Diversified Ensembling: An Experiment in Crowdsourced Machine Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10795v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:20:43 GMT
• Title: Diversified Ensembling: An Experiment in Crowdsourced Machine Learning
• Authors: Ira Globus-Harris, Declan Harrison, Michael Kearns, Pietro Perona, Aaron Roth
• Abstract summary: In arXiv:2201.10408, the authors developed an alternative crowdsourcing framework in the context of fair machine learning. We present the first medium-scale experimental evaluation of this framework, with 46 participating teams attempting to generate models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Crowdsourced machine learning on competition platforms such as Kaggle is a popular and often effective method for generating accurate models. Typically, teams vie for the most accurate model, as measured by overall error on a holdout set, and it is common towards the end of such competitions for teams at the top of the leaderboard to ensemble or average their models outside the platform mechanism to get the final, best global model. In arXiv:2201.10408, the authors developed an alternative crowdsourcing framework in the context of fair machine learning, in order to integrate community feedback into models when subgroup unfairness is present and identifiable. There, unlike in classical crowdsourced ML, participants deliberately specialize their efforts by working on subproblems, such as demographic subgroups in the service of fairness. Here, we take a broader perspective on this work: we note that within this framework, participants may both specialize in the service of fairness and simply to cater to their particular expertise (e.g., focusing on identifying bird species in an image classification task). Unlike traditional crowdsourcing, this allows for the diversification of participants' efforts and may provide a participation mechanism to a larger range of individuals (e.g. a machine learning novice who has insight into a specific fairness concern). We present the first medium-scale experimental evaluation of this framework, with 46 participating teams attempting to generate models to predict income from American Community Survey data. We provide an empirical analysis of teams' approaches, and discuss the novel system architecture we developed. From here, we give concrete guidance for how best to deploy such a framework.

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