Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction

Speaker:        Sherry Tongshuang WU
                University of Washington

Title:          "Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction"

Date:           Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Time:           10:00am - 11:00am (HKT)

Zoom link:
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/928308079?pwd=MW9wTCtlSDd2MnViZGdNd2oreUpXZz09

Meeting ID:     928 308 079

Passcode:       20212022

Abstract:

Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced at an incredible
pace, to the point where it is making its way into our everyday lives,
explicitly and behind the scenes. However, beneath their impressive
progress, many AI models hide deficiencies that amplify social biases or
even cause fatal accidents. How do we identify, improve, and cope with
imperfect models, while still benefiting from their use? I will discuss my
work empowering humans to interact with AI models in order to debug and
correct them. I will describe both (1) how I help experts run scalable and
testable analyses on models in development, and (2) how I help end users
collaborate with deployed AI in a transparent and controllable way. In my
final remarks, I will discuss my future research perspectives on building
human-centered AI through data-centric approaches.


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Biography:

Sherry Tongshuang Wu is a final year Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science &
Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Jeffrey Heer and
Dan Weld. She received her B.Eng in CSE from the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology. Her research lies at the intersection of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP),
and aims to empower humans to debug and correct AI models interactively,
both when the model is under active development, and after it is deployed
for end users. Sherry has authored 19 papers in top-tier NLP, HCI and
Visualization conferences and journals such as ACL, CHI, TOCHI, TVCG, etc,
including a best paper award (top-1) and an honorable mention (top-3). You
can find out more about her at https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~wtshuang/
[homes.cs.washington.edu].