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Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction
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Traditionally, machine learning algorithms relied on reliable labels from experts to build predictions. More recently however, algorithms have been receiving data from the general population in the form of labeling, annotations, etc. The result is that algorithms are subject to bias that is born from ingesting unchecked information, such as biased samples and biased labels. Furthermore, people and algorithms are increasingly engaged in interactive processes wherein neither the human nor the algorithms receive unbiased data. Algorithms can also make biased predictions, leading to what is now known as algorithmic bias. On the other hand, human's reaction to the output of machine learning methods with algorithmic bias worsen the situations by making decision based on biased information, which will probably be consumed by algorithms later. Some recent research has focused on the ethical and moral implication of machine learning algorithmic bias on society. However, most research has so far treated algorithmic bias as a static factor, which fails to capture the dynamic and iterative properties of bias. We argue that algorithmic bias interacts with humans in an iterative manner, which has a long-term effect on algorithms' performance. For this purpose, we present an iterated-learning framework that is inspired from human language evolution to study the interaction between machine learning algorithms and humans. Our goal is to study two sources of bias that interact: the process by which people select information to label (human action); and the process by which an algorithm selects the subset of information to present to people (iterated algorithmic bias mode). We investigate three forms of iterated algorithmic bias (personalization filter, active learning, and random) and how they affect the performance of machine learning algorithms by formulating research questions about the impact of each type of bias. Based on statistical analyses of the results of several controlled experiments, we found that the three different iterated bias modes, as well as initial training data class imbalance and human action, do affect the models learned by machine learning algorithms. We also found that iterated filter bias, which is prominent in personalized user interfaces, can lead to more inequality in estimated relevance and to a limited human ability to discover relevant data. Our findings indicate that the relevance blind spot (items from the testing set whose predicted relevance probability is less than 0.5 and who thus risk being hidden from humans) amounted to 4% of all relevant items when using a content-based filter that predicts relevant items. A similar simulation using a real-life rating data set found that the same filter resulted in a blind spot size of 75% of the relevant testing set.
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The paper proposes an iterated-learning framework to study how algorithmic and human biases interact and evolve in recommendation/filtering loops. Across synthetic and MovieLens simulations, iterated filter bias consistently shifted learned relevance boundaries, increased prediction inequality, and enlarged blind spots that hide relevant items, while random selection and active learning often did not.
Key findings
- Iterated filter bias had significant effects in 2D synthetic data: boundary shift p<.001, effect size = 1.96; class-1 blind spot p=2.4e-10, effect size = -1.22; all-classes blind spot p=5.9e-12, effect size = -1.44. Active learning and random selection did not significantly affect boundary shift (p=.15 and .77, respectively).
- On MovieLens real data, filter bias significantly decreased points predicted as class y=1 (p=7.1e-15, ES=1.88), increased class-1 blind spot (p=7.0e-15, ES=-1.89), and increased Gini inequality (p=7.7e-15, ES=-1.83); active learning also affected boundary shift and blind spot, while random selection did not significantly affect boundary or blind spot but decreased inequality.
- The abstract reports a relevance blind spot of 4% of all relevant items for a content-based filter in one simulation, and a blind spot size of 75% of the relevant testing set in a similar simulation using a real-life rating data set.
- Initial class imbalance and human action mattered: imbalanced initialization significantly affected boundary shift for all three bias modes (Kruskal-Wallis p=5.5e-19 filter, 3.27e-17 active learning, 1.34e-15 random); higher human action probability increased filter-bias boundary shift (p_action=1: p=0.4e-11, ES=3.087; p_action=0.5: p=1.8e-6, ES=0.87; p_action=0.01: p=.259). With class-dependent human action ratio 10:1, filter bias increased class-1 blind spot (p=1.1e-10, ES=-1.2) and random selection decreased it (p=.0008, ES=0.7).
Methods
- The authors use an iterated-learning framework inspired by language evolution, simplifying recommendation into a two-class classification problem (relevant/non-relevant) with a Naive Bayes classifier. They compare three selection mechanisms: random, active-bias, and filter-bias; human action probabilities of 1, 0.5, and 0.01; and a class-dependent action ratio of 10:1, running 200 iterations and 40 independent simulations per condition.
- Synthetic data: 2D Gaussian classes centered at {-2,0} and {2,0} with σ=1 and 1000 points per class, split into testing (200/class), validation (200/class), initialization ratios 10/100, 100/100, and 100/10, plus 3D, 4D, and 10D synthetic sets. Real data: MovieLens with 100,004 ratings on 9,125 movies from 671 users; user 547 (2,312 movies rated; 18 genres after filtering; PCA to 11 features) was studied first, then 7 more users; ratings were discretized as [1,3]=class 0 and (3,5]=class 1, with unbiased initialization only.
- Main analyses measure boundary shift, Gini coefficient, and blind spot size (δ=0.5), using Shapiro-Wilk, Mann-Whitney U, t-test, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, and effect sizes.
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- The paper states future work will extend the framework to more users in a collaborative filtering setting, test additional parameters/configurations such as top-N recommendation list size and different active learning types beyond uncertainty-based active learning, and conduct human experiments similar to the simulated research questions.
- Evident from the text: the findings rely on simulations rather than human experiments, use a simplified two-class content-based recommendation setup with Naive Bayes and independent-feature assumptions, and the real-data experiments focus on one user at a time and only the 8 most active MovieLens users, with genres as item features and PCA.
- Evident from the text: for the real-life data set, the authors only explore unbiased initialization and assume action probabilities of 1, so human-action and class-imbalance effects are not tested on the real data.
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“Our findings indicate that the relevance blind spot (items from the testing set whose predicted relevance probability is less than 0.5 and who thus risk being hidden from humans) amounted to 4% of all relevant items when using a content-based filter that predicts relevant items.”
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“Despite the small effect, the iterated algorithmic bias forms affect this distribution in different ways, and iterated filter bias causes the largest heterogeneity level as can be seen in Fig 6.”
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“On the other hand, the boundary shift of filter bias has a big difference when the ratio is 1:10, indicating that filter bias has a dramatic impact on the boundary shift when the imbalanced initialization ratio is high and more points are from the irrelevant class.”
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“In all cases and regardless of whether extreme filtering, AL, or random selection is used to collect feedback from the user, the initial class imbalance has a significant impact on the shift in the learned model’s boundary between relevant and non-relevant items.”
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“The results indicate significant differences for the filter bias condition (p <.001 by Mann-Whitney test or t-test, effect size = 1.96).”
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“Filter bias has significant effects on the class-1-blind spot, while random selection and active learning do not have a significant effect on the class-1-blind spot size (see Fig 7).”
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“Filter bias, on the other hand, results in decreasing numbers of points predicted in the target category class 1, consistent with an overly restrictive category boundary.”
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“The Number of label-changed points with ratio = 10:1 is higher than 2 for ratio = 1:1 in the iterated filter bias mode, and a similar result can be seen with iterated active learning bias and iterated random selection (see Fig 9).”
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“Fig 5 shows that random selection and active learning bias converge to the ground-truth boundary.”
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“Both Filter bias and active learning bias show no significant difference between the two ratios.”
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“Both active learning and random selection decrease the inequality.”
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“Table 16 shows that there is a significant increase in the class-1 blind spot sizes in the testing set for iterated filter bias and active learning bias.”
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“On the other hand, random selection decreases the class-1 blind spot size.”
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“Both iterated filter bias and iterated active learning bias have a significantly effect on the boundary shift”
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“We conclude that both iterated filter bias and iterated active learning bias have a significantly effect on the boundary shift, while random selection does not have a significant effect.”
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“while both active learning and random selection result in a significant decrease in the Gini coefficient.”
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“Both Filter bias and active learning bias show no significant difference between the two ratios.”
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“For both filter bias and active learning, the number of points predicted as class y = 1, with and without the class-dependent human action probability, show no significant difference.”
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“The p-value is 3.4e-15 (<0.01), which indicates that they have different effects on the boundary shift (see Fig 12).”
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“while both active learning and random selection show a significant decrease in the Gini coefficient”
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“Common to both recommender systems and information filters is: (1) selection, of a subset of data about which people express their preference, by a process that is not random sampling, and (2) an iterative learning process in which people’s responses to the selected subset are used to train the algorithm for subsequent iterations.”
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“The data used to train and optimize performance of these systems are based on human actions. Thus, data that are observed and omitted are not randomly selected, but are the consequences of people’s choices.”
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“However, most research has so far treated algorithmic bias as a static factor, which fails to capture the dynamic and iterative properties of bias.”
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“we observe that most previous research has treated algorithmic bias as a static factor, which fails to capture the iterative nature of bias that is borne from continuous interaction between humans and algorithms.”
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“We argue that algorithmic bias interacts with humans in an iterative manner, which has a long-term effect on algorithms’ performance.”
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“We argue that algorithmic bias evolves with human interaction in an iterative manner, which may have a long-term effect on algorithm performance and humans’ discovery and learning.”
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“On the other hand, human’s reaction to the output of machine learning methods with algorithmic bias worsen the situations by making decision based on biased information, which will probably be consumed by algorithms later.”
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“Perfors et al. showed that, when certain assumptions about the independence of language and the world are abandoned, the learners converge to languages that depend on the structure as well as their prior biases [78].”
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- Not checked yetcites [78] A Perfors, 2014, Language evolution can be shaped by the structure of the world, Cognitive science source
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“More specifically in our setting, there is a dependency between the previous output and the next input, and it is this dependency that can generate iterated bias.”
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“Specifically, the selection of relevant data allows the possibility of learning that an input that is predicted to be relevant is not, but does not allow the possibility of learning that an input that is predicted to be irrelevant is actually relevant.”
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“By deriving the transition matrices implied by iterated application of data selection biases, we can see that both active learning and filtering have different goals, but focus on an ever more extreme (and therefore not representative) subset of data.”
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“After sufficient iterations, this process generates a certain hypothesis. This iterated learning chain is expected to converge the hypothesis to the prior distribution of all hypotheses in case that the learner is a Bayesian learner [69].”
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- Not checked yetcites [69] TL Griffiths, 2005
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“Generally, selecting biased training samples leads to a biased model [96].”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Related work > Relationship between iterated algorithmic bias and other types of bias
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- Not checked yetcites [96] Heckman JJ. Sample selection bias as a specification error (with an application to the estimation of labor supply functions); 1977. source
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“For a rating based recommendation system, the ranking is based on the prediction from the system, or the probability of relevance from prediction. In both situations, the selected data point x is likely to be highly rated or relevant, given h.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Iterated algorithmic bias in online learning > Iterated learning with iterated filter-bias dependency
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [2] SE Robertson, 1977, The probability ranking principle in IR, Journal of documentation source
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“Alternatively, the utility of acting may depend on the value of y*. For example, it may be that there is greater perceived utility in acting when the value of y* is very low, as in the case of an angry customer or disappointed user.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Iterated algorithmic bias in online learning > Iterated learning with human action bias
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“The post-algorithmic bias emerges when users interpret the output of machine learning algorithms [97–100].”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Related work > Relationship between iterated algorithmic bias and other types of bias
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- Not checked yetcites [97] Baeza-Yates R. Data and algorithmic bias in the web. In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM; 2016. p. 1–1. source
- Not checked yetcites [98] Pedreshi D, Ruggieri S, Turini F. Discrimination-aware data mining. In: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM; 2008. p. 560–568. source
- Not checked yetcites [99] White R. Beliefs and biases in web search. In: Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. ACM; 2013. p. 3–12. source
- Not checked yetcites [100] M Ayub, 2019, Modeling user rating preference behavior to improve the performance of the collaborative filtering based recommender systems, PloS one source
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“Iterated learning was found to produce meaningful structure patterns in language learning [72–76].”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Related work > Iterated learning and language evolution
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- Not checked yetcites [72] S Kirby, 2014, Iterated learning and the evolution of language, Current opinion in neurobiology source
- Not checked yetcites [73] S Kirby, 2008, Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences source
- Not checked yetcites [74] ML Kalish, 2007, Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review source
- Not checked yetcites [75] Smith K. Iterated learning in populations of Bayesian agents. In: Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of the cognitive science society. Citeseer; 2009. p. 697–702.
- Not checked yetcites [76] K Smith, 2003, Iterated learning: A framework for the emergence of language, Artificial life source
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“The selection of inputs depends on the hypothesis, and therefore information is not unbiased, p(x|hn)≠q(x).”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Iterated algorithmic bias in online learning > Iterated learning with iterated filter-bias dependency
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“The limiting behavior depends on the iterated active learning bias, . This is, in most cases, in opposition to the goal of filtering, the algorithm will only select data point(s) which are closest to the learned model’s boundary, if we are learning a classifier for example.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Iterated algorithmic bias in online learning > Iterated learning with iterated active-bias dependency
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“Humans’ choices, when labelling data, are also highly non-random, and would reflect not only their opinions about the presented content, but also inferences about why the content was presented.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Introduction
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“Finally, the bias that is introduced into the data at any point can be amplified after retraining models and this in turn would further impact the predictions or recommendations.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Introduction
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“Language learning and machine learning have several properties in common (see Fig 1). For example, a ‘hypothesis’ in language is analogous to a ‘model’ in machine learning. Learning a language which gets transmitted throughout consecutive generations of humans is analogous to learning an online model throughout consecutive iterations of machine learning [69].”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Related work > Iterated learning and language evolution
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- Not checked yetcites [69] TL Griffiths, 2005
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“One reason is that recommendation systems have more direct interaction options with humans, while information retrieval focuses on getting relevant information only.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Related work > Relationship between iterated algorithmic bias and other types of bias
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“Unlike standard learning theory, the training data are no longer randomly sampled. This in return puts in questions the guarantees about learning from such data.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Introduction
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“Either of the individual sources of bias could yield instability, thus motivating the need for a better understanding of the performance of such systems in the context of human-algorithm interactions.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Introduction
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“where the choice of whether to act depends on the relative utility of acting as opposed to not acting. For example, if it is especially effortful to act, then people will be biased against acting.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Iterated algorithmic bias in online learning > Iterated learning with human action bias
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“This means that the nature of the model, and hence which items will be judged to be relevant to the user, changes depending on the iterated algorithmic bias, with filtering bias exerting the biggest influence.”
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“indicating that the nature of the model, and hence which items will be judged to be relevant to the user, changes depending on the iterated algorithmic bias, with filtering bias exerting the biggest influence.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
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“Active learning aims to help learn correct boundary, therefore it highly depends on the initial data points.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
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- Rests on an assumption: Active learning aims to help learn the correct boundary.
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“Active learning affects points close to the boundary, thus it has limited effects overall.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
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- Rests on an assumption: Active learning bias already prefers points that are close to the boundary.
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“Therefore, it slightly decreases the inequality.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
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- Rests on an assumption: Random selection with class-dependent human action probability prefers points from class y = 1, however randomly.
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“Thus we conclude that human action affects the boundary shift: the more frequent human action is, the more significant is the effect on the boundary shift for only the iterated filter algorithmic bias.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
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People and algorithms are increasingly engaged in interactive processes wherein neither the human nor the algorithms receive unbiased data.
“Furthermore, people and algorithms are increasingly engaged in interactive processes wherein neither the human nor the algorithms receive unbiased data.”
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A Bayesian model for prediction is assumed for the algorithm.
“Following Griffiths’ model for human learners, we assume a Bayesian model for prediction.”
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People's response is always observed in the above analysis.
“The above analysis assumes that people’s response is always observed.”
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People have some target hypothesis h*, which represents optimal performance for the algorithm.
“Assume that people have some target hypothesis, h*, which represents optimal performance for the algorithm.”
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A simplified algorithm where only the very uncertain data are selected, and a mixture of random sampling and active learning, is assumed.
“Assuming a simplified algorithm where only the very uncertain data are selected, we can investigate the limiting behavior of an algorithm with the active learning bias. Assuming a mixture of random sampling and active learning, we obtain:”
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The choice of whether to act can be formalized using Luce choice, a special case of softmax.
“We can formalize this choice using Luce choice [56], a special case of softmax [137]”
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The synthetic dataset represents a typical classification problem and is comparable to the real-life dataset after selecting one user and corresponding items.
“The synthetic dataset represents a typical classification problem, it is the same for our real-life dataset after selecting one user and corresponding items.”
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In the real world, some data can be invisible to some users because of bias either from users or from the algorithm itself.
“In the real world, some data can be invisible to some users because of bias either from users or from the algorithm itself.”
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Class imbalance can emerge from the algorithm intentionally asking users to rate only the most popular items, a common strategy used to collect initial ratings for new users.
“Class imbalance can also emerge from the algorithm intentionally asking users to rate only the most popular items, a common strategy used to collect initial ratings for new users.”
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In RQ2, humans have a prior probability to act that is not dependent on the true label of the item presented.
“In research question 2 (RQ 2), we assumed that humans have a prior probability to act which is not dependent on the true label of the item presented.”
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Humans have a higher probability to label or rate when the item presented is from relevant class y = 1.
“we try to simulate this by assuming that humans have a higher probability to label or rate when the item presented is from relevant class y = 1 (see Eq 15).”
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Filter bias already prefers points from class y = 1.
“since filter bias already prefers points from class y = 1.”
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Active learning bias already prefers points that are close to the boundary.
“since this bias already prefers points that are close to the boundary.”
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Both random selection and active learning are used to build an accurate model in machine learning.
“both random selection and active learning are used to build an accurate model in machine learning.”
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Random selection with class-dependent human action probability prefers points from class y = 1, however randomly.
“Random selection with class-dependent human action probability prefer points from class y = 1, however randomly.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Active learning aims to help learn the correct boundary.
“Active learning aims to help learn correct boundary”
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Humans and AI algorithms are both increasingly intertwined in feedback loops that end up feeding biased data to both humans and algorithms.
“Humans and AI algorithms are both increasingly intertwined in feedback loops that end up feeding biased data to both humans and algorithms.”
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“but it is possible for algorithmic bias to occur even with unbiased training data if the model’s design or decision-making mechanisms introduce bias [54,55].”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
“On the other hand, there is no significant difference with active learning bias and random selection.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
“| Mann-Whitney test p-value | 7.1e- 15 | 0.002 | 0.42 | | t-test p-value | 7.6e- 25 | 0.0004 | 0.84 |”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
“Table 16 shows that there is a significant increase in the class-1 blind spot sizes in the testing set for iterated filter bias and active learning bias.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
“Both random selection and active learning do not have a significant impact. | | Filter Bias | Active Learning | Random Selection | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Mann-Whitney test p-value | 7.0e- 15 | 0.0002 | 0.15 | | t-test p-value | 4.2e- 26 | 0.0001 | 0.46 | | effect size | -1.89 | 0.66 | 0.16 |”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Experimental data sets
“User 547 has rated 2312 movies throughout the 10 years.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on the real-life data set
“| User ID = 547 | 2391 | 1409 | 982 | FB | (7.6e-25, 1.88) | (4.2e-26, -1.89) | (7.4e-25, -1.83) |”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“Filter bias has significant effects on the class-1-blind spot, while random selection and active learning do not have a significant effect on the class-1-blind spot size (see Fig 7).”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“| Mann-Whitney test p-value | 2.4e-10 | 0.03 | 0.06 | | t-test p-value | 2.2e-10 | 0.03 | 0.06 |”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“The other bias modes are not affected by different human action probabilities.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“| paction = 1 | Mann-Whitney test p-value | 0.4e- 11 | 0.9e- 5 | 0.486 | | paction = 1 | t-test p-value | 7.1e- 14 | 0.002 | 0.52 |”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“For AL, the effect size has the opposite sign (positive) implying a significant decrease in hidden items (both relevant and non-relevant) based on the Mann-Whitney U test.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“| Mann-Whitney test p-value | 5.9e-12 | 0.5 | 0.47 | | t-test p-value | 1.4e-19 | 0.18 | 0.13 | | effect size | -1.44 | -0.3 | -0.29 |”
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§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“The negative effect size for filter bias shows that it decreases the number of points which are predicted to be in class y = 1.”
§ Evolution and impact of bias in human and machine learning algorithm interaction > Results > Experiments on 2D synthetic data
“| effect size | 1.6 | -0.2 | -1.1 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sun, W., Nasraoui, O., & Shafto, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Louisville (US)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Nasraoui, Olfa
- Venue
- PLOS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- e0235502
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7425868
- OpenAlex
- W3048367007
- Semantic Scholar
- fba50a0f6e7f1bb47e80ffa8c523396aa747a6ae
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 173
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 19.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (1549981)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Algorithms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Keywords
- algorithmic bias, human-machine interaction, iterated learning, filter bubbles, personalization, active learning (machine learning), class imbalance, personalized interfaces, information filtering, relevance prediction
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Humans, Learning, Bias
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