Communications of the ACM
Finding the Fairness in AI
Algorithmic fairness is more or less obtainable, depending on how you measure it.
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Unpacking Black-Box Models
A mathematical framework aims to quantify and evaluate the understandability of a machine learning model's explanations for its predictions.
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Predicting Others' Behavior on the Road With Artificial Intelligence
A new machine learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists in real-time.
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Engineers Use AI to Capture Complexity of Breaking Waves
An international research team lleveraged machine learning to model how waves break, which could help improve the design of offshore structures and climate prediction...
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An Easier Way to Teach Robots New Skills
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine learning method that enables robots to acquire new skills using a handful of human examples...
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Estimating the Informativeness of Data
MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.
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Does This AI Think Like a Human?
Scientists have developed the Shared Interest method for rapidly analyzing a machine learning model's behavior by evaluating its individual explanations.
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Solving the Challenges of Robotic Pizza-Making
Researchers have created an architecture for a robotic manipulation system that could teach robots to handle pizza dough.
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Fighting Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
To help combat discrimination in mortgage lending, a new process can remove bias from the data used to train machine learning models.
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A Tool for Predicting the Future
A group of researchers has developed a system that allows nonexperts to generate predictions in just a few seconds.
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Making Quantum Circuits More Robust
A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a framework to make quantum circuits more resilient to noise.
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Injecting Fairness into ML Models
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
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A Security Technique to Fool Would-Be Cyberattackers
A new technique to prevent memory timing side-channel attacks by malware exploits memory hardware common to multiple programs running on the same computer.
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Toward a Stronger Defense of Personal Data
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed an integrated circuit chip that can thwart power side-channel attacks using less energy than...
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AI System Rapidly Predicts How Two Proteins Will Attach
An artificial intelligence model can forecast the binding configuration of two proteins.
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A New Language for Quantum Computing
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
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ML Speeds Up Vehicle Routing
A new machine learning approach could speed up vehicle routing algorithms, which tend to slow down when applied to large urban datasets.
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ML Flags Remedies That Might Do More Harm Than Good
Scientists designed a machine learning model to identify medical treatments that could pose greater potential danger than alternatives.
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Tiny ML Design Alleviates Bottleneck in Memory Usage on IoT Devices
Researchers come up with a machine learning method to reduce the amount of memory required for Internet of Things devices.
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Machines That See the World More Like Humans Do
The 3D Scene Perception via Probabilistic Programming system helps machines perceive the world in a more human-like manner.
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