Muslims in ML

NeurIPS 2023 Workshop, New Orleans, USA.


Schedule

Our workshop will host a mix of invited talks, contributed posters, and mentorships sessions (tentative schedule below). All times are in Central Standard Time (i.e., local time in New Orleans).

Time Event
8:30am - 8:45am Registration
8:45am - 9:00am Opening remarks
9:00am - 9:30am Keynote 1: Lama Ahmad. Red Teaming Generative AI Systems
9:30am - 9:45am Contributed lightning talks
  Kumail Alhamoud. Unraveling the Effects of Age-Based Distribution Shifts on Medical Image Classifiers
  Razan Baltaji. Muslim-Violence Bias Persists in Debiased GPT Models
  Gasser Elbanna. Towards Understanding Speaker Identity Coding in Data-driven Speech Models
9:45am - 10:05am Coffee break
10:05am - 10:35am Keynote 2: Marzyeh Ghassemi. The Pulse of Ethical Machine Learning in Health
10:35am - 11:05am Keynote 3: Hadi Salman. Adversarial Examples Beyond Security
11:05am - 11:45pm Poster session
11:45am - 12:15pm Keynote 4: Afra Feyza Akyürek. Editing Language Models with Natural Language Feedback
12:15pm - 1:00pm Roundtable discussions
  Table 1: How to deal with biases, stereotypes, and disinformation in ML?
  Table 2: Researcher growth and development as an early stage researcher
  Table 3: Opportunities for collaboration and building ML communities in Muslim countries
  Table 4: Mental health and building a supportive academic culture/community

Posters

In-person posters

Towards Understanding Speaker Identity Coding in Data-driven Speech Models. Gasser Elbanna, Fabio Catania, Satrajit Ghosh.

Building Domain-Specific LLMs Faithful To The Islamic Worldview: Mirage or Technical Possibility? Shabaz Basheer Patel, Mohamed Kane.

Unraveling the Effects of Age-Based Distribution Shifts on Medical Image Classifiers. Kumail Alhamoud, Yasir Ghunaim, Motasem Alfarra, Philip Torr, Thomas Hartvigsen, Bernard Ghanem, Adel Bibi, Marzyeh Ghassemi.

Qalama: Towards Semantic Autocomplete System for Indonesian Quran. Rian Adam Rajagede, Kholid Haryono, Rochana Hastuti.

Muslim-Violence Bias Persists in Debiased GPT Models. Babak Hemmatian, Razan Baltaji, Lav Varshney.

Virtual posters

Explainable Identification of Hate Speech towards Islam using Graph Neural Networks. Azmine Toushik Wasi.

DGCF: Deep Graph-based Collaborative Filtering recommender system. Sofia Bourhim.

Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Ground Vehicles Design in Nigeria. Memunat A Ibrahim.

Geosemantic Surveillance And Profiling Of Abduction Locations And Risk Hotspots Using Print Media Reports. Toyib Ogunremi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi, David Akanji.

MED-NAS-Bench: Towards a Multi-task Neural Architecture Search Benchmark for Advancing Medical Imaging Analysis. Hadjer Benmeziane, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Hamza Ouarnoughi, Smail Niar.