What Do Algorithmic Fairness and COVID-19 Case-Severity Prediction Have in Common?

Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_alyuZULYI



Duration: 35:01
1,314 views
16


In this episode of Simons Institute Polylogues, Shafi Goldwasser (Director, Simons Institute) interviews Guy Rothblum (Weizmann Institute) about a new research collaboration applying techniques from the field of algorithmic fairness to determine which patients are most likely to develop severe cases of COVID-19.

REFERENCES

“Multicalibration: Calibration for the (Computationally-Identifiable) Masses,” by Úrsula Hébert-Johnson, Michael P. Kim, Omer Reingold, Guy N. Rothblum [https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08513]

“Addressing Bias in Prediction Models by Improving Subpopulation Calibration,” Noam Barda, Noa Dagan, Guy N. Rothblum, Gal Yona, Eitan Bachmat, Philip Greenland, Morton Leibowitz, Ran Balicer [under submission]

COVID-19 collaboration [https://www.themarker.com/news/health/1.8708713]:

Clalit Research Institute:
Adi Berliner, Amichai Akriv, Anna Kuperberg, Dan Riesel, Daniel Rabina, Galit Shaham, Ilan Gofer, Mark Katz, Michael Leschinski, Noa Dagan, Noam Barda, Oren Auster, Reut Ohana, Shay Ben-Shachar, Shay Perchik Uriah Finkel, Yossi Levi.

Technion:
Daniel Greenfeld, Uri Shalit, Jonathan Somer

Weizmann Institute:
Guy Rothblum, Gal Yona




Other Videos By Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing


2020-04-20A Tale of Turing Machines, Quantum-Entangled Particles, and Operator Algebras
2020-04-15Robust Polynomial Method and a Sub-Volume Law for Locally Gapped Frustration-Free Spin Systems
2020-04-13Optimal Broadcast Encryption from Pairings and LWE
2020-04-09Secure Multi-party Quantum Computation with a Dishonest Majority
2020-04-09Quantum Speedup for Graph Sparsification, Cut Approximation and Laplacian Solving
2020-04-08NIZK from LPN and Trapdoor Hash via Correlation Intractability for Approximable Relations
2020-04-08Improved Discrete Gaussian and Subgaussian Analysis for Lattice Cryptography
2020-04-07The Digital Fence: Taiwan’s Response to COVID-19
2020-04-06Lattices, Post-Quantum Security and Homomorphic Encryption — Q&A
2020-04-06Lattices, Post-Quantum Security and Homomorphic Encryption
2020-04-03What Do Algorithmic Fairness and COVID-19 Case-Severity Prediction Have in Common?
2020-04-02Efficient Learning of Pauli Channels
2020-04-02Not All Benchmarks Are Created Equal
2020-04-02Cycle Benchmarking: The New Paradigm for Assessing All Relevant Errors and Error Correlations...
2020-04-02Cross-Platform Verification of Intermediate Scale Quantum Devices with Randomized Measurements
2020-04-01MIP* = RE: Putting Everything Together
2020-04-01MIP* = RE Part 2: PCPs and Introspection
2020-04-01The Algebraic Side of MIP* = RE
2020-04-01Quantum PCPs Meet Derandomization
2020-03-31MIP* = RE Part 1: The Quantum Low-Degree Test
2020-03-31Self-Testing as an Approach to Certifying Quantum Systems



Tags:
Simons Institute
theoretical computer science
UC Berkeley
Computer Science
Theory of Computation
Theory of Computing
COVID-19
coronavirus
algorithmic science
fairness
Guy Rothblum
Shafi Goldwasser
polylogues