Fairness, Explainability, and Accountability for Machine Learning
The course is focused on the ethical implications of applying Big Data and ML tools to socially-sensitive domains, and will present a tool-box of technical solutions for addressing these issues. VVZ Information is available here.Announcements
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Contact
| Instructor | Dr. Hoda Heidari |
| TAs | Charlotte Bunne and Thomas Langerak |
Lectures and Office Hours
| Lectures | Wed 9-11 | CAB G 59 |
| Office hours | Tue 9-11 | CAB F 63.2 |
Syllabus
| Date | Session 1 | Session 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 20.2. | Introduction | Sources of Unfairness |
| Wed 27.2. | Statistical Notions of Fairness | Individual Notions of Fairness |
| Wed 6.3. | Fairness Mechanisms | Tradeoffs and Impossibilities |
| Wed 13.3. | Counterfactual Fairness | Long-term Algorithmic Impact |
| Wed 20.3. | Explainability (global methods) | Explainability (local methods) |
| Wed 27.3. | Governance and Accountability | Misc. |
| Wed 3.4. | Midterm Exam | |
| Wed 10.4. | Data Pre-processing Methods | Software Tools for Fairness |
| Wed 17.4. | Fair Feature Selection | Fairness in Representations |
| Wed 8.5. | Bias in Natural Language Processing | Combining Human and Machine Decisions |
| Wed 15.5. | Preference-based Notions of Fairness | Welfare and Risk |
| Wed 22.5. | Feedback Loops | Intersectionality and Fairness Gerrymandering |
| Wed 29.5. | Fairness for and through Voting | Fairness for Ranking and Recommendation Systems |
Projects
Information about course projects can be found here. The project-to-team assignments can be found here. The deadline for project reports is June 6th. The LaTeX template for presentation slides can be found here. The LaTeX template for project reports can be found here.Performance Assessment
The final grade will be computed based on:- 30% written mid-term exam
- 60% project (40% written report + 20% class presentation)
- 10% participation in class discussions (10%)