ICML workshop on using machine learning for social good projects.
problem Improving social good projects through machine learning.
method Not specified in the abstract.
result Not specified in the abstract.
Twitter data reveals global movement patterns for social good.
problem Lack of accessible, unbiased, high-resolution spatial data.
method Used geolocation data from Twitter to estimate global mobility patterns.
result Demonstrated Twitter data can address spatial data shortcomings.
Study shows social influence significantly impacts mobile app adoption in African app stores.
problem Understanding social influence on mobile app choices in app stores.
method Developed a structural model combining diffusion and choice models, used Bayesian estimation.
result Customer choices explained better by offline social influence than online density.
We obtain the conditions for the emergence of the swarm intelligence effect in an interactive game of restless multi-armed bandit (rMAB). A player competes with multiple agents. Each bandit has a payoff that changes with a probability pc per round. The agents and player choose one of three options: (1) Exploit (a …
In this paper we study continuous-time stochastic control problems with both monotone and classical controls motivated by the so-called public good contribution problem. That is the problem of n economic agents aiming to maximize their expected utility allocating initial wealth over a given time period between private …
Model studies money exchange stability in social networks.
problem Stability and wealth equality in money exchange systems.
method Evolved Deffuant model to study money exchange.
result Asymptotic stability and wealth equality conditions identified.
Algorithm improves resource allocation for food outreach to homeless.
problem Resource-constrained outreach for homeless individuals and food rescue.
method Thompson sampling with Markov chain recovery (via Stein variational gradient descent) for partially-observed episodic restless bandits.
result Significantly outperforms baselines in both organizations' problems.
This paper shows how we can build a model for transactions when goods are given away in the expectation of a later settlement. In settings where people keep track of their social accounts we are able to redefine concepts like account balance, yield curve and the law of diminishing returns. The model provides us with a …
New metric improves social message classification on Twitter.
problem Efficient classification of short social messages on online networks.
method Dynamic Time Warping distance for message spreading classification.
result Good classification accuracies on Twitter data.
Detecting depression early from social media texts.
problem Early diagnosis and prevention of depression.
method Topic analysis and learned confidence scores.
result Achieved good results compared to state of the art.
Social-sparsity brain decoders improve speed and interpretability.
problem Computational cost and interpretability in brain decoding models.
method Introduced social-sparsity, a structured shrinkage operator.
result Social-sparsity performs almost as well as total-variation models and better than graph-net, with a fraction of the computational cost.
The study examines how social biases are reinforced in machine learning models used for credit scoring.
problem Reinforcement of societal biases in machine learning algorithms for credit scoring.
method Analysis of machine learning models predicting gender or ethnicity based on loan applications data.
result Machine learning models can reflect and reinforce social biases present in the data.
This study analyzes Twitter posts from US west coast libraries.
problem Lack of automated methods to analyze thousands of library tweets.
method Used Twitter API to collect and analyze 138,000 tweets.
result Identified 20 topics in library tweets, categorized into public relations, book, event, training, and social good.
Modeling trading interactions with money and trust variables.
problem Understanding wealth distribution in social networks.
method Simple dynamical model with conserved money and goods, influenced by trust and price.
result Model accurately predicts wealth distribution in trading networks.
New neural network boosts authorship verification on social media.
problem Challenges in verifying authorship of short, diverse social media messages.
method Proposes a new neural network topology for similarity learning.
result Significantly improved performance on author verification tasks.
New approach detects racial segregation patterns in machine learning systems.
problem Challenges of fairness in machine learning systems due to racial identity.
method Unsupervised learning to detect patterns of segregation.
result Mitigates root cause of social disparities without reifying race.
The study assesses the relative value of prediction in algorithmic decision making.
problem Improving welfare through better predictions versus other policy levers.
method Theoretical analysis of statistical models.
result Simple conditions determining the relative value of prediction.
Model shows how social norms and individual ethics affect tax evasion.
problem Effects of social norms and individual ethics on tax evasion.
method Agent-based model with simulations of different tax compliance behaviors.
result Threshold levels in society composition explain tax evasion extent.
Efficient nonparametric Bayesian topic model for social media text.
problem Text analytics for social media data.
method Hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes for topic modeling.
result Nonparametric model outperforms existing parametric models.
Large graphs are natural mathematical models for describing the structure of the data in a wide variety of fields, such as web mining, social networks, information retrieval, biological networks, etc. For all these applications, automatic tools are required to get a synthetic view of the graph and to reach a good under…
Self-supervised method detects active speaker from visual cues.
problem Improving robustness of language acquisition systems in noisy conditions.
method Visual detection of active speaker using self-supervised learning.
result Good performance in speaker dependent settings, lower in speaker independent settings.
Improved approximation for socially fair clustering with ℓp-objective.
problem Finding a set of centers minimizing the maximum distance to all points in each group.
method Introduced a strengthened LP relaxation with an integrality gap of Θ(loglogℓlogℓ). result Improved approximation algorithm with (eO(p)loglogℓlogℓ)-approximation. The paper analyzes data markets with multiple data aggregators, showing non-uniqueness of equilibria and social inefficiency.
problem Non-uniqueness of equilibria and social inefficiency in data markets with multiple data aggregators.
method Characterization of generalized Nash equilibria and analysis of necessary and sufficient conditions for social inefficiency.
result There are either infinitely many or no generalized Nash equilibria, leading to social inefficiency.
In recent years, ideas from statistics and scientific computing have begun to interact in increasingly sophisticated and fruitful ways with ideas from computer science and the theory of algorithms to aid in the development of improved worst-case algorithms that are useful for large-scale scientific and Internet data an…
AI predicts dementia onset from emotional face evaluations.
problem Early detection of dementia in aging societies.
method Behavioral responses analysis and AI regression.
result Encouraging AI-based prediction results for MoCA scores.
A vast amount of textual web streams is influenced by events or phenomena emerging in the real world. The social web forms an excellent modern paradigm, where unstructured user generated content is published on a regular basis and in most occasions is freely distributed. The present Ph.D. Thesis deals with the problem …
New policies maximize rewards in social networks with side-observation data.
problem Maximizing rewards in stochastic multi-armed bandit problems with network side-observations.
method Proposed two policies: randomized and UCB-based, achieving asymptotic lower bound on regret.
result Policies achieve maximum long-term average reward up to a multiplicative factor, independent of network structure.
New method for fair influence maximization in social networks.
problem Maximizing influence while ensuring fairness across sensitive attributes.
method Co-training an auto-encoder and discriminator to create fair graph embeddings.
result Our method reduces disparity while maintaining competitive influence maximization performance.
The study applies wealth thermalization hypothesis to social networks and explains inequality.
problem Explains inequality in human society through wealth thermalization hypothesis.
method Uses Random Matrix Theory and social networks with nonlinear perturbation.
result Shows that wealth distribution follows Rayleigh-Jeans distribution, leading to inequality.
Generative adversarial networks transform streetscape images to improve health and wellbeing.
problem Improving health and wellbeing outcomes through better streetscape design.
method Generative adversarial networks were used to translate Google Street View images, preserving structure while changing the style from bad health to good health areas.
result Translated images show that good health areas have more green space and compact urban design, while good social capital areas have more footpaths and less fencing.
The well-known theorem of Dybvig, Ingersoll and Ross shows that the long zero-coupon rate can never fall. This result, which, although undoubtedly correct, has been regarded by many as surprising, stems from the implicit assumption that the long-term discount function has an exponential tail. We revisit the problem in …
Study examines financial services, economic growth, and well-being using four prongs.
problem Understanding the components of well-being and their relation to economic growth.
method Four-pronged approach: Uncertainty Principle, Fiscal Responsibilities, Smaller Organizations, Redirecting Growth.
result Holistic understanding of well-being beyond economic growth indicators.
Income redistribution boosts cooperation in spatial public goods games, but the effect depends on the model of redistribution.
problem The impact of income redistribution on cooperation in spatial public goods games.
method Two models of income redistribution were used: local and global. Spatial public goods games were employed to study the evolution of cooperation.
result The cooperation level is significantly higher with local redistribution of income, but lower with global redistribution.
Add antidote data to improve polarization and fairness in recommender systems.
problem Improving the social desirability of recommender system outputs.
method Formalize antidote data problem, develop optimization-based solutions, and propose measures for polarization and fairness.
result A modest budget for antidote data can lead to significant improvements in the polarization or fairness of recommendations.
In this chapter the complex systems are discussed in the context of economic and business policy and decision making. It will be showed and motivated that social systems are typically chaotic, non-linear and/or non-equilibrium and therefore complex systems. It is discussed that the rapid change in global consumer behav…
Reduced models derived from agent-based systems using Koopman theory.
problem Time-consuming simulations of large agent-based systems.
method Koopman operator theory applied to simulation data.
result Derived reduced models match known analytical results.
A dynamic model of the product lifecycle of (nearly) homogeneous durables in polypoly markets is established. It describes the concurrent evolution of the unit sales and price of durable goods. The theory is based on the idea that the sales dynamics is determined by a meeting process of demanded with supplied product u…
Contrastive divergence (CD) is a promising method of inference in high dimensional distributions with intractable normalizing constants, however, the theoretical foundations justifying its use are somewhat shaky. This document proposes a framework for understanding CD inference, how/when it works, and provides multiple…
Exploiting the large amount of available data for addressing relevant social problems has been one of the key challenges in data mining. Such efforts have been recently named "data science for social good" and attracted the attention of several researchers and institutions. We give a contribution in this objective in t…
Study compares two market clearing methods for European power markets.
problem Optimizing market clearing for European power markets considering cost and social welfare.
method Introduces Cost Minimization and Social Welfare Maximization models, and four algorithms to solve the CM model.
result Cost Minimization reduces market power and decreases total procurement cost.
This research proposes a variable importance cloud to assess variable importance across multiple good models.
problem Current variable importance measures are tied to a single model, limiting understanding of variable importance across different models.
method Introduces a variable importance cloud that maps every variable to its importance for every good predictive model.
result Shows how variable importance can vary significantly across different good models.
LEAP predicts graph edges and weights from path aggregations.
problem Predicting edges and weights in graphs.
method Trainable framework based on path aggregations.
result LEAP outperforms state-of-the-art methods in link and rating prediction.
We introduce an online tensor decomposition based approach for two latent variable modeling problems namely, (1) community detection, in which we learn the latent communities that the social actors in social networks belong to, and (2) topic modeling, in which we infer hidden topics of text articles. We consider decomp…
TIMME detects Twitter users' ideology from sparse, heterogeneous data.
problem Predicting political tendencies from Twitter data.
method TIMME, a multi-task multi-relational embedding model.
result TIMME outperforms state-of-the-art models for ideology detection.
Paper tackles attribute pattern learning in high-dimensional SLAMs.
problem Learning significant attribute patterns from high-dimensional SLAMs.
method Proposes a penalized likelihood method for selecting attribute patterns.
result Establishes selection consistency in overfitted SLAMs.
Study online and offline social interactions using game theory.
problem Effects of online social networking on offline interactions and collective well-being.
method Evolutionary game theory approach to model socialization strategies.
result Self-protective behaviors can lead to non-socially optimal outcomes.
PHASE dataset simulates complex social interactions in physical environments.
problem Lack of datasets for evaluating physically grounded perception of complex social interactions.
method Created PHASE dataset of 2D animations with procedural generation and physics engine.
result SIMPLE model outperforms neural networks in recognizing complex social interactions.
Bayesian method predicts social unrest from social media data.
problem Uncertainty in predicting events from diverse, unstructured social media data.
method Machine learning for classification and empirical Bayesian approach for event probability calculation.
result Predicted social unrest events in Australian cities with high accuracy.