The results or conclusions are important for the FAccT academic field. ACM FAT* 2020 is using the FAT Conf 2020 HotCRP. 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. Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. published short papers or abstracts, even if they appeared in formal 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. Papers may also be formatted simply in two-column Note that submitting research for approval by each authors institutional ethics review body (IRB) may be necessary in some cases, but by itself may not be sufficient. The claims/arguments are explored in sufficient depth. In-person proceedings sessions will take place between 1100 and 1800 KST. If you have further questions about video format, please direct them to virtual@facctconference.org. Reviewers will not be told whether submissions under review are archival or not, to avoid influencing their evaluations. 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. Although these systems may bring myriad benefits, they also contain inherent risks, such as codifying and entrenching biases; reducing accountability, and hindering due process; they also increase the information asymmetry between individuals whose data feed into these systems and big players capable of inferring potentially relevant information. Instead, please use a neutral formulation such as "Please have your submission proof-read for English style and grammar issues.". and abstracts up until the full paper submission deadline, however the 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. statistics, the humanities, and law. Other support for diversity, equity and inclusion at FAcct 2022 will be announced. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the third-person. Recently, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have been severely criticized by policy makers, and media watchdog groups for allowing fake news stories to spread unchecked on their platforms. Engage actively in the discussion phase for each of the submissions that you are assigned, even if you are not specifically prompted to do so by the corresponding track chair. Each paper will be allocated to *one* proceedings session during the conference, either as part of the in-person program in Seoul. Write thoughtful and constructive reviews. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. On submission, authors may be gender/LGBTQ studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, racial It will help the Area Chairs and Program Chairs decide whether to accept the submissions. New York, NY, June 15, 2022 - 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. Keep in mind that reviewers are not obligated to read the appendix or supplementary materials. Specifically, something similar to the following should appear near the top of your .tex document \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart}. Take your job seriously and be fair. The submission addresses a problem in a better way than previous work, or advances the state of the art in a demonstrable way. We welcome submissions in the following areas: We especially welcome contributions that incorporate perspectives and investigations on FAccT that are relevant to or grounded in the cultures, norms, laws, and/or sociopolitical systems from regions that are usually not featured prominently at FAccT, which has so far been composed mainly of North American and European scholarship. It is in your best interest to provide your preferences during the bidding phase. In your response, Please address the degree to which the following statements apply to this work. 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. Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. last year, papers and position papers are in scope for the 26 Written by Views 58 I am pleased to share that our paper "A Scalable and Dynamic ACL System for In-Network Defense" (named PortCatcher) is accepted in CCS 2022 !. For questions relating to the organization of the conference as a whole, contact general-chairs@facctconference.org. paper is accepted, authors will have to reformat their paper in the ACM 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. FAccT '21: 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency Virtual Event Canada March 3 - 10, 2021 ISBN: 978-1-4503-8309-7 Published: 01 March 2021 Sponsors: ACM Recommend ACM DL ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER? ACM FAccT maintains the confidentiality of submitted material. This paper critically examines arguments against independence, a measure of group fairness also known as statistical parity and as demographic parity. The purpose of the shorter video is to increase engagement in your work. Please describe and consider the strengths of the submission. from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying statements. technical soundness. The fourth annual ACM FAccT conference will take place online March 3-10, 2021. ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the 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: Online presentations may be either live or pre-recorded. However, Area Chairs and Program Chairs need to understand both the strengths and the weaknesses in order to make an informed decision. submissions violate our dual submission policy and will be removed from Each paper will be reviewed by members of the program committee. format, with one inch margins, 9 point Times New Roman font. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. We will expand on this below. Contrastive Learning with Complex Heterogeneity. Many powerful computing technologies rely on implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. which area your submission fits under, feel free to contact the Program The ACM CHI Conference, 'CHI2021', Online Virtual Conference. ACM FAccT maintains confidentiality of submitted material. Aida Rahmattalabi, Phebe Vayanos, Kathryn Dullerud, and Eric Rice. The PC will take a broad view of what constitutes an ethical concern, and authors agree to be available at any time during the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC regarding ethical considerations. Area Chairs should return their meta-reviews by April 5 11:59 pm AoE. 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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. with the review process, authors are asked to select one or more of the If you believe a paper requires significant revision, or that you would need to review the outcome of the revision in order to vote to accept the paper, you should generally vote to reject. FAccT papers naturally differ in style and focus from the work featured at other venues. in length. (September 2022) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. The University of California suspended through 2024 the requirement that applicants from California submit SAT scores, upending the major role standardized testing has played in college admissions. ACM Reviewers and Area Chairs will be asked to review responses and consider updating their reviews in light of the provided information prior to final decisions. The research community is young but growing fast. concerns in paper reviews, authors will have an opportunity to You should not let the authors identities influence your decision in any way. network information), must follow basic precepts of ethical research and Note that submitting present their work at the FAccT 2021 conference, regardless of whether The following are suggestions only: The deadline for uploading videos will be on 27th May (Friday) AOE. an ethical concern, and authors agree to be available at any time during Reviewers will be invited to Area chairs will be listed on the FAccT website prior to the paper submission deadline. It can be tempting to comment only on the weaknesses. relevant journal's submission policies. He. (Acceptance rate: 16%) 11. A variety of programs are available to embed captions into your videos. 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 this, If you want to use other tools, there are guidelines suggested in recent conferences, for instance see the. We show through theory and experiment that gradient-based explanations of a model quickly reveal the model itself. In 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT '22, pages 1240-1256, New York, NY, USA, June 2022. Authors are not required or expected to submit a response. Google Scholar Cross Ref; It builds on the success of the 2020 conference held in Barelona, and is the first conference under the new name! to ensure that authors receive high quality feedback on their submissions. A natural remedy is to remove such features from the model. Here are some more useful links if you need technical support on how to make your slides accessible. 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. As calls for fair and unbiased algorithmic systems increase, so too does the number of individuals working on algorithmic fairness in industry. ACM FAT * is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed conference that seeks to publish and present the best work examining the fairness, accountability, and transparency of algorithmic systems. If you have thoughts and suggetions about this years conference, please fill out this form or be in touch by emailing the ACM FAccT 2021 General Co-chairs William Isaac, Madeleine Clare Elish, and Richard Zemel at general-chairs@facctconference.org. Submissions that have "placeholder" titles and abstracts (e.g., "TBA") or none at all at the abstract submission deadline may be deleted. Note: If you feel that your confidence rating is likely to be a 1 at the end of a review due to your lack of expertise in the given subject area, you should notify the Track Chair as early as possible in the process. IL , Submissions that do not comply with this policy will be rejected without review. ACM FAccT 2022 offers authors the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions: In previous years, most authors used the archival option. When appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a subsection describing these issues. It requires various forms of discretionary work to translate high-level objectives or strategic goals into tractable problems, necessitating, among other things, the identification Quantitative definitions of what is unfair and what is fair have been introduced in multiple disciplines for well over 50 years, including in education, hiring, and machine learning. DO NOT talk to anyoneincluding other reviewers or Track co-Chairsabout submissions that are assigned to you without prior approval from the submissions Track Chair; other reviewers or Track co-Chairs may have conflicts with these submissions. site by submitting a tentative title and abstract and specifying their What constitutes a "fair" allocation of the items among them? FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency June 27 - 30, 2023 Chicago , IL , USA We understand ACM guidance is confusing during this transition year and will review incorrectly formatted subsmissions accordingly. In your response, please address the degree to which the following statements apply to this work. Under no circumstances should you attempt to find out the identities of the authors for any of your assigned submissions (e.g., by searching on Google or arXiv). the review process to rapidly respond to queries from the PC regarding Authors are also responsible for ensuring that submitting to FAccT would not be in violation of the relevant journal's submission policies. register for, (virtually) attend, and present the work at the conference You will be asked to provide a Confidence Score between 1 and 5 for each submission, which concerns the level of confidence you have in your own expertise regarding the topic of the submission. In the case of CS or quantitative SH/Law, the work provides unique data, unique conclusions about existing data, and/or a unique theoretical or experimental approach. Research challenges are not limited to technological solutions regarding potential bias, but include the question of whether decisions should be outsourced to data- and code-driven computing systems. Options and templates are available for both Word and LaTeX users. will shift to the new ACM workflow for article templates and publication FAccT is an FAccT is an ACM conference and as such, we will review papers in alignment with the Bidding. that investigate core assumptions and propose alternative designs, Note that all submissions will have the same page length requirements and will be judged by the same quality standards, regardless of whether the authors choose the archival or non-archival option. from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, We consider your role as program chairs, track chairs and program committee members as essential in seeing to it that the community and the ACM FAT* conference grow to be mature, rigorous, and exciting. compare the submission to other submissions. To that end, if you need to cite existing work, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. 9. The work incorporates foresight on populations most likely to bear disproportionate negative effects directly related to this work. In this light, we especially welcome attention to Submitted papers must be 12-15 pages (including all figures and tables) in the new single column format, plus unlimited pages for references. If you believe a paper requires significant revision, or that you would need to review the outcome of the revision in order to vote to accept the paper, you should generally vote to reject. Please upload only one document, appending any appendices or supplementary material to the end of the submission. Switching from archival to non-archival scholarship. content. avoid precluding the future submission of these papers to preliminary title and abstract should be representative of the submitted For LaTeX 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. Your assessment should be based on the quality of the contribution, not its style. 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). 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. In keeping with our roots in computing, we appreciate both systems USA, Front matter (Title, Copyright, Contents, Welcome from General Chairs, Welcome from the Program Chairs), FAccT '23: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Model Reconstruction from Model Explanations, Actionable Recourse in Linear Classification, Efficient Search for Diverse Coherent Explanations, On Human Predictions with Explanations and Predictions of Machine Learning Models: A Case Study on Deception Detection, 50 Years of Test (Un)fairness: Lessons for Machine Learning, Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems, Clear Sanctions, Vague Rewards: How China's Social Credit System Currently Defines "Good" and "Bad" Behavior, A Taxonomy of Ethical Tensions in Inferring Mental Health States from Social Media, Dissecting Racial Bias in an Algorithm that Guides Health Decisions for 70 Million People, Disparate Interactions: An Algorithm-in-the-Loop Analysis of Fairness in Risk Assessments, An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning, The Profiling Potential of Computer Vision and the Challenge of Computational Empiricism, Bias in Bios: A Case Study of Semantic Representation Bias in a High-Stakes Setting, Equality of Voice: Towards Fair Representation in Crowdsourced Top-K Recommendations, Analyzing Biases in Perception of Truth in News Stories and Their Implications for Fact Checking, On Microtargeting Socially Divisive Ads: A Case Study of Russia-Linked Ad Campaigns on Facebook, SIREN: A Simulation Framework for Understanding the Effects of Recommender Systems in Online News Environments, Controlling Polarization in Personalization: An Algorithmic Framework, Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems, Fair Allocation through Competitive Equilibrium from Generic Incomes, A Moral Framework for Understanding Fair ML through Economic Models of Equality of Opportunity, Beyond Open vs. Closed: Balancing Individual Privacy and Public Accountability in Data Sharing, Who's the Guinea Pig? papers will be reviewed by experts on the topic, from disciplines as building, analysis, and practical impact alongside psychological, ACM ethics guidelines. Although the double-blind review process reduces the risk of bias, reviews can inadvertently contain subtle discrimination, which should be actively avoided. Michael Kearns,University of Pennsylvania. Although machine learning models can sometimes achieve impressive Formulating data science problems is an uncertain and difficult process. Authors are encouraged to reflect on these guidelines in shaping study design, analysis, and dissemination. Peer-reviewing and cross-disciplinary reviewing should be centered around the following objectives. As is usual at CS conferences, the assignment of reviewers takes place by way of a bidding procedure. subscribe to community norms. Optionally, authors can upload supplementary materials (e.g., Videos will also be archived on the FAccT YouTube channel after the conference. (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. New York, NY, February 25, 2021 - The 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FAccT) , to be held virtually from March 3-10, brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should be made in the (27.9% acceptance rate). You should rename your videos as YOUR_PAPERID-SHORT.mp4 and YOUR_PAPERID-LONG.mp4, for example 1234-SHORT.mp4 and 1234-LONG.mp4. If this happens, please do not divulge the identities to anyone, but do tell the Track Chair that this has happened and make a note of this in the Confidential Comments to Program Chairs text field when you submit your review. content of author rebuttals will be provided when the rebuttal period proceedings, if they are accepted. computing in particular. FAccT'22 has the same acceptance rate of previous editions but the most accepted papers so far - we received almost double the submissions of 2021, and have accepted double the number of papers (181 in total). This typically corresponds to about 8,000 words for the main One should be 3-4 minutes long. 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. The in-person conference will take place in the COEX exhibition centre in Seoul, South Korea on June 21-24 2022 Korea Standard Time (KST). Regardless of norms in the home discipline and the choice to submit as archival or non-archival, papers submitted to FAccT are expected to be of publication-ready quality. highway 101 washington conditions ryzen 5 3600 rtx 3060 bottleneck calculator best nashville hot chicken in nashville reddit Strong work cites relevant prior work, and makes clear how it relates to that work. Important Dates. FAccT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency Fairness, Equality, and Power in Algorithmic Decision-Making. The Overall Score for each submission should reflect your assessment of the submissions contributions. Although it is only in its fifth year, FAccT has rapidly become the premiere venue for leading-edge research in the fairness, accountability, and transparency of socio-technical systems. This section can be used to provide additional context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. Authors are also responsible for As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. Conference-length (8-10 pages) versions of papers that are The third annual ACM FAT* Conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. Please ensure your videos have *embedded* captions. These reviews . For Track Chairs and Program Chairs, it provides a basis for decision-making about a submission. will appear in the published proceedings of the conference, if they are paper to ACM FAccT. This section can be used to provide additional Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. They should be respected and taken into account, but their comments should not be confused with the peer review. 9%! Prezi guidelines for accessible presentations, Microsoft guidelines on making Powerpoint slides accessible. Conference site 82 papers accepted out of 330 submitted. As of May 9, about 65% of registrations include in-person attendance. 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. Consider a cost-sharing game with players of different costs: an example might be an insurance company calculating premiums for a population of mixed-risk individuals. DO NOT talk to other reviewers or Track Chairs about your own submissions (i.e., submissions you are an author on) or submissions with which you have a conflict. Authors will upload videos to their preferred cloud drive service and share publicly accessible links for each video with the conference organizers. placed at risk, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, Your comments should be detailed, specific, and polite. Beginning next year, submissions for FAccT 2022 ACM FAccT solicits work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities, and policy, and multidisciplinary scholarships on fairness, accountability and transparency in computational systems (broadly construed). Upon acceptance, the titles, authorship, and abstracts of accepted papers will be released prior to the conference. These include: compliance with applicable laws, respect for privacy, secure storage of sensitive data, voluntary and informed consent when appropriate, avoiding deceptive practices when not essential, beneficence (maximizing the benefits to an individual or to society while minimizing harm to the individual), risk mitigation, and post-hoc disclosure of audits. context but not reduce a submission's chance of acceptance. Submitted papers must be 8-10 Paper submission: 6 Feburary 2023 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth. judiciously. If you need to cite existing work to justify one of your comments, please be as precise as possible and give a complete citation. This is partly due to the fact that most fairness metrics of interest depend on both the sensitive attribute information and label information of the data points. Our results speak to a tension between the desire to keep a proprietary model secret and the ability to offer model explanations. The work is a novel combination of well-known research. All references . 2.556; the score needed to be in the top 25.7% (acceptance rate for CHI2019). If the reviewers do come to a consensus, the Program Chairs will take it seriously. KDD 2022 (acceptance rate: 14.99%) decisions are made. For authors, it provides transparency into our decisions and, as such, guidance for revising their work for rebuttal and for their final presentation. You can read more on any of the above points here. their submission by the stated deadline will be unable to submit their We are concerned with complex data in which variables may take any value from a contiguous range or an additional set of discrete states. These works may be submitted as-is or in an extended