Fairness and reliability of Machine Learning

October

Privacy

Differential privacy by Cynthia Dwork.
Inferential Privacy Guarantees for Differentially Private Mechanisms by Ghosh and Kleinberg.
Privacy by design.

Reliability

Reliability of randomized controlled trials (RCT)

Tutorials on RCTs.
RCTs, economics and policy-making by Esther Duflo.
Fighting poverty one experiment at a time by Martin Ravallion.
Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials by Angus Deaton and Nancy Cartwright. (also see The limitations of randomised controlled trials and Bias-variance tradeoff)

Other readings on RCT

Anything you can find on the Nobel winning effort of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. Also find out about their book Poor Economics.
Challenging the hegemony of randomized controlled trials by Judea Pearl (also for relation to SCMs, data fusion,...)
Evidence, policy, and politics by Jean Dreze. (Ethics. "evidence involves more than RCTs, understanding more than evidence, and policy more than understanding")
2019 Nobel* prize reveals the poverty of economics by Mader et. al
Why positive thinking won't get you out of poverty by Farwa Sial and Carolina Alves.
Economics' Biggest Success Story Is a Cautionary Tale by Sanjay G Reddy.
Buzzwords and tortuous impact studies won't fix a broken aid system - Fifteen leading researchers.

Reliability of machine learning

Review Learnability and VC dimestion. Also see this tutorial.
Bias-variance tradeoff. Also see here.
Breaking neural networks with adversarial attacks by Anant Jain
DeepFool: a simple and accurate method to fool deep neural networks by Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli, Alhussein Fawzi, Pascal Frossard.
Poison Frogs! Targeted Clean-Label Poisoning Attacks on Neural Networks by Shafahi et al.
Explaining and harnessing adversarial examples by Ian J. Goodfellow, Jonathon Shlens & Christian Szegedy.
Adversarial examples in the physical world by Alexey Kurakin, Ian J. Goodfellow, Samy Bengio.
A simple explanation for the existence of adversarial examples with small hamming distance by Adi Shamir, Itay Safran, Eyal Ronen, Orr Dunkelman.

Subhashis Banerjee / Dept. Computer Science and Engineering / IIT Delhi / Hauz Khas/ New Delhi 110016