Xindi Wang

Exploring Text Specific and Blackbox Fairness Algorithms in Multimodal Clinical NLP

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Clinical machine learning is increasingly multimodal, collected in both structured tabular formats and unstructured forms such as freetext. We propose a novel task of exploring fairness on a multimodal clinical dataset, adopting equalized odds for …

L2P: Learning to Place for Estimating Heavy-Tailed Distributed Outcomes

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Many real-world prediction tasks have outcome variables that have characteristic heavy-tail distributions. Examples include copies of books sold, auction prices of art pieces, demand for commodities in warehouses, etc. By learning heavy-tailed distributions, "big and …