Leveraging Semi-Supervised Learning for Fairness using Neural Networks

no code implementations • 31 Dec 2019 • Vahid Noroozi, Sara Bahaadini, Samira Sheikhi, Nooshin Mojab, Philip S. Yu

There has been a growing concern about the fairness of decision-making systems based on machine learning.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Decision Making +1

Practical Newton-Type Distributed Learning using Gradient Based Approximations

no code implementations • 22 Jul 2019 • Samira Sheikhi

We study how using different iterative methods affect the behavior of the algorithm and try to provide an appropriate tradeoff between the amount of local computation and the required amount of communication.

Second-order methods Vocal Bursts Type Prediction