The 1st Muslims in ML Workshop at NeurIPS 2020

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Time: 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM EST

MusIML is an affinity workshop for the NeurIPS community. We focus on both the potential for advancement and harm to Muslims and those in Muslim-majority countries who religiously identify, culturally associate, or are classified by proximity, as “Muslim”.

The workshop will feature a combination of pre-recorded and live talks, followed by a panel discussion with authors on the intersection of policy, technology, and Muslim communities.

Invited Speakers

1. Abubakar Abid: Investigating Anti-Muslim Bias in GPT-3 through Words, Images and Stories
2. Darren Byler: The Digital Enclosure of Turkic Muslims in Northwest China
3. Mona Diab: Data Paucity and Low Resource Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities
4. Samhaa El-Beltagy: NLU Meets Islamic Religious Phrases: Highlighting the Challenges
5. Anver Emon: Taking from the Hands that Give: CRA audits of Muslim-led Charities
6. Dia Kayyali: The Intersection of Policy, Technology, and Muslims
7. Roya Pakzad: The Intersection of Policy, Technology, and Muslims
8. Ted Pedersen: Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media
9. Nayel Shafei: Creating Multilingual Corpora for Arabic Characterset

Themes

Language and Speech: Many Muslim-majority groups communicate in languages that use Arabic character sets, yet there is a gap in machine learning tools that work well in these environments. The following invited talks explore solutions:

• Abubakar Abid: Investigating Anti-Muslim Bias in GPT-3 through Words, Images, & Stories
• Nayel Shafei: Creating Multilingual Corpora for Arabic Characterset
• Mona Diab: Data Paucity and Low Resource Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities
• Samhaa El-Beltagy: NLU Meets Islamic Religious Phrases: Highlighting the Challenges

Algorithmic Bias: These talks explore how algorithms are used to discriminate against Muslim individuals and communities in different contexts:

• Anver Emon: Taking from the Hands that Give: CRA audits of Muslim-led Charities
• Ted Pedersen: Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media
• Darren Byler: The Digital Enclosure of Turkic Muslims in Northwest China

Organizers

• Marzyeh Ghassemi (UToronto)
• Mohammad Norouzi (Google Brain)
• Shakir Mohamed (DeepMind)
• Aya Salama (Aigorithm)
• S. M. Ali Eslami (DeepMind)
• Tasmie Sarker (UToronto)

Schedule

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