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most citedBias in Machine Learning Software: Why? How? What to do?

184 citations · 399 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2022★ 2 cited

When Less is More: On the Value of "Co-training" for Semi-Supervised Software Defect Predictors

Suvodeep Majumder, Joymallya Chakraborty, Tim Menzies

Labeling a module defective or non-defective is an expensive task. Hence, there are often limits on how much-labeled data is available for training. Semi-supervised classifiers use…

cs.SE2021★ 9 cited

Fair-SSL: Building fair ML Software with less data

Joymallya Chakraborty, Suvodeep Majumder, Huy Tu

Ethical bias in machine learning models has become a matter of concern in the software engineering community. Most of the prior software engineering works concentrated on finding e…

cs.SE2020★ 28 cited

Making Fair ML Software using Trustworthy Explanation

Joymallya Chakraborty, Kewen Peng, Tim Menzies

Machine learning software is being used in many applications (finance, hiring, admissions, criminal justice) having a huge social impact. But sometimes the behavior of this softwar…

cs.SE2020★ 130 cited

Fairway: A Way to Build Fair ML Software

Joymallya Chakraborty, Suvodeep Majumder, Zhe Yu +1

Machine learning software is increasingly being used to make decisions that affect people's lives. But sometimes, the core part of this software (the learned model), behaves in a b…

cs.SE2019★ 8 cited

Predicting Breakdowns in Cloud Services (with SPIKE)

Jianfeng Chen, Joymallya Chakraborty, Philip Clark +3

Maintaining web-services is a mission-critical task where any down-time means loss of revenue and reputation (of being a reliable service provider). In the current competitive web…

cs.SE2019★ 16 cited

Software Engineering for Fairness: A Case Study with Hyperparameter Optimization

Joymallya Chakraborty, Tianpei Xia, Fahmid M. Fahid +1

We assert that it is the ethical duty of software engineers to strive to reduce software discrimination. This paper discusses how that might be done. This is an important topic sin…

cs.SE2019

Communication and Code Dependency Effects on Software Code Quality: An Empirical Analysis of Herbsleb Hypothesis

Suvodeep Majumder, Joymallya Chakraborty, Amritanshu Agrawal +1

Prior literature has suggested that in many projects 80\% or more of the contributions are made by a small called group of around 20% of the development team. Most prior studies de…