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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act

FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value...

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store

FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the...

Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias
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Technical Perspective: The Impact of Auditing for Algorithmic Bias

"Actionable Auditing Revisited," by Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Joy Buolamwini, examines how companies producing commercial facial classification software responded...

Actionable Auditing Revisited
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Actionable Auditing Revisited: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products

This paper investigates the commercial impact of Gender Shades, the first algorithmic audit of gender- and skin-type performance disparities in commercial facial...

Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness
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Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness

We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.

Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?
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Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?

In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair...

Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language
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Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language

"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on...

Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics
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Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics

In this work, we introduce the problem of visualization search and highlight two underlying challenges of search enumeration and visualization matching.

Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
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Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging

"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact...

On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
From Communications of the ACM

On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation

This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing...
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