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Designing Data: Proactive Data Collection and Iteration for Machine Learning

Lack of diversity in data collection has caused significant failures in machine learning (ML) applications. While ML developers perform post-collection interventions, these are time intensive and rarely comprehensive. Thus, new methods to track and manage data collection, iteration, and model training are necessary for evaluating whether datasets reflect real world variability. We present designing data, an iterative, bias mitigating approach to data collection connecting HCI concepts with ML techniques. Our process includes (1) Pre-Collection Planning, to reflexively prompt and document…

Co-ML: Collaborative Machine Learning Model Building for Developing Dataset Design Practices

Machine learning (ML) models are fundamentally shaped by data, and building inclusive ML systems requires significant considerations around how to design representative datasets. Yet, few novice-oriented ML modeling tools are designed to foster hands-on learning of dataset design practices, including how to design for data diversity and inspect for data…

January 30, 2024

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Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy

Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot demonstrations is labor-intensive, requiring expensive tele-operated data collection which is difficult to scale. This paper investigates a more scalable data source, egocentric human demonstrations, to serve as…

May 22, 2025

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From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix

By Dao Mi, Pablo Delgado, Ryan Berti, Amanuel Kahsay, Obi-Ike Nwoke, Christopher Thrailkill, and Patricio GarzaAt Netflix, data engineering has always been a critical function to enable the business’s ability to understand content, power recommendations, and drive business decisions. Traditionally, the function centered on building robust tables and pipelines to capture…

August 22, 2025

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AI Generated Robotic Content