Sihong Xie: Increasing transparency in machine learning decision-making

In machine learning, “optimization algorithms are becoming more and more important, for two reasons,” says Sihong Xie, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering. “One is that, as the data sets become larger and larger, you cannot process all the data at the same time; and the second reason is that we can formulate an optimization problem that will analyze why the machine learning algorithm makes a particular decision.”

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