“Who is the right homeless client?”: Values in Algorithmic Homelessness Service Provision and Machine Learning Research

D Showkat, ADR Smith, W Lingqing, A To - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Homelessness presents a long-standing problem worldwide. Like other welfare services,
homeless services have gained increased traction in Machine Learning (ML) research …

A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Homelessness Research

ESY Moon, S Guha - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Homelessness is a humanitarian challenge affecting an estimated 1.6 billion people
worldwide. In the face of rising homeless populations in developed nations and a strain on …

A feeling for the data: How government and nonprofit stakeholders negotiate value conflicts in data science approaches to ending homelessness

SC Slota, KR Fleischmann, MK Lee… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Governmental and organizational policy increasingly claims to be data‐driven, data‐
informed, or knowledge‐driven. We explore the data practices of local governments and …

Improving algorithmic decision–making in the presence of untrustworthy training data

W Qi, C Chelmis - 2021 IEEE international conference on big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although data quality is of paramount importance in algorithmic decision–making, most
existing methods for supervised classification use training data without ever questioning …

Towards Algorithmic Reform: Low-Income Individuals Inclusion in AI/ML Literacy and Ethical Values-Informed Tool Design

D Showkat - Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Poverty in the US is not invisible. A large number of Americans are low-income and
experience homelessness. This population relies on scarce-resourced public services for …

The Human Behind the Data: Reflections from an Ongoing Co-Design and Deployment of a Data-Navigation Interface for Front-Line Emergency Housing Shelter Staff

TW Masrani, HA He, G Messier - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
On any night in Canada, at least 35,000 individuals experience homelessness. These
individuals use emergency shelters to transition out of homelessness and into permanent …

Label Denoising and Counterfactual Explanation with A Plug and Play Framework

W Qi, C Chelmis - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most supervised classification methods assume perfect training data, although this is not
usually the case in the real–world. Meanwhile, counterfactual data generation approaches …

[BOG][B] Learning From Hierarchical and Noisy Labels

W Qi - 2023 - search.proquest.com
One branch of machine learning algorithms is supervised learning, where the label is crucial
for the learning model. Numerous algorithms have been proposed for supervised learning …