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Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

5 accepted papers

2026

Position: Explainability Research Must Prioritize Foundations over Ad-hoc Methods

ICML 2026poster

Despite the proliferation of Explainable AI (XAI) techniques—from feature attributions to sparse autoencoders—explanations rarely influence real-world workflows. In practice, they are often generated and discarded without guiding meaningful action. This gap reflects foundational shortcomings: resear…

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2025

Machine Unlearning Doesn't Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy and Research

NeurIPS 2025oral

"Machine unlearning" is a popular proposed solution for mitigating the existence of content in an AI model that is problematic for legal or moral reasons, including privacy, copyright, safety, and more. For example, unlearning is often invoked as a solution for removing the effects of specific infor…

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2025

Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge

ICML 2025poster

The measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems lack sufficient scientific rigor, leading to what has been described as "a tangle of sloppy tests [and] apples-to-oranges comparisons" (Roose, 2024). In this position paper, we argue that the ML community would benefit from l…

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2020

No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning

ICML 2020poster

We study online learning settings in which experts act strategically to maximize their influence on the learning algorithm’s predictions by potentially misreporting their beliefs about a sequence of binary events. Our goal is twofold. First, we want the learning algorithm to be no-regret with respec…

2017

A Decomposition of Forecast Error in Prediction Markets

NeurIPS 2017poster

We analyze sources of error in prediction market forecasts in order to bound the difference between a security's price and the ground truth it estimates. We consider cost-function-based prediction markets in which an automated market maker adjusts security prices according to the history of trade. W…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar