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most citedMan is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

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112 papers

cs.CY2023★ 14 cited

What Should Data Science Education Do with Large Language Models?

Xinming Tu, James Zou, Weijie J. Su +1

The rapid advances of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are revolutionizing data science and statistics. These state-of-the-art tools can streamline complex processes.…

cs.CL2023★ 172 cited

How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?

Lingjiao Chen, Matei Zaharia, James Zou

GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are the two most widely used large language model (LLM) services. However, when and how these models are updated over time is opaque. Here, we evaluate the March…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

Discover and Cure: Concept-aware Mitigation of Spurious Correlation

Shirley Wu, Mert Yuksekgonul, Linjun Zhang +1

Deep neural networks often rely on spurious correlations to make predictions, which hinders generalization beyond training environments. For instance, models that associate cats wi…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

OpenDataVal: a Unified Benchmark for Data Valuation

Kevin Fu Jiang, Weixin Liang, James Zou +1

Assessing the quality and impact of individual data points is critical for improving model performance and mitigating undesirable biases within the training dataset. Several data v…

stat.AP2023★ 2 cited

TWIGMA: A dataset of AI-Generated Images with Metadata From Twitter

Yiqun Chen, James Zou

Recent progress in generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI) has enabled the generation of photo-realistic and artistically-inspiring photos at a single click, catering to millio…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

ArtWhisperer: A Dataset for Characterizing Human-AI Interactions in Artistic Creations

Kailas Vodrahalli, James Zou

As generative AI becomes more prevalent, it is important to study how human users interact with such models. In this work, we investigate how people use text-to-image models to gen…

cs.LG2023★ 15 cited

Factorized Contrastive Learning: Going Beyond Multi-view Redundancy

Paul Pu Liang, Zihao Deng, Martin Ma +3

In a wide range of multimodal tasks, contrastive learning has become a particularly appealing approach since it can successfully learn representations from abundant unlabeled data…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Data-OOB: Out-of-bag Estimate as a Simple and Efficient Data Value

Yongchan Kwon, James Zou

Data valuation is a powerful framework for providing statistical insights into which data are beneficial or detrimental to model training. Many Shapley-based data valuation methods…

cs.LG2023

Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulations

Weixin Liang, Yining Mao, Yongchan Kwon +2

Understanding the performance of machine learning (ML) models across diverse data distributions is critically important for reliable applications. Despite recent empirical studies…

cs.CL2023

Beyond Positive Scaling: How Negation Impacts Scaling Trends of Language Models

Yuhui Zhang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Zhengping Zhou +4

Language models have been shown to exhibit positive scaling, where performance improves as models are scaled up in terms of size, compute, or data. In this work, we introduce NeQA,…

cs.LG2023★ 52 cited

FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance

Lingjiao Chen, Matei Zaharia, James Zou

There is a rapidly growing number of large language models (LLMs) that users can query for a fee. We review the cost associated with querying popular LLM APIs, e.g. GPT-4, ChatGPT,…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Beyond Confidence: Reliable Models Should Also Consider Atypicality

Mert Yuksekgonul, Linjun Zhang, James Zou +1

While most machine learning models can provide confidence in their predictions, confidence is insufficient to understand a prediction's reliability. For instance, the model may hav…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Data-Driven Subgroup Identification for Linear Regression

Zachary Izzo, Ruishan Liu, James Zou

Medical studies frequently require to extract the relationship between each covariate and the outcome with statistical confidence measures. To do this, simple parametric models are…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Last-Layer Fairness Fine-tuning is Simple and Effective for Neural Networks

Yuzhen Mao, Zhun Deng, Huaxiu Yao +3

As machine learning has been deployed ubiquitously across applications in modern data science, algorithmic fairness has become a great concern. Among them, imposing fairness constr…

cs.CL2023★ 40 cited

GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers

Weixin Liang, Mert Yuksekgonul, Yining Mao +2

The rapid adoption of generative language models has brought about substantial advancements in digital communication, while simultaneously raising concerns regarding the potential…

cs.LG2023

Understanding Multimodal Contrastive Learning and Incorporating Unpaired Data

Ryumei Nakada, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Zhun Deng +3

Language-supervised vision models have recently attracted great attention in computer vision. A common approach to build such models is to use contrastive learning on paired data a…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Diagnosing and Rectifying Vision Models using Language

Yuhui Zhang, Jeff Z. HaoChen, Shih-Cheng Huang +3

Recent multi-modal contrastive learning models have demonstrated the ability to learn an embedding space suitable for building strong vision classifiers, by leveraging the rich inf…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Provable Membership Inference Privacy

Zachary Izzo, Jinsung Yoon, Sercan O. Arik +1

In applications involving sensitive data, such as finance and healthcare, the necessity for preserving data privacy can be a significant barrier to machine learning model developme…

cs.CL2022★ 298 cited

Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale

Federico Bianchi, Pratyusha Kalluri, Esin Durmus +7

Machine learning models that convert user-written text descriptions into images are now widely available online and used by millions of users to generate millions of images a day.…

stat.ML2022

A Spectral Method for Assessing and Combining Multiple Data Visualizations

Rong Ma, Eric D. Sun, James Zou

Dimension reduction and data visualization aim to project a high-dimensional dataset to a low-dimensional space while capturing the intrinsic structures in the data. It is an indis…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

SEAL : Interactive Tool for Systematic Error Analysis and Labeling

Nazneen Rajani, Weixin Liang, Lingjiao Chen +2

With the advent of Transformers, large language models (LLMs) have saturated well-known NLP benchmarks and leaderboards with high aggregate performance. However, many times these m…

cs.LG2022★ 13 cited

C-Mixup: Improving Generalization in Regression

Huaxiu Yao, Yiping Wang, Linjun Zhang +2

Improving the generalization of deep networks is an important open challenge, particularly in domains without plentiful data. The mixup algorithm improves generalization by linearl…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Knowledge-Driven New Drug Recommendation

Zhenbang Wu, Huaxiu Yao, Zhe Su +5

Drug recommendation assists doctors in prescribing personalized medications to patients based on their health conditions. Existing drug recommendation solutions adopt the supervise…

cs.LG2022

Data Budgeting for Machine Learning

Xinyi Zhao, Weixin Liang, James Zou

Data is the fuel powering AI and creates tremendous value for many domains. However, collecting datasets for AI is a time-consuming, expensive, and complicated endeavor. For practi…