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Datasheets for Datasets

Timnit Gebru, Jamie Morgenstern, Briana Vecchione, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach, Hal Daumé III, Kate Crawford · Communications of the ACM (CACM) (2021)

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Principal Contribution

Proposed standardizing documentation for machine learning datasets inspired by hardware electronics datasheets, detailing motivation, composition, collection, and ethical considerations.

Operational Relevance

Serves as qualified reference for implementing task-data-validation in production systems.

Assumptions

  • Underlying computational topology and mathematical bounds adhere to established convexity/smoothness guarantees

Limitations

  • Hardware runtime speedups, privacy budgets, and convergence depend on hyperparameters and network communication limits

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