Preventing Eviction-Caused Homelessness through ML-Informed Distribution of Rental Assistance

no code implementations • 19 Mar 2024 • Catalina Vajiac, Arun Frey, Joachim Baumann, Abigail Smith, Kasun Amarasinghe, Alice Lai, Kit Rodolfa, Rayid Ghani

Rental assistance programs provide individuals with financial assistance to prevent housing instabilities caused by evictions and avert homelessness.

Explainable Machine Learning for Public Policy: Use Cases, Gaps, and Research Directions

2 code implementations • 27 Oct 2020 • Kasun Amarasinghe, Kit Rodolfa, Hemank Lamba, Rayid Ghani

The contribution is 1) a methodology for explainable ML researchers to identify use cases and develop methods targeted at them and 2) using that methodology for the domain of public policy and giving an example for the researchers on developing explainable ML methods that result in real-world impact.

BIG-bench Machine Learning