Agency in Collaborative Learning

This workshop will consider developing and facilitating collaborative learning systems to reflect desired social and economic principles. Analyzing and addressing such concerns is paramount for the ongoing success of collaborative learning and for the development of new systems that give participants greater agency over their involvement. In particular, existing deployments of federated learning tend to take participation as given, and measure success through simple, aggregate system-wide statistics. In this workshop we will consider novel formulations, analyses, and perspectives that can help to realize a new generation of collaborative learning systems that enable individuals to have agency over their participation, provide rigorous guarantees for participating individuals, and consider more granular metrics of performance that reflect the experience at the level of each individual entity.