Twitter is teaming up with researchers at the University of California-Berkeley to establish a new research initiative focused on studying and improving the performance of machine learning in social networks.
Profs. Moritz Hardt and Ben Recht will lead the initiative.
Teams from UC Berkeley and Twitter will look to combine the social network’s data and real-world insights with fundamental and applied research components.
Algorithms will be top-of-mind, as Twitter staff machine learning engineer Naz Erkan and senior director of software engineering Sandeep Pandey wrote in a blog post, “Today, the consequences of exposing algorithmic decisions and machine learning models to hundreds of millions of people are poorly understood.
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