no code implementations • 7 Aug 2023 • Ron Nafshi, Maggie Makar
We show that under $\epsilon$-contamination, the typical estimate of the MMD is unreliable.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2023 • Emily Mu, John Guttag, Maggie Makar
Given a similarity metric, contrastive methods learn a representation in which examples that are similar are pushed together and examples that are dissimilar are pulled apart.
2 code implementations • 2 May 2023 • Shengpu Tang, Maggie Makar, Michael W. Sjoding, Finale Doshi-Velez, Jenna Wiens
We study the theoretical properties of our approach, identifying scenarios where it is guaranteed to lead to zero bias when used to approximate the Q-function.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2022 • Chinmaya Kausik, Yangyi Lu, Kevin Tan, Maggie Makar, Yixin Wang, Ambuj Tewari
Evaluating and optimizing policies in the presence of unobserved confounders is a problem of growing interest in offline reinforcement learning.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2022 • Maggie Makar, Alexander D'Amour
Robustness to distribution shift and fairness have independently emerged as two important desiderata required of modern machine learning models.
1 code implementation • 13 May 2021 • Maggie Makar, Ben Packer, Dan Moldovan, Davis Blalock, Yoni Halpern, Alexander D'Amour
Shortcut learning, in which models make use of easy-to-represent but unstable associations, is a major failure mode for robust machine learning.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Maggie Makar, Lauren West, David Hooper, Eric Horvitz, Erica Shenoy, John Guttag
In this work we ask: can we build reliable infection prediction models when the observed data is collected under limited, and biased testing that prioritizes testing symptomatic individuals?
no code implementations • ICML 2020 • Maggie Makar, Fredrik D. Johansson, John Guttag, David Sontag
Estimation of individual treatment effects is commonly used as the basis for contextual decision making in fields such as healthcare, education, and economics.
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2017 • Maggie Makar, Marzyeh Ghassemi, David Cutler, Ziad Obermeyer
Risk prediction is central to both clinical medicine and public health.