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Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
Episode 75, May 8, 2019- Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City, is a reinforcement learning expert who is working, in his own words, to solve machine learning. Rafah Hosn,…
In the news | Microsoft Research Webinar Series
Machine Learning and Fairness Webinar
In this webinar led by Microsoft researchers Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach, 15-year veterans of the machine learning field, you'll learn how to make detecting and mitigating biases a first-order priority in your development and deployment of ML systems.
In the news | TWiML
Fairness in Machine Learning with Hanna Wallach
Today we’re joined by Hanna Wallach, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Hanna and I really dig into how bias and a lack of interpretability and transparency show up across machine learning. We discuss the role that human biases, even…
Machine Learning for fair decisions
| Miro Dudík, John Langford, Hanna Wallach, and Alekh Agarwal
Over the past decade, machine learning systems have begun to play a key role in many high-stakes decisions: Who is interviewed for a job? Who is approved for a bank loan? Who receives parole? Who is admitted to a school?…
‘Contextual bandit’ breakthrough enables deeper personalization
| Miro Dudík
News portals that simultaneously personalize every part of the landing page for every visitor and mobile health apps that adaptively tweak every part of an exercise regimen to maximize the benefit of every user are becoming plausible due to an…