Machine learning is rapidly becoming an integral component of sociotechnical systems. Predictions are increasingly used to grant beneficial resources or withhold opportunities, and the consequences of such decisions induce complex social dynamics by changing agent outcomes and prompting individuals to proactively respond to decision rules. This introduces challenges for standard machine learning methodology. Static measurements and training sets poorly capture the complexity of dynamic interactions between algorithms and humans. Strategic adaptation to decision rules can render statistical regularities obsolete. Correlations momentarily observed in data may not be robust enough to support interventions for long-term welfaremits of traditional, static approaches to decision-making, researchers in fields ranging from public policy to computer science to economics have recently begun to view consequential decision-making through a dynamic lens. This workshop will confront the use of machine learning to make consequential decisions in dynamic environments. Work in this area sits at the nexus of several different fields, and the workshop will provide an opportunity to better understand and synthesize social and technical perspectives on these issues and catalyze conversations between researchers and practitioners working across these diverse areas.
| Welcome and introduction (Live intro) | |
| Invited Talk 1: What do we want? And when do we want it? Alternative objectives and their implications for experimental design. (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Invited Talk 2: Country-Scale Bandit Implementation for Targeted COVID-19 Testing (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Q&A for invited talks 1&2 (Q&A session) | |
| Poster Session 1 (Poster session) | |
| Break 1 (Break) | |
| Introduction of invited speakers 3, 4 (Live intro) | |
| Invited Talk 3: Modeling the Dynamics of Poverty (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Invited Talk 4: From Moderate Deviations Theory to Distributionally Robust Optimization: Learning from Correlated Data (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Q&A for invited talks 3, 4 (Q&A session) | |
| Contributed Talk 1: Fairness Under Partial Compliance (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Contributed Talk 2: Better Together? How Externalities of Size Complicate Notions of Solidarity and Actuarial Fairness (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Contributed Talk 3: Algorithmic Recourse: from Counterfactual Explanations to Interventions (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Q&A for contributed talks 1,2,3 (Q&A session) | |
| Break 2 (Break) | |
| Introduction of invited speakers 5, 6, 7 (Live intro) | |
| Invited Talk 5: What are some hurdles before we can attempt machine learning? Examples from the Public and Non-Profit Sector (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Invited Talk 6: Unexpected Consequences of Algorithm-in-the-Loop Decision Making (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Invited Talk 7: Prediction Dynamics (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Q&A for invited talks 5, 6, 7 (Q&A session) | |
| Break 3 (Break) | |
| Contributed Talk 4: Strategic Recourse in Linear Classification (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Contributed Talk 5: Performative Prediction in a Stateful World (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Contributed Talk 6: Do Offline Metrics Predict Online Performance in Recommender Systems? (Prerecorded talk) | |
| Q&A for contributed talks 4, 5, 6 (Q&A session) | |
| Poster Session 2 (Poster session) | |
| Wrap up (Live wrap up) | |