Workshop
2nd Workshop on Practical ML for Developing Countries: Learning Under Limited/low Resource Scenarios
Esube Bekele · Waheeda Saib · Timnit Gebru · Meareg Hailemariam · Vukosi Marivate · Judy Gichoya
Fri 7 May, 7 a.m. PDT
The constant progress being made in artificial intelligence needs to extend across borders if we are to democratize AI in developing countries. Adapting the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods to resource constrained environments such as developing countries is challenging in practice. Recent breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP), for instance, rely on increasingly complex and large models (e.g. most models based on transformers such as BERT, VilBERT, ALBERT, and GPT-2) that are pre-trained in on large corpus of unlabeled data. In most developing countries, low/limited resources means hard path towards adoption of these breakthroughs. Methods such as transfer learning will not fully solve the problem either due to bias in pre-training datasets that do not reflect real test cases in developing countries as well as the prohibitive cost of fine-tuning these large models. Recent progress with focus given to ML for social good has the potential to alleviate the problem in part. However, the themes in such workshops are usually application driven such as ML for healthcare and for education, and less attention is given to practical aspects as it relates to developing countries in implementing these solutions in low or limited resource scenarios. This, in turn, hinders the democratization of AI in developing countries. As a result, we aim to fill the gap by bringing together researchers, experts, policy makers and related stakeholders under the umbrella of practical ML for developing countries. The workshop is geared towards fostering collaborations and soliciting submissions under the broader theme of practical aspects of implementing machine learning (ML) solutions for problems in developing countries. We specifically encourage contributions that highlight challenges of learning under limited or low resource environments that are typical in developing countries.
Schedule
Fri 7:00 a.m. - 7:10 a.m.
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Welcome Remarks
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Welcome Remarks
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Fri 7:10 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
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AI in Emerging Markets: Governance, Infrastructure, Language
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Invited Talk
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Mark Weber 🔗 |
Fri 7:45 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
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Zero-shot spoken language understanding for English-Hindi: An easy victory against word order divergence
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Contributed Talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Judith Gaspers 🔗 |
Fri 8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
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Automated Detection of Food Water-Borne Parasites in Low Cost Smartphone Microscope Image
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Contributed Talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Bishesh Khanal 🔗 |
Fri 8:15 a.m. - 9:18 a.m.
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Poster Session
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Poster Session+ Coffee Break
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Fri 8:15 a.m. - 8:22 a.m.
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Boosting Classification Accuracy of Fertile Sperm Cell Images leveraging cDCGAN
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Dipam Paul 🔗 |
Fri 8:22 a.m. - 8:29 a.m.
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Prediction of Tuberculosis using U-Net and segmentation techniques
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Dennis Núñez-Fernández 🔗 |
Fri 8:29 a.m. - 8:36 a.m.
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Detection of COVID-19 Disease using Deep Neural Networks with Ultrasound Imaging
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Dennis Núñez-Fernández 🔗 |
Fri 8:36 a.m. - 8:43 a.m.
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Fairly Estimating Socioeconomic Status Under Costly Feature Acquisition
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Kush R Varshney 🔗 |
Fri 8:43 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
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ANEA: Distant Supervision for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Michael Hedderich 🔗 |
Fri 8:50 a.m. - 8:57 a.m.
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PROBLEM AND SOLUTION DOCUMENTATION TEMPLATE FOR MACHINE LEARNING COMPETITIONS TO ENHANCE EXPLAINABILITY, REPRODUCIBILITY, AND COLLABORATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Oluwaseun Hamzat 🔗 |
Fri 8:57 a.m. - 9:04 a.m.
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Data-driven Weight Initialization with Sylvester Solvers
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Debasmit Das 🔗 |
Fri 9:04 a.m. - 9:11 a.m.
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Computationally Accelerating Protein-Ligand Docking for Neglected Tropical Diseases: a case study on Drug Repurposing for Leishmaniasis
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Hassan Kane 🔗 |
Fri 9:11 a.m. - 9:18 a.m.
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Bambara Language Dataset for Sentiment Analysis
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Poster Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
chayma fourati 🔗 |
Fri 9:25 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Optimizing for Human-centric AI in the Global South
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Invited Talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Chinasa Okolo 🔗 |
Fri 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
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Efficient Click-Through Rate Prediction for Developing Countries via Tabular Learning
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Contributed Talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Buru Chang · Joonyoung Yi 🔗 |
Fri 10:20 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
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Research and Challenges of ML/AI against COVID-19 and Climate Change in the context of Developing Countries
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Panel Discussions
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Fri 11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
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Closing Remarks
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Closing Remarks
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