee Cheatley Margareta Ackerman Alison Pease Wendy Moncur Musical creativity support tools for bereavement support. 1-17 2022 33 Digit. Creativity 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2022.2034648 db/journals/creativity/creativity33.html#CheatleyAPM22

Juliana Shihadeh Margareta Ackerman Ashley Troske Nicole Lawson Edith Gonzalez Brilliance Bias in GPT-3. 62-69 2022 GHTC https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910995 conf/ghtc/2022 db/conf/ghtc/ghtc2022.html#ShihadehATLG22 Alison Pease Margareta Ackerman Nic Pease Bernadette McFadden A Roadmap for Therapeutic Computational Creativity. 261-270 2022 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/papers/ICCC-2022_paper_26.pdf conf/icccrea/2022 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2022.html#PeaseAPM22

Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David Simina Brânzei David Loker Weighted clustering: Towards solving the user's dilemma. 108152 2021 120 Pattern Recognit. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108152 db/journals/pr/pr120.html#AckermanBBL21

Rafael Pérez y Pérez Margareta Ackerman Towards a Methodology for Field Work in Computational Creativity. 713-737 2020 38 New Gener. Comput. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-020-00105-z db/journals/ngc/ngc38.html#PerezA20

Lee Cheatley Margareta Ackerman Alison Pease Wendy Moncur Co-Creative Songwriting for Bereavement Support. 33-40 2020 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/papers/053-iccc20.pdf conf/icccrea/2020 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2020.html#CheatleyAPM20 Jun Chang Margareta Ackerman A Climate Change Educational Creator. 77-80 2020 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/papers/135-iccc20.pdf conf/icccrea/2020 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2020.html#ChangA20 Juliana Shihadeh Margareta Ackerman EMILY: An Emily Dickinson Machine. 243-246 2020 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/papers/134-iccc20.pdf conf/icccrea/2020 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2020.html#ShihadehA20 Christopher Cassion Yuhang Qian Constant Bossou Margareta Ackerman Investors Embrace Gender Diversity, Not Female CEOs: The Role of Gender in Startup Fundraising. 145-164 2020 INTETAIN https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_10 conf/intetain/2020 db/conf/intetain/intetain2020.html#CassionQBA20

Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira Tiago Mendes Ana Boavida Ai Nakamura Margareta Ackerman Co-PoeTryMe: Interactive poetry generation. 199-216 2019 54 Cogn. Syst. Res. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.11.012 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128740729 db/journals/cogsr/cogsr54.html#OliveiraMBNA19

Andreas Adolfsson Margareta Ackerman Naomi C. Brownstein To cluster, or not to cluster: An analysis of clusterability methods. 13-26 2019 88 Pattern Recognit. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2018.10.026 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61821602 db/journals/pr/pr88.html#AdolfssonAB19

Margareta Ackerman Rafael Pérez y Pérez Field Work in Computational Creativity. 236-242 2019 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2019/papers/iccc19-paper-33.pdf conf/icccrea/2019 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2019.html#AckermanP19 Rachel Goldstein Andy Vainauskas Margareta Ackerman Robert M. Keller MindMusic: Brain-Controlled Musical Improvisation. 282-285 2019 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2019/papers/iccc19-lbp-11.pdf conf/icccrea/2019 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2019.html#GoldsteinVAK19 James Morgan Margareta Ackerman Christopher Cassion Co-Creative Conceptual Art. 1-8 2018 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2018/sites/default/files/papers/IICCC_2018_paper_4.pdf conf/icccrea/2018 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2018.html#MorganAC18

Andreas Adolfsson Margareta Ackerman N. C. Brownstein To Cluster, or Not to Cluster: An Analysis of Clusterability Methods. 2018 abs/1808.08317 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08317 db/journals/corr/corr1808.html#abs-1808-08317

Margareta Ackerman Simina Brânzei The authorship dilemma: alphabetical or contribution? 1077-1093 2017 31 Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst. 5 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-016-9351-7 db/journals/aamas/aamas31.html#AckermanB17

Margareta Ackerman David Loker Algorithmic Songwriting with ALYSIA. 1-16 2017 EvoMUSART https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55750-2_1 conf/evoW/2017musart db/conf/evoW/evomusart2017.html#AckermanL17 Margareta Ackerman Ashok K. Goel 0001 Colin G. Johnson Anna Jordanous Carlos León 0002 Rafael Pérez y Pérez Hannu Toivonen Dan Ventura Teaching Computational Creativity. 9-16 2017 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2017/ICCC_17_accepted_submissions/ICCC-17_paper_8.pdf conf/icccrea/2017 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2017.html#Ackerman0JJLPTV17 Divya Singh Margareta Ackerman Rafael Pérez y Pérez A Ballad of the Mexicas: Automated Lyrical Narrative Writing. 229-236 2017 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2017/ICCC_17_accepted_submissions/ICCC-17_paper_16.pdf conf/icccrea/2017 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2017.html#SinghAP17 Amit Dhurandhar Margareta Ackerman Xiang Wang Uncovering Group Level Insights with Accordant Clustering. 228-236 2017 SDM https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974973.26 conf/sdm/2017 db/conf/sdm/sdm2017.html#DhurandharAW17

Amit Dhurandhar Margareta Ackerman Xiang Wang Uncovering Group Level Insights with Accordant Clustering. 2017 abs/1704.02378 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02378 db/journals/corr/corr1704.html#DhurandharAW17

Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David A Characterization of Linkage-Based Hierarchical Clustering. 232:1-232:17 2016 17 J. Mach. Learn. Res. https://jmlr.org/papers/v17/11-198.html db/journals/jmlr/jmlr17.html#AckermanB16

Taylor Brockhoeft Jennifer Petuch James Bach Emil Djerekarov Margareta Ackerman Gary S. Tyson Interactive Augmented Reality for Dance. 396-403 2016 ICCC https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Interactive-Augmented-Reality-for-Dance.pdf conf/icccrea/2016 db/conf/icccrea/icccrea2016.html#BrockhoeftPBDAT16 Jarrod Moore Margareta Ackerman Foundations of Perturbation Robust Clustering. 1089-1094 2016 ICDM https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2016.0141 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDM.2016.0141 conf/icdm/2016 db/conf/icdm/icdm2016.html#MooreA16

Margareta Ackerman Jarrod Moore When is Clustering Perturbation Robust? 2016 abs/1601.05900 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05900 db/journals/corr/corr1601.html#AckermanM16

Margareta Ackerman Andreas Adolfsson Naomi Brownstein An Effective and Efficient Approach for Clusterability Evaluation. 2016 abs/1602.06687 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06687 db/journals/corr/corr1602.html#AckermanAB16

Margareta Ackerman David Loker Algorithmic Songwriting with ALYSIA. 2016 abs/1612.01058 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01058 db/journals/corr/corr1612.html#AckermanL16

Margareta Ackerman Daniel G. Brown 0001 David Loker Effects of rooting via out-groups on in-group topology in phylogeny. 426-446 2014 10 Int. J. Bioinform. Res. Appl. 4/5 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBRA.2014.062993 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45853844 db/journals/ijbra/ijbra10.html#AckermanBL14

Margareta Ackerman Simina Brânzei The authorship dilemma: alphabetical or contribution? 1487-1488 2014 AAMAS http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2616025 conf/atal/2014 db/conf/atal/aamas2014.html#AckermanB14 Margareta Ackerman Sanjoy Dasgupta Incremental Clustering: The Case for Extra Clusters. 307-315 2014 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2014/hash/be83ab3ecd0db773eb2dc1b0a17836a1-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5608-incremental-clustering-the-case-for-extra-clusters conf/nips/2014 db/conf/nips/nips2014.html#AckermanD14

Margareta Ackerman Sanjoy Dasgupta Incremental Clustering: The Case for Extra Clusters. 2014 abs/1406.6398 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6398 db/journals/corr/corr1406.html#AckermanD14

Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David David Loker Sivan Sabato Clustering Oligarchies. 66-74 2013 AISTATS http://proceedings.mlr.press/v31/ackerman13a.html conf/aistats/2013 db/conf/aistats/aistats2013.html#AckermanBLS13 Hossein Vahabi Margareta Ackerman David Loker Ricardo Baeza-Yates Alejandro López-Ortiz Orthogonal query recommendation. 33-40 2013 RecSys https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507159 conf/recsys/2013 db/conf/recsys/recsys2013.html#VahabiALBL13 Margareta Ackerman Towards Theoretical Foundations of Clustering. 2012 University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada https://hdl.handle.net/10012/6824 https://www.base-search.net/Record/6a5d9e5d01cef02cce3eb2eac850978dccd6a80a0bc9558abb6e4cba73ae346f base-search.net (ftunivwaterloo:oai:uwspace.uwaterloo.ca:10012/6824) Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David Simina Brânzei David Loker Weighted Clustering. 2012 AAAI https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v26i1.8282 conf/aaai/2012 db/conf/aaai/aaai2012.html#AckermanBBL12 858-863 Joshua M. Lewis Margareta Ackerman Virginia R. de Sa Human Cluster Evaluation and Formal Quality Measures: A Comparative Study. 2012 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rr3t8dx conf/cogsci/2012 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2012.html#LewisAS12 Margareta Ackerman Dan Brown 0001 David Loker Effects of rooting via outgroups on ingroup topology in phylogeny. 1-7 2012 ICCABS https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCABS.2012.6182626 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICCABS.2012.6182626 conf/iccabs/2012 db/conf/iccabs/iccabs2012.html#AckermanBL12

Margareta Ackerman Simina Brânzei Research Quality, Fairness, and Authorship Order http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3391 2012 CoRR abs/1208.3391 db/journals/corr/corr1208.html#abs-1208-3391

Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David Discerning Linkage-Based Algorithms among Hierarchical Clustering Methods. 1140-1145 2011 IJCAI https://doi.org/10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-195 conf/ijcai/2011 db/conf/ijcai/ijcai2011.html#AckermanB11

Margareta Ackerman David Loker Alejandro López-Ortiz Orthogonal Query Expansion http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0530 2011 CoRR abs/1109.0530 db/journals/corr/corr1109.html#abs-1109-0530

Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David Simina Brânzei David Loker Weighted Clustering http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1844 2011 CoRR abs/1109.1844 db/journals/corr/corr1109.html#abs-1109-1844

Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David David Loker Characterization of Linkage-based Clustering. 270-281 2010 COLT http://colt2010.haifa.il.ibm.com/papers/COLT2010proceedings.pdf#page=278 conf/colt/2010 db/conf/colt/colt2010.html#AckermanBL10 Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David David Loker Towards Property-Based Classification of Clustering Paradigms. 10-18 2010 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2010/hash/f93882cbd8fc7fb794c1011d63be6fb6-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4101-towards-property-based-classification-of-clustering-paradigms conf/nips/2010 db/conf/nips/nips2010.html#AckermanBL10

Margareta Ackerman Jeffrey O. Shallit Efficient enumeration of words in regular languages. 3461-3470 2009 410 Theor. Comput. Sci. 37 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2009.03.018 db/journals/tcs/tcs410.html#AckermanS09

Margareta Ackerman Erkki Mäkinen Three New Algorithms for Regular Language Enumeration. 178-191 2009 COCOON https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02882-3_19 conf/cocoon/2009 db/conf/cocoon/cocoon2009.html#AckermanM09 Margareta Ackerman Shai Ben-David Clusterability: A Theoretical Study. 1-8 AISTATS 2009 conf/aistats/2009 http://proceedings.mlr.press/v5/ackerman09a.html db/journals/jmlr/jmlrp5.html#AckermanB09 Shai Ben-David Margareta Ackerman Measures of Clustering Quality: A Working Set of Axioms for Clustering. 121-128 2008 NIPS https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2008/hash/beed13602b9b0e6ecb5b568ff5058f07-Abstract.html http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3491-measures-of-clustering-quality-a-working-set-of-axioms-for-clustering conf/nips/2008 db/conf/nips/nips2008.html#Ben-DavidA08 Margareta Ackerman Jeffrey O. Shallit Efficient Enumeration of Regular Languages. 226-242 2007 conf/wia/2007 CIAA https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76336-9_22 db/conf/wia/ciaa2007.html#AckermanS07 Andreas Adolfsson James Bach Ricardo Baeza-Yates Shai Ben-David Ana Boavida Constant Bossou Kuakou Bossou Simina Brânzei Taylor Brockhoeft Dan Brown 0001Daniel G. Brown 0001 Naomi C. BrownsteinN. C. BrownsteinNaomi Brownstein Christopher Cassion Jun Chang Lee Cheatley Sanjoy Dasgupta Amit Dhurandhar Emil Djerekarov Lauryn Gayhardt Ashok K. Goel 0001 Rachel Goldstein Edith Gonzalez Colin G. Johnson Anna Jordanous Robert M. Keller Nicole Lawson Carlos León 0002 Joshua M. Lewis David Loker Alejandro López-Ortiz Erkki Mäkinen Bernadette McFadden Tiago Mendes Wendy Moncur Jarrod Moore James Morgan Ai Nakamura Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira Alison Pease Nic Pease Rafael Pérez y Pérez Jennifer Petuch Yuhang Qian Virginia R. de Sa Sivan Sabato Jeffrey O. Shallit Juliana Shihadeh Divya Singh Hannu Toivonen Ashley Troske Gary S. Tyson Puya VahabiHossein Vahabi Andy Vainauskas Dan Ventura Xiang Wang