no code implementations • 21 Feb 2024 • Yuying Zhao, Minghua Xu, Huiyuan Chen, Yuzhong Chen, Yiwei Cai, Rashidul Islam, Yu Wang, Tyler Derr
Recommender systems (RSs) have gained widespread applications across various domains owing to the superior ability to capture users' interests.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2022 • Rashidul Islam, SHimei Pan, James R. Foulds
It is now well understood that machine learning models, trained on data without due care, often exhibit unfair and discriminatory behavior against certain populations.
no code implementations • 29 Apr 2022 • Tasnim Niger, Hasanur Rayhan, Rashidul Islam, Kazi Asif Abdullah Noor, Kamrul Hasan
On the other hand, people are stressed, becoming more anxious during COVID-19 pandemic situation and exhibits symptoms of behavioral disorder.
no code implementations • 13 Jun 2021 • Clarice Wang, Kathryn Wang, Andrew Bian, Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, James Foulds, SHimei Pan
In other words, our results demonstrate we cannot fully address the gender bias issue in AI recommendations without addressing the gender bias in humans.
1 code implementation • 18 Apr 2021 • Ziqian Zeng, Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, James Foulds, Yangqiu Song, SHimei Pan
Recently, much attention has been paid to the societal impact of AI, especially concerns regarding its fairness.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2020 • Kamrun Naher Keya, Rashidul Islam, SHimei Pan, Ian Stockwell, James R. Foulds
Healthcare programs such as Medicaid provide crucial services to vulnerable populations, but due to limited resources, many of the individuals who need these services the most languish on waiting lists.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2020 • Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, Ziqian Zeng, SHimei Pan, James Foulds
A growing proportion of human interactions are digitized on social media platforms and subjected to algorithmic decision-making, and it has become increasingly important to ensure fair treatment from these algorithms.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2019 • Rashidul Islam, James Foulds
In this paper, we develop an online inference algorithm for topic models which leverages stochasticity to scale well in the number of documents, sparsity to scale well in the number of topics, and which operates in the collapsed representation of the topic model for improved accuracy and run-time performance.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2018 • James Foulds, Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Keya, SHimei Pan
Intersectionality is a framework that analyzes how interlocking systems of power and oppression affect individuals along overlapping dimensions including race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability.
2 code implementations • 22 Jul 2018 • James Foulds, Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, SHimei Pan
We propose definitions of fairness in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that are informed by the framework of intersectionality, a critical lens arising from the Humanities literature which analyzes how interlocking systems of power and oppression affect individuals along overlapping dimensions including gender, race, sexual orientation, class, and disability.