Computer Vision and machine learning methods were previously used to reveal screen presence of genders in TV and movies. In this work, using head pose, gender detection, and skin color estimation techniques, we demonstrate that the gender disparity in TV in a South Asian country such as Bangladesh exhibits unique chara…
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New research shows machine-assisted decisions can still be unfair even when the algorithm is fair.
problem Ensuring fairness in decisions made with machine-assisted human input.
method Formal model and lab experiment to analyze how machine predictions affect human decisions.
result Excluding information about protected groups from machine predictions can increase disparities.
Black women and white men have the highest income disparity in the U.S.
problem Income inequality between black women and white men in the USA
method Dynamic microeconomic model, analyzing black and white population income since 1930
result Black females and white males are poles of overall income inequality
When the performance of a machine learning model varies over groups defined by sensitive attributes (e.g., gender or ethnicity), the performance disparity can be expressed in terms of the probability distributions of the input and output variables over each group. In this paper, we exploit this fact to reduce the dispa…
Study shows explanation disparities in machine learning models are influenced by data and model properties.
problem Disparities in post-hoc machine learning explanation methods across race and gender.
method Simulations and experiments on a real-world dataset to assess challenges to explanation disparities.
result Increased covariate shift, concept shift, and omission of covariates increase explanation disparities, especially for neural network models.
In the context of machine learning, disparate impact refers to a form of systematic discrimination whereby the output distribution of a model depends on the value of a sensitive attribute (e.g., race or gender). In this paper, we propose an information-theoretic framework to analyze the disparate impact of a binary cla…
Foundation models improve wage gap decomposition by capturing omitted career history factors.
problem Estimating wage disparities using incomplete career history data.
method Fine-tuning foundation models to mitigate omitted variable bias and estimate wage gaps.
result Foundation models can decompose gender wage gaps more accurately than traditional econometric methods.
Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes should not be considered. On the other hand, in order to avoid disparate impact,…
Proposes a method to quantify and decompose disparity in ML models, separating exempt and non-exempt components.
problem Quantifying disparity in ML models, especially when certain features are exempted due to their critical importance.
method Information-theoretic decomposition into exempt and non-exempt components, satisfying desirable properties.
result Proposes a measure of non-exempt disparity that satisfies all desirable properties, and shows impossibility results for observational measures.
What does it mean for an algorithm to be biased? In U.S. law, unintentional bias is encoded via disparate impact, which occurs when a selection process has widely different outcomes for different groups, even as it appears to be neutral. This legal determination hinges on a definition of a protected class (ethnicity, g…
Develops algorithm to reduce real-world inequality.
problem Reduces inequality in real-world disparities.
method Impact remediation framework using social science insights and constrained optimization.
result Optimal intervention policies discovered to improve equity.
Assessing the fairness of a decision making system with respect to a protected class, such as gender or race, is challenging when class membership labels are unavailable. Probabilistic models for predicting the protected class based on observable proxies, such as surname and geolocation for race, are sometimes used to …
New method detects bias in AI models that generate data.
problem Detecting bias in AI models that generate data.
method Formalized causal fairness in generative AI, derived new decomposition results, established identification conditions, and introduced efficient estimators.
result Demonstrated the value of new methodology in analyzing bias in large language models.
Optimal Pre-Processing to Achieve Fairness and Its Relationship with Total Variation Barycentercs.IT
Optimal pre-processing reduces disparate impact by minimizing total variation distance.
problem Achieving fairness in data outputs based on protected attributes.
method Using pre-processing to enforce fairness, minimizing total variation distance between pre-processed and original data distributions.
result The problem of fairness can be formulated as a linear program, efficiently solvable.
Differential privacy (DP) is a popular mechanism for training machine learning models with bounded leakage about the presence of specific points in the training data. The cost of differential privacy is a reduction in the model's accuracy. We demonstrate that in the neural networks trained using differentially private …
Language is increasingly being used to define rich visual recognition problems with supporting image collections sourced from the web. Structured prediction models are used in these tasks to take advantage of correlations between co-occurring labels and visual input but risk inadvertently encoding social biases found i…
We analyze and develop a quantitative model describing the evolution of personal income distribution, PID, for males and females in the U.S. between 1930 and 2014. The overall microeconomic model, which we introduced ten years ago, accurately predicts the change in mean income as a function of age as well as the depend…
Paper proposes a new algorithm to minimize AUC disparities in machine learning models.
problem Minimizing unfairness in AUC scores for machine learning models.
method Proposes a minimax learning and bias mitigation framework for AUC optimization.
result Proves the convergence of the proposed algorithm to minimize group-level AUC.
Estimating and Implementing Conventional Fairness Metrics With Probabilistic Protected Featurescs.LG
Develops methods to measure and reduce fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.
problem Measuring and reducing fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.
method Proposes methods to estimate fairness metrics and train models to limit fairness violations using probabilistic protected attribute labels.
result Our methods provide tighter bounds on true disparity and effectively reduce fairness violations with lesser fairness-accuracy trade-offs.
Fair Policy Targetingecon.EM
The paper tackles fair policy targeting by optimizing allocation rules to minimize unfairness.
problem Discrimination in individualized treatments of social welfare programs.
method Formulated as a mixed-integer linear program, solved using off-the-shelf algorithms, derived regret bounds and small sample guarantees.
result Designs fair and efficient treatment allocation rules within the Pareto frontier.
Word embedding models have become a fundamental component in a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. However, embeddings trained on human-generated corpora have been demonstrated to inherit strong gender stereotypes that reflect social constructs. To address this concern, in this paper, we propo…
Introduces MPR to measure and optimize representation across intersectional groups in retrieval.
problem Harmful stereotypes, cultural erasure, and social disparities in image search and retrieval.
method Develops MPR metric, practical estimation methods, theoretical guarantees, and optimization algorithms.
result Optimizing MPR yields more proportional representation across multiple intersectional groups, often with minimal retrieval accuracy compromise.
Deep learning improves gender classification from handwriting.
problem Classifying gender from handwritten text.
method Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for feature extraction and gender classification.
result Deep learning approach outperforms human examiners in gender classification accuracy.
In this study, we proposed a convolutional neural network model for gender prediction using English Twitter text as input. Ensemble of proposed model achieved an accuracy at 0.8237 on gender prediction and compared favorably with the state-of-the-art performance in a recent author profiling task. We further leveraged t…
Dynamic topic model improves mental health note analysis for children.
problem Lack of longitudinal topic models for psychiatric clinical notes.
method Developed a dynamic topic model with consistent topics and individualized temporal dependencies.
result Achieved a 38% increase in topic coherence.
Study evaluates gender bias in relation extraction systems.
problem Gender bias in relation extraction systems.
method Created WikiGenderBias dataset, evaluated systems for bias, analyzed bias mitigation techniques.
result NRE systems exhibit gender bias in predictions.
Reduces gender classification bias by learning race-invariant face representations.
problem Societal bias in gender recognition systems.
method Adversarially trained autoencoder model to learn race-invariant face representations.
result Achieved a significant drop of over 40% in racial bias surrogate metric with race invariant representations.
The paper studies and mitigates accuracy disparity in regression models.
problem Accuracy disparity between different demographic subgroups in high-stakes domains.
method Error decomposition theorem and distribution alignment algorithm.
result The proposed algorithm effectively mitigates accuracy disparity while maintaining predictive power.
Study predicts gender from brain FC at multiple scales using deep learning and Bayesian methods.
problem Predicting gender from brain functional connectivity.
method Deep learning and Bayesian deep learning applied to brain FC data from 1003 healthy adults.
result Bayesian deep learning provides accurate predictions and uncertainty information.
Study quantifies gender bias in language models across 7 languages.
problem Measuring gender bias in language models across multiple languages.
method Curated dataset of politicians, multilingual language models, probing language models.
result Larger language models do not show significant gender bias compared to smaller ones.
How to Measure Gender Bias in Machine Translation: Optimal Translators, Multiple Reference Pointsstat.ML
Study measures gender bias in machine translation using multiple reference points.
problem Measuring and identifying gender bias in machine translation.
method Used an optimal non-biased translator, reference points from occupational statistics and survey.
result Found bias against both genders, but more against women, and found occupations have a greater effect than adjectives.
The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. Such a danger is facing us with word embedding, a popular framework to represent text data as vectors which has been used in many machine learning and natural language processing tasks. We show that even word embeddings traine…
Neutralizing Gender Bias in Word Embedding with Latent Disentanglement and Counterfactual Generationcs.CL
New method neutralizes gender bias in word embeddings without losing semantic information.
problem Gender biases in word embeddings trained on human-generated corpora.
method Latent Disentanglement and Counterfactual Generation with siamese auto-encoder and gradient reversal layer.
result Our method outperforms existing debiasing methods in preserving semantic information and neutralizing gender biases.
We present a large-scale study of gender bias in occupation classification, a task where the use of machine learning may lead to negative outcomes on peoples' lives. We analyze the potential allocation harms that can result from semantic representation bias. To do so, we study the impact on occupation classification of…
The paper addresses fairness in dynamic pricing for strategic buyers.
problem Price disparities among specific groups can lead to unfair perceptions and legal violations.
method Proposes a dynamic pricing policy that achieves fairness and discourages strategic behavior.
result Achieves an upper bound of regret over time horizons, reducing regret by 35.06% compared to a benchmark policy.
Develops methods for fair classification under linear disparity constraints.
problem Disparate impacts of machine learning algorithms on protected groups.
method Bayes-optimal fair classification methods via pre-, in-, and post-processing.
result Explicit forms of Bayes-optimal fair classifiers under linear disparity measures.
A membership inference attack (MIA) against a machine-learning model enables an attacker to determine whether a given data record was part of the model's training data or not. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of the phenomenon of disparate vulnerability against MIAs: unequal success rate of MIAs against diff…
Following related work in law and policy, two notions of disparity have come to shape the study of fairness in algorithmic decision-making. Algorithms exhibit treatment disparity if they formally treat members of protected subgroups differently; algorithms exhibit impact disparity when outcomes differ across subgroups,…
Study decomposes racial healthcare disparities via shifts in mediator distributions.
problem Racial disparities in healthcare expenditures and their underlying drivers.
method Framework decomposing disparities into mediator distribution shifts and residual components, using MEPS data.
result Substantial disparities persist even when mediators are equalized, suggesting unmeasured or structural factors.
Bayesian model identifies health disparities in disease progression.
problem Health disparities bias disease progression models.
method Interpretable Bayesian model accounting for three disparities.
result Model identifies and corrects for health disparities.
Paper improves gender detection on social media using deep learning.
problem Traditional classifiers struggle with social media data volume.
method Ensemble deep learning with multi-model architectures.
result Improved gender detection accuracy on social media posts.
Machine learning improves risk assessment for gender-based violence victims.
problem Accurately predicting recidivism risk in gender-based crime victims.
method Applied machine learning techniques to create models predicting recidivism risk.
result Proposed ML method outperforms classical statistical methods.
Study shows label errors impact model disparity metrics, proposing mitigation methods.
problem Impact of label errors on model disparity metrics.
method Empirical study, characterizing label error effects; proposing estimation and relabeling methods.
result Label errors significantly affect model disparity metrics, particularly for minority groups.
Predicts user age and gender on Tumblr using rich content.
problem Challenges in targeting specific demographic groups on Tumblr.
method Graph based and deep learning models, including network embedding, label propagation, CNN, and MLP.
result Significantly improved accuracy for age and gender predictions.
Develops NFCF to reduce gender bias in social media recommendation systems.
problem Reduces gender bias in collaborative filtering systems on social media data.
method Pre-training and fine-tuning neural collaborative filtering with bias correction techniques.
result Achieves better performance and fairness in gender de-biased recommendations.
Study examines biases in clinical word embeddings, revealing performance gaps across groups.
problem Biases in clinical word embeddings leading to performance differences across groups.
method Pretrained BERT models on MIMIC-III, fill-in-the-blank method, fairness evaluation on clinical tasks.
result Classifiers trained from BERT representations exhibit statistically significant differences in performance across groups.
Machine learning algorithms are optimized to model statistical properties of the training data. If the input data reflects stereotypes and biases of the broader society, then the output of the learning algorithm also captures these stereotypes. In this paper, we initiate the study of gender stereotypes in {\em word emb…
Complex statistical machine learning models are increasingly being used or considered for use in high-stakes decision-making pipelines in domains such as financial services, health care, criminal justice and human services. These models are often investigated as possible improvements over more classical tools such as r…