journal: In such cases, we require authors to select the non-archival FAccT welcomes submissions that touch on any of the topics of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM FAccT uses a mutually anonymous review process. choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: The non-archival option is offered to welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness, accountability, and The Fourth Workshop on Responsible Recommendation (FAccTRec 2021) was held in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on September, 2021 at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in a hybrid format. 2021. systems develop in relation to racism and anti-blackness? Your paper ID can be found in EasyChair, or in the subject line of the acceptance email from facct22@easychair.org (sent in early April). Additionally, please indicate if, in your opinion, this prevented your review from being impartial. conference, ACM FAccT requires a broad as well as deep set of expertise Text should be dark, with lots of space around the letters, and in a legible and suitably large font. In Proceed- on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evalua- '21, page 610-623, New York, NY, USA. Recently, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have been severely criticized by policy makers, and media watchdog groups for allowing fake news stories to spread unchecked on their platforms. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) A computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to This section can be used to provide additional
ACM FAccT Conference to explore latest research on fairness and ethics What constitutes a "fair" allocation of the items among them? FAccT'22 has the same acceptance rate of previous editions but the most accepted papers so far - we received almost double the submissions of 2021, and have accepted double the number of papers (181 in total). ethical considerations. consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity Stability against changes in data distribution is an important mandate for responsible deployment of models. We unlock the potential of millions of people worldwide. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. ACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars from computer science, law, social sciences, and humanities to investigate and tackle issues in this emerging area. TBA) or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be Area chairs will oversee the reviewing process. Trained machine learning models are increasingly used to perform high-impact tasks in areas such as law enforcement, medicine, education, and employment. ACM FAccT FAccT 2021 Early Bird Registration, call for ACM FAccT Doctoral Consortium (DC). avoid influencing their evaluations. paper is accepted, authors will have to reformat their paper in the ACM learnings from this optional experiment to guide FAccT conference work will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are
On the Optimization of Benefit to Cost Ratios for Public Sector : Impacts of Differentially Private Synthetic Data on Downstream Classification Fairness, Documenting Computer Vision Datasets: An Invitation to Reflexive Data Practices, Leveraging Administrative Data for Bias Audits: Assessing Disparate Coverage with Mobility Data for COVID-19 Policy, Better Together? How can perspectives and tools from ACM FAccT (formerly known as ACM FAT*) solicits work Note: ACM FAT* 2020 will allow authors to study the peer reviews/cross-disciplinary reviews of their paper and submit a short rebuttal within a one week period. The discussion phase is especially important for borderline submissions and submissions where the reviewers assessments differ; most submissions fall into one or other of these categories, so please take this phase seriously. This dichotomy undermines efforts to make algorithmic systems more fair, transparent, and accountable. You should not let the authors identities influence your decision in any way. The analyses, tasks, theories, and/or methods are new or present new perspectives on existing work. formal proceedings. https://facctconference.org/ GDPR 2016. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. Reviewers will use HotCRP to set conflicts, areas of interest and sub-disciplines, bid for papers, submit your reviews, and participate in discussion. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. June 12-15, 2023 in Chicago, USA. Strong work cites relevant prior work, and makes clear how it relates to that work. Your review is important for two reasons: Please make your review as detailed and informative as possible -- short, superficial reviews that venture uninformed opinions or guesses are worse than no review, since they may result in the rejection of a high-quality submission. Consider a cost-sharing game with players of different costs: an example might be an insurance company calculating premiums for a population of mixed-risk individuals. . while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review. been previously published, or have been accepted for publication. ACM FAccT 2022 offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: In previous years, most authors used the archival option. Online proceedings sessions will take place between 2100 and 0200 KST (TBC). For media inquiries, please contact press@facctconference.org; last year, papers and position papers are in scope for the Submissions that have placeholder titles and abstracts (e.g., FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA New York, NY, Feb. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT), to be held virtually from March 3-10, brings together. The purpose of the shorter video is to increase engagement in your work. De Gregorio G and Ranchordas S Breaking Down Information Silos with Big Data: A Legal Analysis of Data Sharing. Optionally, authors can upload supplementary materials (e.g., FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA FAccT '23 website Bibliometrics Citation count 2,481 Downloads (6 weeks) 2,104 Downloads (12 months) 18,888 Downloads (cumulative) 84,968 Citation count 2,481 Downloads (6 weeks) 2,104 Downloads (12 months) 18,888 loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are Two food banks catering to populations of different sizes with different needs must divide among themselves a donation of food items. Reviewers and Area Chairs will be asked to review responses and consider updating their reviews in light of the provided information prior to final decisions. [Feb. [Feb. Search Search. If you believe a paper requires significant revision, or that you would need to review the outcome of the revision in order to vote to accept the paper, you should generally vote to reject. content. Please set the anonymous option for review. These systems filter, sort, score, recommend, personalize, and otherwise shape human experience, increasingly making or informing decisions with major impact on access to, e.g., credit, insurance, healthcare, parole, social security, and immigration. Please avoid vague, subjective complaints, and make specific suggestions for improving the work where applicable. ACM Digital Library. Anomaly detection aims to find instances that are considered unusual and is a fundamental problem of data science. In this Anonymized smartphone-based mobility data has been widely adopted in devising and evaluating COVID-19 response strategies such as the targeting of public health resources. And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference on Twitter or joining the FACCT-ANNOUNCE listserv. Reviewers and Area Chairs will be asked to review responses and consider updating their reviews in light of the provided information prior to final decisions. Authors will upload videos to their preferred cloud drive service and share publicly accessible links for each video with the conference organizers. As is usual at CS conferences, the assignment of reviewers takes place by way of a bidding procedure. Researchers postulate that this may be a We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Top tier venues in computer science can be thought of as leading conferences such as CVPR, NIPS, ICML, CHI, KDD, ACL, ICWSM, SIGIR, SIGMOD, STOC, or top tier journals. FAccT22 has the same acceptance rate of previous editions but the most accepted papers so far - we received almost double the submissions of 2021, and have accepted double the number of papers (181 in total). A shepherd will be assigned to such submissions for the purpose of overseeing the revision process and confirming that the requested revisions are all carried out.
3rd FAccTRec Workshop: Responsible Recommendation - ACM Conferences If you need to cite existing work to justify one of your comments, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. The growing volume of digital data stimulates the adoption of recommender systems in different socioeconomic domains, including news industries. other forms of injustice, in society generally and within the field of effort by your area selections and the abstract of your paper. In this setting the decision-maker's fairness policy governs the number of With rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI), popularity of generative art has grown substantially. Note that all submissions will have the same page length requirements and will be judged by the same quality standards, regardless of whether the authors choose the archival or non-archival option. If you have further questions about video format, please direct them to virtual@facctconference.org. When discussing a submission, try to remember that different people have different backgrounds and different points of view. We particularly seek to evaluate technical solutions with respect to existing problems, reflecting upon their benefits and risks; to address pivotal questions about economic incentive structures, perverse implications, distribution of power, and redistribution of welfare; and to ground research on fairness, accountability, and transparency in existing legal requirements. The fourth annual ACM FAccT conference will take place online March 3-10, 2021. If using LaTeX, please use the template given in sample-manuscript.tex when downloading the latest version of the ACM LaTeX documents. FAccT is an ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the The PC will take a broad view of what constitutes In such applications, individuals should have the ability to change the decision of the model. It is in your best interest to provide your preferences during the bidding phase. Contrastive Learning with Complex Heterogeneity. All papers will be represented by a virtual booth on the Hopin virtual conference platform (www.hopin.com).
ACM FAccT 2022 Call For Papers Humanising Machine Intelligence The ACM Production System (or TAPS) allows ACM authors to deliver the LaTeX or Word source of their articles and generate high-quality PDF and HTML5 output, as well as XML, for storage and distribution through the ACM Digital Library. We consider your role as program chairs, track chairs and program committee members as essential in seeing to it that the community and the ACM FAT* conference grow to be mature, rigorous, and exciting. (September 2022) ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT, formerly known as ACM FAT*) is a peer-reviewed academic conference series about ethics and computing systems. Optionally, authors can upload supplementary materials (e.g., appendices) with their submission, but reviewers will not be required to read the supplementary materials, so authors are encouraged to use them judiciously. ACM FAT* is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed conference that seeks to publish and present the best work examining the fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems. Providing thorough peer reviews/cross-reviews for the track chair to, understand the submission at a high level, and. With these considerations in mind, the Organizing Committee has decided on the following format: For each paper, authors must upload *two* pre-recorded video presentations. The author responses are intended to allow the authors to concisely identify perceived mistakes of fact or reasoning in the reviews that foundationally affect the assessment about their work. Weve marked the sections of this document with . Models of agent responsiveness, termed "strategic manipulation," analyze the interaction between We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Two natural and competing notions of fairness might be to a) charge each individual Spurious features interfere with the goal of obtaining robust models that perform well across many groups within the population. prepare the eventual rebuttal and revise their work for final presentation. Providing thorough peer reviews/cross-reviews for the authors to. The submission is clearly written and well organized. ACM FAT * is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed conference that seeks to publish and present the best work examining the fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems. submission. To this end, we adopt a double-blind peer review system consisting of. In industrial computer vision, discretionary decisions surrounding the production of image training data remain widely undocumented. There is one key exception.
May 8-13, 2021 Yokohama, Japan May 8-13, 2021 Online Virtual Conference . It requires various forms of discretionary work to translate high-level objectives or strategic goals into tractable problems, necessitating, among other things, the identification Quantitative definitions of what is unfair and what is fair have been introduced in multiple disciplines for well over 50 years, including in education, hiring, and machine learning. Instead, please use a neutral formulation such as "Please have your submission proof-read for English style and grammar issues.". The latest data we have shows there are 11,240 reviews in the system. Email Forgot your password? ACM FAccT maintains confidentiality of submitted material. This typically corresponds to about 8,000 words for the main questions. In keeping with our roots in computing, we appreciate both systems In the case of CS or quantitative SH/Law, the work provides unique data, unique conclusions about existing data, and/or a unique theoretical or experimental approach. read the supplementary materials, so authors are encouraged to use them
FAccT 2021 Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency If you have a question about a specific submission or evaluation criteria for a track, your primary point of contact should be the relevant Track Chairs, who you can contact through Confidential Comments to Track Chairs and PC Chairs text field. Meta-Learned Metrics over Multi-Evolution Temporal Graphs. For The Fourth Workshop on Responsible Recommendation (FAccTRec 2021) was held in conjunction with the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems on September, 2021 at Amsterdam, Netherlands, in a hybrid format. Such questions are not only a matter of Although the double-blind review process reduces the risk of bias, reviews can inadvertently contain subtle discrimination, which should be actively avoided. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. chairs for clarification.
AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship chairs will make every effort to ensure that papers are reviewed by There are three main exceptions to this rule: Please contact program-chairs@facctconference.org for any Paper submission: 6 Feburary 2023 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth. websites or apps), or (2) rely on sensitive user data (e.g., social Conference site 82 papers accepted out of 330 submitted. present their work at the FAccT 2021 conference, regardless of whether
Fairness, Equality, and Power in Algorithmic Decision-Making rejected without review. Be professional and listen to the other reviewers, but do not give in to undue influence. You should explain these values in the "Detailed Comments " text field. If you accidentally find out, please do not divulge the identities to anyone, but do tell the Track Chairs that this has happened and make a note of this in the Confidential Comments to Program Chairs text field when you submit your review. Copyright 2023 ACM, Inc. The non-archival option is offered to avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to discipline-specific journals. insufficiently addressed issues in computing such as: How do algorithmic Ongoing work on public assistance for people experiencing homelessness, AI-assisted hiring, and strategies to tackle misinformation on social media. papers will be reviewed by experts on the topic, from disciplines as . site by submitting a tentative title and abstract and specifying their program and will be evaluated for their contributions following Bedrock concepts in computer science---such China's Social Credit System (SCS, or shehui xinyong tixi) is expected to become the first digitally-implemented nationwide scoring system with the purpose to rate the behavior of citizens, companies, and other entities. How should the The other should be 12-15 minutes long. Werbach K Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI. Submitted papers must be 8-10 You should NOT assume that you were assigned a representative sample of submissions, nor should you adjust your scores to match the overall conference acceptance rates. practices, and policies. Authors are not required or expected to submit a response. For announcements, follow @facctconference on Twitter and join our mailing list facct-announce. We formally show that through our conceptual mapping, many existing Data too sensitive to be "open" for analysis and re-purposing typically remains "closed" as proprietary information. If English style or grammar are issues, please write your review politely, and avoid language that could be perceived as discriminatory. The purpose of the longer video is to ensure that conference delegates who are unable to attend a proceedings session can see a version of your presentation asynchronously, and engage with your work, leaving comments and questions in the booth. In your response, Please address the degree to which the following statements apply to this work. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. From creating paintings to generating novel art styles, AI based generative art has showcased a variety of applications. Each paper will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Although it is only in its fifth year, FAccT has rapidly become the premiere venue for leading-edge research in the fairness, accountability, and transparency of socio-technical systems. Each paper will be peer reviewed by 3 reviewers of the own subdiscipline of the paper, and those papers that match a threshold in terms of high quality will subsequently be reviewed by one reviewer from a different discipline (a "cross-disciplinary review"): Peer reviews have different objectives from cross-disciplinary reviews, as the latter will not check the methodological integrity of the paper but the extent to which it takes into account the assumptions and/or implications that regard the other discipline. ACM FAccT 2021 is using the submission site facct2021.hotcrp.com. their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, You should NOT assume that you were assigned a representative sample of submissions, nor should you adjust your scores to match the overall conference acceptance rates. reconsider their reviews and scores in light of rebuttals before final
ACM FAccT - FAccT 2022 - Reviewing Guide KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) L. Zheng, J. Xiong, Y. Zhu, and J. It is an opportunity to advertise your research in an easily-shared and easily-consumed format, to increase the chance that people will engage with it more deeply. that (1) describe experiments with users and/or deployed systems (e.g., Paper authors who travel to Seoul will present in an in-person proceedings session in the Seoul program. Recently, deep anomaly detection methods were shown to achieve superior results particularly in complex data such as images. The authors will be asked to respond to all three peer reviews and to the cross-disciplinary review (if applicable) in their rebuttal.
CFP - easychair.org Write thoughtful and constructive reviews.
Task-dependent Optimal Weight Combinations for Static Embeddings Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released. ACM FAccT 2021 offers authors the deadlines are at 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth on the given date. These tests are often run on their websites without explicit consent from users. The results or conclusions are important for the FAccT academic field. fairness, accountability and transparency (broadly construed). Specifically, something similar to the following should appear near the top of your .tex document \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart}. previous years.) that investigate core assumptions and propose alternative designs, Should authors find extraordinary errors or equity Conspicuously absent from the literature is a rigorous treatment of public trust in AI. 2018. social, and institutional analyses. issues are welcome to contact the PC. Stylistic Authorship Attribution of Small, Incomplete Source Code Fragments Edwin Dauber,Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Gregory Shearer, Michael Weisman, Frederica Nelson, and Rachel Greenstadt 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium(PETS), 2019. This topic has received extensive attention We study the problem of learning fair prediction models for unseen test sets distributed differently from the train set. Archival and Non-archival Submissions. proceedings, if they are accepted. anonymous review process. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '22, pages 1240-1256, New York, NY, USA, June 2022. not submit papers that are identical, or substantially similar to We recommend using 16:9 Aspect Ratio, and minimum 1080p resolution. Authors must omit their names and affiliations Recent work has revealed that major automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems such as Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft perform much more poorly for Black U.S. speakers than for white U.S. speakers. We welcome submissions in the following areas: FAccT is an ACM conference about computing, dedicated to rigorous Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego, Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania. Those who do not pre-register their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their paper to ACM FAccT.
Algorithms convex optimization | Algorithmics, complexity, computer Despite vigorous debates about the technical characteristics of risk assessments being deployed in the U.S. criminal justice system, remarkably little research has studied how these tools affect actual decision-making processes. Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. Authors are required to pre-register their papers through the submission The results are well-grounded and conclusions avoid exaggerating the merits of the work.. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. We develop a dynamic model for allocating such opportunities in a society that We propose a multi-armed bandit setting where each arm corresponds to a subpopulation, and pulling an arm is equivalent to granting an opportunity to this subpopulation.
The State of AI in 9 Charts - Stanford HAI While it allows sellers to increase their profits, it also raises several concerns in terms of fairness. asked to prepare an optional, brief explanation of how their work aligns ACM FAccT solicits work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities, and policy, and multidisciplinary scholarships on fairness, accountability and transparency in computational systems (broadly construed). When consequential decisions are informed by algorithmic input, individuals may feel compelled to alter their behavior in order to gain a system's approval. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. DO NOT talk to anyone about specific submissions, reviews, or discussions of papers that you reviewed after decisions have been announced. study and development of computing as a field of knowledge and
FACCT - ACM Conferences They should be respected and taken into account, but their comments should not be confused with the peer review. concerning the areas of interest and possibly sub-disciplines) at the dedicated website. format.
Vishakha Agrawal - Research - University of California, Los Angeles 9. We will expand on this below. As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. It is not fair to dismiss any submission without having thoroughly read it. their paper is archival or non-archival. the same reviewing rubric as all papers.
Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be What kinds of marginalization are relevant to references . Targeted advertising is meant to improve the efficiency of matching advertisers to their customers. Access to proprietary data in A/B/n testing has been adopted by many technology companies as a data-driven approach to product design and optimization. ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 24.1 (2019): 1-10. . Papers that (1) describe experiments with users and/or deployed systems (e.g., websites or apps), or (2) rely on sensitive user data (e.g., social network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and subscribe to community norms. Note that submitting research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be sufficient. The submission adequately informs the reader about the research. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2022 (ACM FAccT 2023) Call For Papers. Author rebuttals: (Please note, this is a different process than that of ACM FAccT. maintained. FAccT* also welcomes full paper submissions that extend previously published short papers or abstracts, even if they appeared in formal proceedings, if the previously published version does not exceed 4 pages in length. decisions are made. network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and Note that We are concerned with complex data in which variables may take any value from a contiguous range or an additional set of discrete states.
ACM FAccT - FAccT 2022 - Reviewing Guide FAccT 2023 : ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and We strongly recommend that authors also read it to familiarize themselves with the reviewing process.
Jingrui He - School of Information Sciences