Faculty: Meisam Razaviyayn
Project Description: The goal of this project is to train neural networks using measures of performance other than accuracy in the presence of content-shifts. This is particularly important in applications such as classification of hateful/misinformation posts on social media platforms. In this application, the number of positive samples (sample posts containing misinformation) is small compared to the entire number of samples. Hence non-decomposable measures of performance, such as AUROC or accuracy at the top, are needed for auto-enforcement of the integrity-related policies on social media platforms. However, these measures of performance are vulnerable to content shifts. Our goal is to develop scalable algorithms for training neural networks based on measures of performance related to accuracy at the top. Furthermore, the resulting model needs to be robust against content-shifts. This is because the topic of misinformation changes over social media platforms over time.
Related Background: Basic knowledge of machine learning and neural networks. Being familiar with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Prerequisites: Machine Learning, PyTorch, TensorFlow
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