Queer in AI
Queer in AI’s demographic survey reveals that most queer scientists in our community do not feel completely welcome in conferences and their work environments, with the main reasons being a lack of queer community and role models. Over the past years, Queer in AI has worked towards these goals, yet we have observed that the voices of marginalized queer communities - especially transgender, non-binary folks and queer BIPOC folks - have been neglected.
Our social is a safe and inclusive casual networking and socializing space for LGBTQIA+ individuals involved with AI that celebrates all queer people around the world. Together with our workshop, our events will create a community space where attendees can learn and grow from connecting with each other, bonding over shared experiences, and learning from each individual’s unique insights into AI, queerness, and beyond!
A Conversation on Human and Machine Intelligence
Demonstrations 3
Demonstrations must show novel technology and must run online during the conference. Unlike poster presentations or slide shows, interaction with the audience is a critical element. Therefore, the creativity of demonstrators to propose new ways in which interaction and engagement can fully leverage this year’s virtual conference format will be particularly relevant for selection. This session has the following demonstrations:
- PYLON: A PyTorch Framework for Learning with Constraints
- Real-Time and Accurate Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation on Mobile Device
- Unsupervised Indoor Wi-Fi Positioning
- Prospective Explanations: An Interactive Mechanism for Model Understanding
Dataset and Benchmark Poster Session 3
The Datasets and Benchmarks track serves as a novel venue for high-quality publications, talks, and posters on highly valuable machine learning datasets and benchmarks, as well as a forum for discussions on how to improve dataset development. Datasets and benchmarks are crucial for the development of machine learning methods, but also require their own publishing and reviewing guidelines. For instance, datasets can often not be reviewed in a double-blind fashion, and hence full anonymization will not be required. On the other hand, they do require additional specific checks, such as a proper description of how the data was collected, whether they show intrinsic bias, and whether they will remain accessible.
Competition Track Day 3: Overviews + Breakout Sessions
The program includes a wide variety of exciting competitions in different domains, with some focusing more on applications and others trying to unify fields, focusing on technical challenges or directly tackling important problems in the world. The aim is for the broad program to make it so that anyone who wants to work on or learn from a competition can find something to their liking.
In this session, we have the following competitions:
* Evaluating Approximate Inference in Bayesian Deep Learning
* The NetHack Challenge
* Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
* Traffic4cast 2021 - Temporal and Spatial Few-Shot Transfer Learning in Traffic Map Movie Forecasting
* BASALT: A MineRL Competition on Solving Human-Judged Tasks
* IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment
How Copyright Shapes Your Datasets and What To Do About It
Grappling with copyright law is unavoidable for ML researchers. Copyright protects works like text, photographs, and videos--all of which are used as ML training data, often without consent of the copyright owner. Relying on public domain works (like works published pre-1926), Creative Commons-licensed data (like Wikipedia) or ubiquitous data (like the Enron emails) seems like an easy way to avoid dealing with copyright. Unfortunately, only relying on those works predictably introduces bias into ML algorithms. This Workshop will not provide any legal advice, but it will equip researchers with the tools to understand copyright law and its relationship to ML bias, how the fair use doctrine may allow some copyrighted works to be used as training data without consent, and resources for obtaining legal advice related to copyright and ML research. Attendees will be able to participate in a Q&A after the presentation.
These are some of the resources mentioned in the discussion:
- Friendly Neighborhood Tech Clinics (no single website, but offices are scattered throughout the US and possibly other countries)
- How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem
- Paper: Resisting Face Surveillance with Copyright Law
- Paper: How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem
- Paper: Fair Learning by Mark Lemley + Bryan Casey
Improving Global Research Collaboration & Communication
Come learn and share best practices collaborating with researchers around the world, and discuss how to bridge the remote work, cultural, and social divides.
As Grid.ai and PyTorch Lightning are a global remote-first workplace, will be holding two special guest speakers from the company to discuss how they have improved their global research collaboration and communication. Q&A will follow, then we’ll break into networking for the last half of the hour. The whiteboards in our Gather space are meant for sharing collaboration ideas with others in the space.
Women in AI Ignite
Join us for 5-minute Ignite talks by women in AI. Excited for the Third Annual Women in AI Ignite at NeurIPS. The idea of Women in AI Ignite Social is based on our experience hosting Women in Tech Ignite sessions at conferences around the world. Everyone is welcome; our speakers are women.
Dataset and Benchmark Symposium
The Datasets and Benchmarks track serves as a novel venue for high-quality publications, talks, and posters on highly valuable machine learning datasets and benchmarks, as well as a forum for discussions on how to improve dataset development. Datasets and benchmarks are crucial for the development of machine learning methods, but also require their own publishing and reviewing guidelines. For instance, datasets can often not be reviewed in a double-blind fashion, and hence full anonymization will not be required. On the other hand, they do require additional specific checks, such as a proper description of how the data was collected, whether they show intrinsic bias, and whether they will remain accessible.
Gender, Allyship & Public Interest Technology
In October 2021, X officially became an option for gender on US passports. What are the computational changes necessary to adapt to this more inclusive gender option? In this talk, Meredith Broussard investigates why large-scale computer systems are stuck using 1950s ideas about gender, and what is needed to update sociotechnical systems. She explores how allies can leverage public interest technology in order to think beyond the gender binary, interrogate and audit software systems, and create code for social good.
WiML Workshop 2
WiML’s purpose is to enhance the experience of women in machine learning. Our flagship event is the annual Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop, typically co-located with NeurIPS. We also organize an “un-workshop” at ICML, as well as small events at other machine learning conferences such as AISTATS, ICLR, etc.
Our mission is to enhance the experience of women in machine learning, and thereby
Increase the number of women in machine learning
Help women in machine learning succeed professionally
Increase the impact of women in machine learning in the community
Toward this goal, we create opportunities for women to engage in substantive technical and professional conversations in a positive, supportive environment (e.g. annual workshop, small events, mentoring program). We also work to increase awareness and appreciation of the achievements of women in machine learning (e.g. directory and profiles of women in machine learning). Our programs help women build their technical confidence and their voice, and our publicity efforts help ensure that women in machine learning and their achievements are known in the community.
The Town Hall meeting is an opportunity to connect and to learn about how this year's conference was organized. It is also a place where you can ask questions and provide feedback to the NeurIPS organizers and Board. We encourage you to submit questions in advance via townhall@neurips.cc. This event is open to all registered attendees of NeurIPS 2021.
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