Data Skeptic
Consensus Voting
Mashbat Suzuki joins us to discuss the paper How Many Freemasons Are There? The Consensus Voting Mechanism in Metric Spaces. Check out Mashbat’s and many other great talks at the 13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2020) ... [more]
Fraud Detection in Real Time
In this solo episode, Kyle overviews the field of fraud detection with eCommerce as a use case. He discusses some of the techniques and system architectures used by companies to fight fraud with a focus on why these things need to be approached from a real-time perspective. ... [more]
Listener Survey Review
In this episode, Kyle and Linhda review the results of our recent survey. Hear all about the demographic details and how we interpret these results. ... [more]
Human Computer Interaction and Online Privacy
Moses Namara from the HATLab joins us to discuss his research into the interaction between privacy and human-computer interaction. ... [more]
Authorship Attribution of Lennon McCartney Songs
Mark Glickman joins us to discuss the paper Data in the Life: Authorship Attribution in Lennon-McCartney Songs. ... [more]
GANs Can Be Interpretable
Erik Härkönen joins us to discuss the paper GANSpace: Discovering Interpretable GAN Controls. During the interview, Kyle makes reference to this amazing interpretable GAN controls video and it’s accompanying codebase found here. Erik mentions the GANspace collab notebook which is a rapid way to try these ideas out for yourself. ... [more]
Sentiment Preserving Fake Reviews
David Ifeoluwa Adelani joins us to discuss Generating Sentiment-Preserving Fake Online Reviews Using Neural Language Models and Their Human- and Machine-based Detection. ... [more]
Interpretability Practitioners
Sungsoo Ray Hong joins us to discuss the paper Human Factors in Model Interpretability: Industry Practices, Challenges, and Needs. ... [more]
Facial Recognition Auditing
Deb Raji joins us to discuss her recent publication Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing. ... [more]
Robust Fit to Nature
Uri Hasson joins us this week to discuss the paper Robust-fit to Nature: An Evolutionary Perspective on Biological (and Artificial) Neural Networks. ... [more]
Black Boxes Are Not Required
Deep neural networks are undeniably effective. They rely on such a high number of parameters, that they are appropriately described as “black boxes”. While black boxes lack desirably properties like interpretability and explainability, in some cases, their accuracy makes them incredibly useful. But does achiving “usefulness” require a black box? Can we be sure an equally valid but simpler solution does not exist? Cynthia Rudin helps us answer that question. We discuss her recent paper with co-author Joanna Radin titled (spoiler warning)… Why Are We Using Black Box Models in AI When We Don’t Need To? A Lesson From An Explainable AI Competition ... [more]
Robustness to Unforeseen Adversarial Attacks
Daniel Kang joins us to discuss the paper Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries. ... [more]
Estimating the Size of Language Acquisition
Frank Mollica joins us to discuss the paper Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition ... [more]
Interpretable AI in Healthcare
Jayaraman Thiagarajan joins us to discuss the recent paper Calibrating Healthcare AI: Towards Reliable and Interpretable Deep Predictive Models. ... [more]
Understanding Neural Networks
What does it mean to understand a neural network? That’s the question posted on this arXiv paper. Kyle speaks with Tim Lillicrap about this and several other big questions. ... [more]
Self-Explaining AI
Dan Elton joins us to discuss self-explaining AI. What could be better than an interpretable model? How about a model wich explains itself in a conversational way, engaging in a back and forth with the user. We discuss the paper Self-explaining AI as an alternative to interpretable AI which presents a framework for self-explainging AI. ... [more]
Plastic Bag Bans
Becca Taylor joins us to discuss her work studying the impact of plastic bag bans as published in Bag Leakage: The Effect of Disposable Carryout Bag Regulations on Unregulated Bags from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. How does one measure the impact of these bans? Are they achieving their intended goals? Join us and find out! ... [more]
Self Driving Cars and Pedestrians
We are joined by Arash Kalatian to discuss Decoding pedestrian and automated vehicle interactions using immersive virtual reality and interpretable deep learning. ... [more]
Computer Vision is Not Perfect
Computer Vision is not Perfect Julia Evans joins us help answer the question why do neural networks think a panda is a vulture. Kyle talks to Julia about her hands-on work fooling neural networks. Julia runs Wizard Zines which publishes works such as Your Linux Toolbox. You can find her on Twitter @b0rk ... [more]
Uncertainty Representations
Jessica Hullman joins us to share her expertise on data visualization and communication of data in the media. We discuss Jessica’s work on visualizing uncertainty, interviewing visualization designers on why they don't visualize uncertainty, and modeling interactions with visualizations as Bayesian updates. Homepage: http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jhullman/ Lab: MU Collective ... [more]
AlphaGo, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, and New Data Set
George led a discussion about AlphaGo - The Movie | Full Documentary. Lan informed us about the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset. Kyle shared some thoughts about the paper Beyond R_0: the importance of contact tracing when predicting epidemics. ... [more]
Interpretability Tooling
Pramit Choudhary joins us to talk about the methodologies and tools used to assist with model interpretability. ... [more]
Shapley Values
Kyle and Linhda discuss how Shapley Values might be a good tool for determining what makes the cut for a home renovation. ... [more]
Anchors as Explanations
We welcome back Marco Tulio Ribeiro to discuss research he has done since our original discussion on LIME. In particular, we ask the question Are Red Roses Red? and discuss how Anchors provide high precision model-agnostic explanations. Please take our listener survey. ... [more]
Adversarial Explanations
Walt Woods joins us to discuss his paper Adversarial Explanations for Understanding Image Classification Decisions and Improved Neural Network Robustness with co-authors Jack Chen and Christof Teuscher. ... [more]
ObjectNet
Andrei Barbu joins us to discuss ObjectNet - a new kind of vision dataset. In contrast to ImageNet, ObjectNet seeks to provide images that are more representative of the types of images an autonomous machine is likely to encounter in the real world. Collecting a dataset in this way required careful use of Mechanical Turk to get Turkers to provide a corpus of images that removes some of the bias found in ImageNet. http://0xab.com/ ... [more]
Visualization and Interpretability
Enrico Bertini joins us to discuss how data visualization can be used to help make machine learning more interpretable and explainable. Find out more about Enrico at http://enrico.bertini.io/. More from Enrico with co-host Moritz Stefaner on the Data Stories podcast! ... [more]
Interpretable One Shot Learning
We welcome Su Wang back to Data Skeptic to discuss the paper Distributional modeling on a diet: One-shot word learning from text only. ... [more]
Fooling Computer Vision
Wiebe van Ranst joins us to talk about a project in which specially designed printed images can fool a computer vision system, preventing it from identifying a person. Their attack targets the popular YOLO2 pre-trained image recognition model, and thus, is likely to be widely applicable. ... [more]
Algorithmic Fairness
This episode includes an interview with Aaron Roth author of The Ethical Algorithm. ... [more]
Interpretability
Interpretability Machine learning has shown a rapid expansion into every sector and industry. With increasing reliance on models and increasing stakes for the decisions of models, questions of how models actually work are becoming increasingly important to ask. Welcome to Data Skeptic Interpretability. In this episode, Kyle interviews Christoph Molnar about his book Interpretable Machine Learning. Thanks to our sponsor, the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit going on in Grapevine, TX on March 23 – 26, 2020. Use discount code: dataskeptic. Music Our new theme song is #5 by Big D and the Kids Table. Incidental music by Tanuki Suit Riot. ... [more]