Pitfalls in Machine Learning Research: Reexamining the Development Cycle
Appeared In: NeurIPS Conference
Publication Date: December 2020
Applied machine learning research has the potential to fuel further advances in data science, but it is greatly hindered by an ad hoc design process, poor data hygiene, and a lack of statistical rigor in model evaluation. Recently, these issues have begun to attract more attention as they have caused public and embarrassing issues in research and development. Drawing from their experience as machine learning researchers, Biderman and Scheirer follow the applied machine learning process from algorithm design to data collection to model evaluation, drawing attention to common pitfalls and providing practical recommendations for improvements. At each step, case studies are introduced to highlight how these pitfalls occur in practice, and where things could be improved.
"Pitfalls in Machine Learning Research: Reexamining the Development Cycle," Stella Biderman, Walter J. Scheirer, Proceedings of the I Can't Believe It's Not Better! Workshop (ICBINB@NeurIPS 2020), December 2020.