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most citedCan Strategic Data Collection Improve the Performance of Poverty Prediction Models?

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cs.LG20221 cited

Can Strategic Data Collection Improve the Performance of Poverty Prediction Models?

Satej Soman, Emily Aiken, Esther Rolf +1

Machine learning-based estimates of poverty and wealth are increasingly being used to guide the targeting of humanitarian aid and the allocation of social assistance. However, the…

cs.LG2022

Striving for data-model efficiency: Identifying data externalities on group performance

Esther Rolf, Ben Packer, Alex Beutel +1

Building trustworthy, effective, and responsible machine learning systems hinges on understanding how differences in training data and modeling decisions interact to impact predict…

cs.LG2021

Representation Matters: Assessing the Importance of Subgroup Allocations in Training Data

Esther Rolf, Theodora Worledge, Benjamin Recht +1

Collecting more diverse and representative training data is often touted as a remedy for the disparate performance of machine learning predictors across subpopulations. However, a…

cs.LG2020

A Generalizable and Accessible Approach to Machine Learning with Global Satellite Imagery

Esther Rolf, Jonathan Proctor, Tamma Carleton +5

Combining satellite imagery with machine learning (SIML) has the potential to address global challenges by remotely estimating socioeconomic and environmental conditions in data-po…

cs.LG2020

Post-Estimation Smoothing: A Simple Baseline for Learning with Side Information

Esther Rolf, Michael I. Jordan, Benjamin Recht

Observational data are often accompanied by natural structural indices, such as time stamps or geographic locations, which are meaningful to prediction tasks but are often discarde…

cs.LG2020

Balancing Competing Objectives with Noisy Data: Score-Based Classifiers for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning

Esther Rolf, Max Simchowitz, Sarah Dean +4

While real-world decisions involve many competing objectives, algorithmic decisions are often evaluated with a single objective function. In this paper, we study algorithmic polici…