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Many internet applications are powered by machine learned models, which are usually trained on labeled datasets obtained through either implicit / explicit user feedback signals or human judgments. Since societal biases may be present in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sriram Vasudevan , Krishnaram Kenthapadi

This paper details the machine learning (ML) journey of a group of people focused on software testing. It tells the story of how this group progressed through a ML workflow (similar to the CRISP-DM process). This workflow consists of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Michael Cohoon , Debbie Furman

In today's world, we need to ensure that AI systems are fair and unbiased. Our study looked at tools designed to test the fairness of software to see if they are practical and easy for software developers to use. We found that while some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Thanh Nguyen , Luiz Fernando de Lima , Maria Teresa Badassarre , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in high-stakes applications impacting society. Therefore, it is of critical importance that ML models do not propagate discrimination. Collecting accurate labeled data in societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Hadis Anahideh , Abolfazl Asudeh , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Data-driven software solutions have significantly been used in critical domains with significant socio-economic, legal, and ethical implications. The rapid adoptions of data-driven solutions, however, pose major threats to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Normen Yu , Luciana Carreon , Gang Tan , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly deployed to make critical decisions in socioeconomic applications such as finance, criminal justice, and autonomous driving. However, due to their data-driven and pattern-seeking nature, ML…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Verya Monjezi , Ashish Kumar , Ashutosh Trivedi , Gang Tan , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

This paper investigates the parameter space of machine learning (ML) algorithms in aggravating or mitigating fairness bugs. Data-driven software is increasingly applied in social-critical applications where ensuring fairness is of paramount…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Ashish Kumar , Gang Tan , Ashutosh Trivedi

Nowadays, intelligent systems and services are getting increasingly popular as they provide data-driven solutions to diverse real-world problems, thanks to recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Md Saidur Rahman , Foutse Khomh , Alaleh Hamidi , Jinghui Cheng , Giuliano Antoniol , Hironori Washizaki

Software organizations are increasingly incorporating machine learning (ML) into their product offerings, driving a need for new data management tools. Many of these tools facilitate the initial development of ML applications, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shreya Shankar , Aditya Parameswaran

This thesis explores open-sourced machine learning (ML) model explanation tools to understand whether these tools can allow a layman to visualize, understand, and suggest intuitive remedies to unfairness in ML-based decision-support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Normen Yu , Gang Tan , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Despite recent progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning, many state-of-the-art methods suffer from a lack of explainability and transparency. The ability to interpret the predictions made by machine learning models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Zihan Wang , Jialin Lu , Oliver Snow , Martin Ester

AI is increasingly playing a pivotal role in businesses and organizations, impacting the outcomes and interests of human users. Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) streamlines the machine learning model development process by automating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan

As Machine Learning (ML) gains adoption across industries and new use cases, practitioners increasingly realize the challenges around effectively developing and iterating on ML systems: reproducibility, debugging, scalability, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jacopo Tagliabue , Hugo Bowne-Anderson , Ville Tuulos , Savin Goyal , Romain Cledat , David Berg

Machine learning (ML) has become a ubiquitous tool across various domains of data mining and big data analysis. The efficacy of ML models depends heavily on high-quality datasets, which are often complicated by the presence of missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Abu Fuad Ahmad , Md Shohel Sayeed , Khaznah Alshammari , Istiaque Ahmed

We present the LM Transparency Tool (LM-TT), an open-source interactive toolkit for analyzing the internal workings of Transformer-based language models. Differently from previously existing tools that focus on isolated parts of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Igor Tufanov , Karen Hambardzumyan , Javier Ferrando , Elena Voita

This paper discusses modern Auto Machine Learning (AutoML) tools from the perspective of a person with little prior experience in Machine Learning (ML). There are many AutoML tools both ready-to-use and under development, which are created…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Oleg Bezrukavnikov , Rhema Linder

While algorithmic fairness is a thriving area of research, in practice, mitigating issues of bias often gets reduced to enforcing an arbitrarily chosen fairness metric, either by enforcing fairness constraints during the optimization step,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Emily Black , Rakshit Naidu , Rayid Ghani , Kit T. Rodolfa , Daniel E. Ho , Hoda Heidari

In this paper, we present a visual analytics tool for enabling hypothesis-based evaluation of machine learning (ML) models. We describe a novel ML-testing framework that combines the traditional statistical hypothesis testing (commonly used…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Qianwen Wang , William Alexander , Jack Pegg , Huamin Qu , Min Chen

Language models (LMs) are powerful yet mostly for text generation tasks. Tools have substantially enhanced their performance for tasks that require complex skills. However, many works adopt the term "tool" in different ways, raising the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhiruo Wang , Zhoujun Cheng , Hao Zhu , Daniel Fried , Graham Neubig

Given the inherent non-deterministic nature of machine learning (ML) systems, their behavior in production environments can lead to unforeseen and potentially dangerous outcomes. For a timely detection of unwanted behavior and to prevent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hira Naveed , John Grundy , Chetan Arora , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Omar Haggag