Search Results for author: Allison Koenecke

Found 8 papers, 3 papers with code

Auditing Cross-Cultural Consistency of Human-Annotated Labels for Recommendation Systems

1 code implementation10 May 2023 Rock Yuren Pang, Jack Cenatempo, Franklyn Graham, Bridgette Kuehn, Maddy Whisenant, Portia Botchway, Katie Stone Perez, Allison Koenecke

Recommendation systems increasingly depend on massive human-labeled datasets; however, the human annotators hired to generate these labels increasingly come from homogeneous backgrounds.

Recommendation Systems

Federated Causal Inference in Heterogeneous Observational Data

1 code implementation25 Jul 2021 Ruoxuan Xiong, Allison Koenecke, Michael Powell, Zhu Shen, Joshua T. Vogelstein, Susan Athey

We are interested in estimating the effect of a treatment applied to individuals at multiple sites, where data is stored locally for each site.

Causal Inference

Synthetic Data Generation for Economists

no code implementations2 Nov 2020 Allison Koenecke, Hal Varian

As more tech companies engage in rigorous economic analyses, we are confronted with a data problem: in-house papers cannot be replicated due to use of sensitive, proprietary, or private data.

Synthetic Data Generation

Curriculum Learning in Deep Neural Networks for Financial Forecasting

no code implementations29 Apr 2019 Allison Koenecke, Amita Gajewar

We compare our models' performance to the ensemble model of traditional statistics and machine learning techniques currently used by Microsoft Finance.

Time Series Time Series Forecasting +1

Learning Twitter User Sentiments on Climate Change with Limited Labeled Data

no code implementations15 Apr 2019 Allison Koenecke, Jordi Feliu-Fabà

While it is well-documented that climate change accepters and deniers have become increasingly polarized in the United States over time, there has been no large-scale examination of whether these individuals are prone to changing their opinions as a result of natural external occurrences.

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