The most ignored instructions for ML conference review has got to be the "Please use sparingly" designation for weak accept/reject recommendations
Stephen Pfohl
@stephenpfohl.bsky.social
Research scientist at Google. Previously Stanford Biomedical Informatics. Researching #fairness #equity #robustness #transparency #causality #healthcare
Excited to share that our paper, “Understanding challenges to the interpretation of evaluations of algorithmic fairness” has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! You can read the paper now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.04193.
Understanding challenges to the interpretation of disaggregated evaluations of algorithmic fairness
Disaggregated evaluation across subgroups is critical for assessing the fairness of machine learning models, but its uncritical use can mislead practitioners. We show that equal performance across sub...
arxiv.org
Check out our new paper "Tackling Algorithmic Bias and Promoting Transparency in Health Datasets: The STANDING Together Consensus Recommendations" jointly published in NEJM AI and The Lancet Digital Health, led by @jaldmn.bsky.social @xiaoliu.bsky.social
Tackling Algorithmic Bias and Promoting Transparency in Health Datasets: The STANDING Together Consensus Recommendations
Without careful dissection of the ways in which biases can be encoded into artificial intelligence (AI) health technologies, there is a risk of perpetuating existing health inequalities at scale. O...
ai.nejm.org
Hello there BlueSky, it's a great pleasure to be able to share a project our team has been working on these last three years! (Led by the venerable @xiaoliu.bsky.social) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 1/