Michelle Lam

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PhD student @ Stanford HCI!
social computing, human-centered AI, algorithmic fairness (+ dance, design, doodling!) | she/her
Websitehttp://michelle123lam.github.io
Twitter@michelle123lam
Show threadMichelle LamApr 3, 2023
Our tool helped ML practitioners create multiple models for detecting hateful memes in just 30 mins, exploring 130+ concepts. Instead of tunneling on technical details, they focused on user harms to inform their models and identified data representativity & labeling issues.
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Show threadMichelle LamApr 3, 2023
We introduce model sketching, a technical framework that lets ML practitioners express modeling ideas purely in terms of human-understandable concepts, but brings them to life as functional “sketch” models that they can evaluate and iterate on in early-stage model design.
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Michelle LamApr 3, 2023
When building ML models, we often get pulled into technical implementation details rather than deliberating over critical normative questions. What if we could directly articulate the high-level ideas that models ought to reason over? #CHI2023 🧵
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