Workshop
3rd Workshop on practical ML for Developing Countries: learning under limited/low resource scenarios
Esube Bekele · Celia Cintas · Timnit Gebru · Judy Gichoya · Meareg Hailemariam · Waheeda Saib · Girmaw Abebe Tadesse
Fri 29 Apr, 6 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 mean a hard path towards the 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, policymakers, 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 6:00 a.m. - 6:10 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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Introduction
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Fri 6:10 a.m. - 6:45 a.m.
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How else can we think about creating ground truth datasets to answer research questions?
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Keynote
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SlidesLive Video |
Raesetje Sefala 🔗 |
Fri 6:45 a.m. - 7:20 a.m.
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Private and Efficient On-Device Machine Learning
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Keynote
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SlidesLive Video |
Hamed Haddadi 🔗 |
Fri 7:20 a.m. - 8:20 a.m.
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Panel Discussion: Data-centric and Trustworthy AI for limited resource settings
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Panel Discussion
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Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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Early Crop Type Classification with Satellite Imagery - An Empirical Analysis
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Poster
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Lukas Kondmann · Sebastian Boeck · Rogerio Bonifacio · Xiaoxiang Zhu 🔗 |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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AI-powered understanding of family planning behavioural change using the Fogg Model
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Poster
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11 presentersWuraola Oyewusi · Olubayo Adekanmbi · Mary Ide Salami · David Oden · Amina Mardiyyah Rufai · Emmanuel Akeweje · Dominique Meekers · Olaniyi Olutola · Chidinma Onuoha · William Sambisa · Masduk Abdulkarim |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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What Should I Grow Today so I Make Money Tomorrow? Supporting Small Farmers’ Crop Planning with Social, Environmental, and Market Data
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Poster
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Aviva Prins · Christine Herlihy · John P Dickerson 🔗 |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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Detecting Respiratory Insufficiency by Voice Analysis: The X Project
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Poster
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17 presentersSandra Maria Aluísio · Larissa Berti · Augusto Camargo · Arnaldo Candido Junior · Edresson Casanova · Flaviane R. Fernandes Svartman · Ricardo Corso Fernandes · Marcelo Finger · Alfredo Goldman · Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris · Pedro Leyton Pereira · Anna Sara Shafferman Levin · Marcelo Matheus Gauy · Marcelo Queiroz · Beatriz Raposo de Medeiros · Ester Sabino · Daniel Peixoto Pinto da Silva |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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KDSTM: Neural Semi-supervised Topic Modeling with Knowledge Distillation
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Poster
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Weijie Xu · Xiaoyu Jiang · Jay Desai · Bin Han · Fuqin Yan · Francis Iannacci 🔗 |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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From MICCAI to AFRICAI: African Network for Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging
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Poster
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11 presentersKarim Lekadir · Celia Cintas · Noussair Lazrak · Jihad Zahir · Tinashe Mutsvangwa · Mohammed El Hassouni · Mustafa Elattar · Islem Rekik · Madete June · Julia Schnabel · Yunusa Garba Mohammed |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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Few-Shot Filtering for the Detection of Specialized Change in Remote Sensing
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Poster
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Martin Hermann · Sudipan Saha · Xiaoxiang Zhu 🔗 |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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CHALLENGES OF INFERRING HIGH-RESOLUTION POVERTY MAPS WITH MULTIMODAL DATA
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Poster
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Lisette Espín Noboa · Janos Kertesz · Marton Karsai 🔗 |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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FRONTIERS IN DIABETIC RETINOPATHY SCREENING: DEVELOPMENT OF A RETINAL IMAGE PROCESSING PIPELINE
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Poster
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Christabel Sitienei 🔗 |
Fri 8:20 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
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Attention-Free Keyword Spotting
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Poster
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Mashrur Mahmud Morshed · Ahmad Omar Ahsan 🔗 |
Fri 9:40 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
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Machine Learning in Argentina: Challenges, coping mechanisms, and ethics
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Keynote
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SlidesLive Video |
Luciana Benotti 🔗 |
Fri 10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Encoding Upper Nasal Airway Structure with U-Net for respiratory healthcare applications
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Bruno Pazos · Pablo Navarro · Soledad De Azevedo · Claudio Delrieux · Rolando González-José 🔗 |
Fri 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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Detecting landfills using multi-spectral satellite images and deep learning methods
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Anupama Rajkumar · Andras Majdik 🔗 |
Fri 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Surrogate Ensemble Forecasting for Dynamic Climate Impact Models
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Julian Kuehnert · Deborah McGlynn · Sekou L. Remy · Anne Jones · Aisha Walcott-Bryant 🔗 |
Fri 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
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WHY SO INFLAMMATORY? EXPLAINABILITY IN AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF INFLAMMATORY SOCIAL MEDIA USERS
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Cuong Nguyen · Daniel Nkemelu · Michael Best · Ankit Mehta 🔗 |
Fri 11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Barriers and opportunities to improve renal outcomes in South Africa using AI technology for pediatric ultrasound interpretation
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Lauren Erdman · Karen Milford · Zubrina Solomon · Mandy Rickard · Armando Lorenzo · Andrew Grieve · Anna Goldenberg 🔗 |
Fri 12:00 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.
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Carative AI
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Keynote
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SlidesLive Video |
Kush R Varshney 🔗 |
Fri 12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
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Closing talk
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