In such applications, individuals should have the ability to change the decision of the model. Aida Rahmattalabi, Phebe Vayanos, Kathryn Dullerud, and Eric Rice. 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 Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. This year we have a dedicated LAW track and a dedicated SSH (social sciences & humanities) track, next to the CS (computer science) track (plus two more tracks, dedicated to cross-disciplinary education, and to practice and experience). FAccT welcomes submissions that touch on any of the topics of ACM FAccT. These tests are often run on their websites without explicit consent from users. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be FAccT* also welcomes full paper submissions that extend previously ACM ethics guidelines. It can be tempting to comment only on the weaknesses. Your video must have *embedded* captions (see next section). 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. workshop papers: ACM FAccT welcomes submission of work that has The PC will take a broad view of what constitutes What constitutes a "fair" allocation of the items among them? will shift to the new ACM workflow for article templates and publication submission. Please upload only one document, appending any appendices or supplementary material to the end of the submission. Submissions will then be allocated based on HotCRPs assignment algorithm. These reviews . If necessary, this can be escalated to the PC chairs. Authors unsure about topical fit or ethical formatting rules, or papers exceeding the specified page length, may be paper is accepted, authors will have to reformat their paper in the ACM option after submission is discouraged but justified requests from ACM FAccT 2021 offers authors the https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj T. Kamishima, P.-N. Schwab, and M. D. Ekstrand. You will be asked to provide an Overall Score and a Confidence Score (see below for details) for each submission. : 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? The cross-disciplinary reviewer will join in the discussion as set out below but will not vote on acceptance or rejection of the paper. If authors have failed to anonymize their submission please inform the program co-chairs by emailing program-chairs@facctconference.org. Such questions are not only a matter of Conference-length versions of papers that are already under review at a journal, but which have not yet been published in that journal: In such cases, authors must select the non-archival option for the FAccT submission. Abstract submission: 30 January 2023 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth. For media inquiries, please contact press@facctconference.org; HotCRP.com signin Sign in using your HotCRP.com account. Non-archival papers will only appear as abstracts in the site by submitting a tentative title and abstract and specifying their Ongoing work on public assistance for people experiencing homelessness, AI-assisted hiring, and strategies to tackle misinformation on social media. (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. 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. with the ACM ethics guidelines and what, if any, ethical challenges they placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, This years conference 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. Design slides taking into account people with Dyslexia (see e.g. We recommend using 16:9 Aspect Ratio, and minimum 1080p resolution. 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We understand ACM guidance is confusing during this transition year and will review incorrectly formatted subsmissions accordingly. decisions are made. The ACM Digital Library is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Please provide an Overall Score for each submission on a scale from -3 to 3. ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the SIGN IN Get Alerts for this Conference Save to Binder Export Citation Next Conference FAccT '23 Sponsor: He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019. Conference-length (8-10 pages) versions of papers that are while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc ACM Digital Library. For accessibility related concerns, contact inclusion@facctconference.org. choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: The non-archival option is offered to #FAccT2023 Those who do not pre-register Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2020. Try not be that reviewer! Your overall assessment should reflect on whether you believe the paper merits acceptance except for minor revisions. technical soundness. This process will enable the Program Chairs to better anticipate the submission load and to make necessary adjustments to the program committee. 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. Meta-Learned Metrics over Multi-Evolution Temporal Graphs. Email Forgot your password? Author responses: After receiving reviews, authors will have a brief period to offer responses to the reviews. He. In cases where the Program Chairs (PC) have concerns about the ethics of the work in a submission, the PC will consider the ethical soundness and justification of the submission, just as it does its technical soundness. And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference. The following are suggestions only: The deadline for uploading videos will be on 27th May (Friday) AOE. research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. Michael Kearns,University of Pennsylvania. with the review process, authors are asked to select one or more of the Text should be dark, with lots of space around the letters, and in a legible and suitably large font. Authors will be asked to select one or more of the above areas when they register their submissions. Authors must omit their names and affiliations For LaTeX For Track Chairs and Program Chairs, it provides a basis for decision-making about a submission. 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. disclosure of audits. conference, ACM FAccT requires a broad as well as deep set of expertise Peer-reviewing and cross-disciplinary reviewing should be centered around the following objectives. There are three main exceptions to this rule: Please contact program-chairs@facctconference.org for any On submission, authors may be asked to prepare an optional, brief explanation of how their work aligns with the ACM ethics guidelines and what, if any, ethical challenges they faced in their work. Please note that in contrast to questions. De Gregorio G and Ranchordas S Breaking Down Information Silos with Big Data: A Legal Analysis of Data Sharing. KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) L. Zheng, J. Xiong, Y. Zhu, and J. Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review. Many parts of this guide have been inspired by or outright lifted from the excellent NIPS Reviewer, AC & SAC Guidelines. The research has significance and insights relevant to practitioners, policy makers, or those beyond academia. The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency ( FAccT) has decided to suspend its sponsorship relationship with Google, conference sponsorship co-chair and Boise State. and do consider changing your mind in light of their comments, if appropriate. from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, The work situates itself in the context of related work. Note that submitting 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. The research community is young but growing fast. study and development of computing as a field of knowledge and fairness, accountability and transparency (broadly construed). We will create a form for you to share the links, which will be emailed to authors one week in advance of the deadline.The form for uploading your video is here. For questions regarding registration, contact acm.facct2022@gmail.com. The recent adoption of machine learning models in high-risk settings such as medicine has increased demand for developments in privacy and fairness. . 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. We welcome submissions in the following areas: FAccT is an ACM conference about computing, dedicated to rigorous Papers on Hopin will be searchable by title, author, and will be thematically tagged. discipline-specific journals. (September 2022) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. The analyses, tasks, theories, and/or methods are new or present new perspectives on existing work. In cases where the Program Chairs (PC) have concerns about and ethnic studies, migration studies, work on disability and other Copyright 2023 ACM, Inc. To that end, if you need to cite existing work, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. The purpose of the shorter video is to increase engagement in your work. statistics, the humanities, and law. Conference site 82 papers accepted out of 330 submitted. Algorithmic oppression is then situated through a Black feminist lens part of which entails highlighting the double bind of technology. choose the archival or non-archival option. versions that are currently under review at another conference, have systems develop in relation to racism and anti-blackness? Feb 22, 2021: Our paper "One Label, One Billion Faces . 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. other forms of injustice, in society generally and within the field of Videos will also be archived on the FAccT YouTube channel after the conference. May 3, 2021: I received Northeastern's 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Award! These works may be submitted as-is or in an extended form. 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 will not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to avoid influencing their evaluations. Authors will be able to make changes to their titles and abstracts up until the full paper submission deadline, however the preliminary title and abstract should be representative of the submitted work.
field address the problems and opportunities of intersectional : How Externalities of Size Complicate Notions of Solidarity and Actuarial Fairness, Removing Spurious Features can Hurt Accuracy and Affect Groups Disproportionately, Evaluating Fairness of Machine Learning Models Under Uncertain and Incomplete Information, Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public in its Relationship with Technology Companies, The Use and Misuse of Counterfactuals in Ethical Machine Learning, Mitigating Bias in Set Selection with Noisy Protected Attributes, What We Can't Measure, We Can't Understand: Challenges to Demographic Data Procurement in the Pursuit of Fairness, Standardized Tests and Affirmative Action: The Role of Bias and Variance, The Sanction of Authority: Promoting Public Trust in AI, Algorithmic Fairness in Predicting Opioid Use Disorder using Machine Learning, Avoiding Disparity Amplification under Different Worldviews, Spoken Corpora Data, Automatic Speech Recognition, and Bias Against African American Language: The case of Habitual 'Be', All Holdings within the ACM Digital Library. Disentangling Inuence: Using disentangled representations to audit model predic- As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. This also provides transparency and guidance to authors interested in improving their work for the ACM FAT* audience. 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. towards more ethical computing scholarship in future years. Providing thorough peer reviews/cross-reviews for the authors to. Important Dates. Submissions that have placeholder titles and abstracts (e.g., concerning the areas of interest and possibly sub-disciplines) at the dedicated website. This process will enable the Program Werbach K Panopticon Reborn: Social Credit as Regulation for the Age of AI. ACM FAccT 2022 [Distinguished Paper Award] (acceptance rate: 25%) D. Fu, L. Fang, R. Maciejewski, V. Tovik, and J. learnings from this optional experiment to guide FAccT conference work Your comments should include the following sections: Please comment on and take into account the strengths of the submission. The Review of Economic Studies, 68(1):205--229, 2001. ACM FAccT 2021 is using the submission site facct2021.hotcrp.com. When consequential decisions are informed by algorithmic input, individuals may feel compelled to alter their behavior in order to gain a system's approval. maintained. Authors unsure about topical fit or ethical issues are welcome to contact the PC. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (or CHI as it's typically called) is the premier international conference for the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Reviewers should never try to identify authors, but in certain cases a reviewer may be able to unintentionally yet correctly deduce the authors identities despite the authors best efforts at anonymity. storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent if users are This booth will collect all resources (pre-recorded videos, poster, the paper itself) associated with the paper to be accessed asynchronously by all registered members of the conference, who can leave questions and comments. In Proceed- on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evalua- '21, page 610-623, New York, NY, USA. You should explain these values in the "Detailed Comments " text field. 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. After all, risk Kearns, Neel, Roth, and Wu [ICML 2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to websites or apps), or (2) rely on sensitive user data (e.g., social adjustments to the program committee. Reviewers will be invited to It is calculated by dividing the number of accepted students by the number of total applicants. We welcome contributions that consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity and justice in systems, policy, and human rights. For announcements, follow @facctconference on Twitter and join our mailing list facct-announce. The 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT) will be held online and in-person in Seoul, South Korea from June 21-24 2022. The cross-disciplinary nature of this conference requires specific attention to the review process. As a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed Further information on the expected format and In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '22, pages 1240-1256, New York, NY, USA, June 2022. Claims are well supported by theoretical analysis, evidence, argument, and/or experimental results. reconsider their reviews and scores in light of rebuttals before final Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. 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. Acceptance rates for the major top-tier AI-related conferences Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning and Learning Theory Artificial Intelligence Data Mining and Information Retrieval Speech and Signal Processing Note: 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. work. Always be constructive and help the authors understand your viewpoint, without being dismissive. and abstracts up until the full paper submission deadline, however the The work incorporates foresight on populations most likely to bear disproportionate negative effects directly related to this work. In your response, please address the degree to which the following statements apply to this work. We are concerned with complex data in which variables may take any value from a contiguous range or an additional set of discrete states. The third annual ACM FAT* Conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. Papers that are neither in ACM format nor follow the simplified formatting rules, or papers exceeding the specified page length, may be rejected without review. However, Area Chairs and Program Chairs need to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses in order to make an informed decision. and justice in systems, policy, and pedagogy. 2018. 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. Those who do not pre-register their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their paper to ACM FAccT. computing in particular. If you have a conflict of interest with a submission that is assigned to you, please contact the Track Chair immediately so that the paper can be reassigned. Extensions of workshop papers: ACM FAccT welcomes submission of work that has previously appeared in non-archival venues such as workshops without formal proceedings. It is not fair to dismiss any submission without having thoroughly read it. Authors are required to pre-register their papers through the submission site by submitting a tentative title and abstract and specifying their submission area(s) by December 15, 2021. Authors of all accepted papers must After the peer review and cross-disciplinary review phase, the Track Chair for each submission will initiate a discussion via HotCRP to encourage the reviewers to come to a consensus. Our assessments, publications and research spread knowledge, spark enquiry and aid understanding around the world. Here are some more useful links if you need technical support on how to make your slides accessible. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. Questions? (Acceptance rate: 16%) 11. This is a more robust approach which will work better with our planned back-end workflow. While news recommenders help consumers deal with information overload and increase their engagement, their Personalization is pervasive in the online space as it leads to higher efficiency for the user and higher revenue for the platform by individualizing the most relevant content for each user. chairs will make every effort to ensure that papers are reviewed by scholarship. Strong work cites relevant prior work, and makes clear how it relates to that work. The online conferenceincluding both live-streamed elements of the in-person conference, and online-only contentwill also begin on June 21, with content and discussion available for two weeks from that date, and a library of content available subsequently. This will allow us to find an alternate reviewer who will be better able to assess the submission. Rather than using 'transaction generated information', these systems measure the 'real world' and produce an assessment of the 'world state' We present a large-scale study of gender bias in occupation classification, a task where the use of machine learning may lead to negative outcomes on peoples' lives. It is okay to be unavailable for part of the review process (e.g., on vacation for a few days), but if you will be unavailable for more than that -- especially during important windows (e.g., discussion, decision-making) -- you must let the Track Chairs know. their paper is archival or non-archival. network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and Switching from archival to non-archival option after submission is discouraged, but justified requests from authors will be examined by PC Chairs on a case-by-case basis. consider dimensions beyond individual decisions, including equity You may insufficiently addressed issues in computing such as: How do algorithmic content. journal: In such cases, we require authors to select the non-archival If you need to cite existing work to justify one of your comments, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. From creating paintings to generating novel art styles, AI based generative art has showcased a variety of applications. A long line of work has therefore sought to counteract strategic behavior by designing more We study a two-stage model, in which students are 1) admitted to college on the basis of an entrance exam which is a noisy signal about their qualifications (type), and then 2) those students who were admitted to college can be hired by an employer as a We identify and explore differential access to population-level signaling (also known as information design) as a source of unequal access to opportunity.