Lectures
This is an overview of the content covered in the lectures:
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| 2021-08-24 2021-08-26 | Logistics + Introduction to Provenance & Explanations | We will discuss the logistics of the course and will gain a basic understanding of what provenance and explanations are and what they are used for. Furthermore, we will cover the generic W3C Prov model for provenance, learn about basic requirements for fine-grained provenance, and cover basics about intervention-based techniques for explanations (and provenance.
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| 2021-08-31 2021-09-02 | Provenance Models | We will learn about provenance models for relational queries and updates, their advantages and drawbacks, and how they are related to each other.
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| 2021-09-07 2021-09-09 | Explanations | We will learn about different types of explanations including counterfactual explanations, explanations as summarization, and attribution techniques like Shapley values.
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| 2021-09-14 2021-09-16 | Hypothetical Reasoning: What-If and How-To | We will learn about hypothetical reasoning. In what-if analysis we postulate some hypothetical change to the input of a computation and want to understand how this change effects the output of the computation. In How-to analysis we want to achieve a particular change to the output of a computation and want to find a change to the computation's input that results in the desired outcome.
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| 2021-09-21 | Explaining Missing Answers | We will learn about query-based and data-based explanations for missing answers..
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| 2021-09-23 2021-09-28 | Provenance Capture & Management | We will learn about how to efficiently capture provenance information, how to compactly store it, and how to efficiently query it.
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| 2021-09-30 2021-10-05 | Building Provenance-Aware & Explanation-Ready Systems | We will learn how to build provenance-aware and explanation-ready system and discuss the challenges with making such systems efficient and usable.
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