The paper proposes Tier Balancing for dynamic fairness in decision-making.
problem Achieving long-term fairness in decision-making processes.
method Causal modeling with DAGs to investigate dynamic fairness.
result Tier Balancing is a more natural approach to achieve long-term fairness, capturing latent causal factors.
Proposes a variational framework for fair clustering.
problem Ensuring fairness in clustering algorithms.
method Integrates fairness term with clustering objectives, using variational approach.
result Derives tight upper bound for optimization, enabling scalable solution.
Unified framework for fair pricing in long-term insurance products.
problem Unclear generalization of fair pricing methods to long-term products.
method Reformulate multi-state transition models as Poisson regression problems.
result Direct application of existing fair pricing methods to long-term insurance products.
The paper examines how slightly biasing towards under-represented groups in sequential selection processes can lead to long-term fairness.
problem Designing fair sequential decision-making processes for long-term social fairness.
method Proposes Multi-agent Fair-Greedy policy to balance score maximization and fairness.
result Proves convergence to long-term fairness target set by agents when score distributions are identical.
Differentially private fair binary classification algorithm developed.
problem Balancing privacy and fairness in binary classification.
method Decoupling technique for fairness, refinement for differential privacy.
result Algorithm maintains fairness, privacy, and utility guarantees.
New algorithm tackles fairness in multi-armed bandit problem.
problem Fairness in stochastic multi-armed bandit problem.
method Characterized a class of Fair-SMAB algorithms with two parameters.
result Achieves O(log(T)) r-Regret with UCB1 learning algorithm.
New fair PCA method using streaming algorithms with statistical guarantees.
problem Perform PCA while ensuring fair projected distributions.
method Formulated new notion PAFO learnability, proposed fair noisy power method (FNPM) for memory efficiency.
result First statistical guarantee for fair PCA in streaming setting.
New algorithm tackles fairness in multi-armed bandit problem.
problem Fairness constraints in multi-armed bandit.
method Characterized Fair-SMAB algorithms with fairness tolerance and learning algorithm parameters.
result Achieves O(lnT) r-Regret with UCB1 learning algorithm. Causal models help ensure fairness in systems with changing environments.
problem Ensuring fairness in systems with dynamic, long-term effects.
method Causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to model fairness and manipulate causal assumptions.
result Causal assumptions enable simulation and off-policy estimation of interventions.
Online TERM improves robustness and fairness in streaming data.
problem Streaming data's lack of worst-case fairness and robustness in ERM.
method Proposes an online TERM formulation to balance average-case accuracy with worst-case fairness and robustness.
result Negative tilting effectively suppresses outlier influence, positive tilting improves recall with minimal precision loss.
Extends ML fairness to handle minority groups over time.
problem Limitations of existing fairness criteria.
method Performative Distributionally Robust Optimization.
result Improves fairness for minority groups over time.
Unified framework for fair representation learning in machine learning.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models, especially when biased data representations lead to unfair predictions.
method Integrates nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction with deep learning to construct fair and informative representations, introducing a penalty term to enforce conditional independence between sensitive attributes and learned representations.
result Achieves a superior balance between fairness and utility, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines on various data structures.
Unified framework TERM improves fairness and robustness.
problem Outliers and subgroup fairness in empirical risk minimization.
method Unified framework TERM with a hyperparameter tilt.
result TERM improves fairness and robustness.
Project fair estimators while maintaining accuracy.
problem Making estimators fair without sacrificing accuracy.
method Optimal transport tools to find closest fair estimator.
result Efficiently constructs fair estimators with quantified cost.
Algorithm improves movie recommendation efficiency with fairness constraints.
problem Improving movie recommendation efficiency with fairness constraints in combinatorial semi-bandits.
method Adopted Thompson Sampling with beta priors and Bernoulli likelihoods to handle fairness constraints.
result Time-averaged regret upper bounded by $\frac{N}{2η} + O\left(\frac{\sqrt{mNT\ln T}}{T}
ight)$, with fairness constraints satisfied.
Unified approach for fair classification with overlapping groups.
problem Ensuring fairness across multiple overlapping groups in prediction problems.
method Probabilistic population analysis leading to Bayes-optimal classifier, unifying existing methods.
result Outperforms baselines in fairness-performance tradeoff on real datasets.
We study fairness in collaborative-filtering recommender systems, which are sensitive to discrimination that exists in historical data. Biased data can lead collaborative-filtering methods to make unfair predictions for users from minority groups. We identify the insufficiency of existing fairness metrics and propose f…
Fairness in machine learning has predominantly been studied in static classification settings without concern for how decisions change the underlying population over time. Conventional wisdom suggests that fairness criteria promote the long-term well-being of those groups they aim to protect. We study how static fairne…
A new fairness metric for decision-making algorithms, conditioning on known fair variables.
problem Fairness issues in decision-making systems.
method Conditional fairness metric, Derivable Conditional Fairness Regularizer (DCFR), adversarial representation.
result Traditional fairness notations are special cases of the new conditional fairness notation.
Fair MP-Boost improves fairness and interpretability in boosting methods.
problem Improving fairness and interpretability in boosting methods.
method Fair MP-Boost uses adaptive sampling of minipatches to balance accuracy and fairness.
result Fair MP-Boost enhances fairness and accuracy while providing interpretable feature importance.
FairVIC improves fairness in neural networks without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Mitigating bias in automated decision-making systems, particularly in deep learning models.
method Integrates variance, invariance, and covariance terms into the loss function during training to abstract fairness concepts.
result Significant improvements in fairness across all tested metrics without compromising accuracy.
We consider the problem of improving fairness when one lacks access to a dataset labeled with protected groups, making it difficult to take advantage of strategies that can improve fairness but require protected group labels, either at training or runtime. To address this, we investigate improving fairness metrics for …
In recent years, machine learning techniques have been increasingly applied in sensitive decision making processes, raising fairness concerns. Past research has shown that machine learning may reproduce and even exacerbate human bias due to biased training data or flawed model assumptions, and thus may lead to discrimi…
Fair-MAML learns fair models from few examples.
problem Lack of data or bias in fairness-relevant tasks.
method Adapted MAML algorithm with fairness regularization.
result Trains fair models from few examples.
New study shows how adversaries can bias fair machine learning models even with corrupted data.
problem Fairness concerns in machine learning models under data corruption.
method Study of fairness-aware learning algorithms under worst-case data manipulations.
result Natural learning algorithms optimizing for both accuracy and fairness are order-optimal in terms of corruption ratio and protected groups frequencies.
Paper introduces fair GLMs with convex penalty for equalizing GLM outcomes.
problem Achieving fairness in GLMs for practical use.
method Two fairness criteria based on GLM outcomes/log-likelihoods, achieved via a convex penalty on linear components.
result The fair GLM estimator is efficient and can handle various response variables.
The paper develops fair machine learning models using causal path-specific effects.
problem Fairness in machine learning models under causal constraints.
method Lagrange multiplier approach for infinite-dimensional functional estimation, closed-form solutions for constrained optimization.
result Theoretical and flexible semiparametric estimation strategies for fair predictions.
Unfair pricing policies have been shown to be one of the most negative perceptions customers can have concerning pricing, and may result in long-term losses for a company. Despite the fact that dynamic pricing models help companies maximize revenue, fairness and equality should be taken into account in order to avoid u…
Revises individual fairness by finding a fair metric for a model.
problem Difficulties in specifying a suitable fairness metric a priori.
method Introduces minimal metrics and applies randomized smoothing from adversarial robustness.
result Adapting minimal metrics to complex models yields interpretable fairness guarantees.
New algorithm improves group fairness in social classification problems by exploiting performativity.
problem Inequities in social classification problems due to performativity.
method Develops algorithmic fairness practices that leverage performativity to achieve stronger group fairness guarantees.
result Achieves stronger group fairness guarantees compared to non-performative settings.
A new method learns fair classifiers without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Designing fair classifiers that do not discriminate based on sensitive attributes.
method A model-agnostic multi-objective architecture using a differentiable relaxation of fairness notions.
result Our method achieves lower loss of accuracy compared to current debiasing algorithms.
The paper tackles fair sharing of exploration costs across groups in online learning.
problem Sharing the cost of exploration fairly across multiple groups in online learning.
method The paper introduces the 'grouped' bandit model and uses axiomatic bargaining theory, specifically the Nash bargaining solution, to formalize fairness.
result The paper derives policies that are optimally fair and regret-optimal, showing that regret-optimal policies can be unfair.
Study develops a new method for creating fair models.
problem Ensuring equal outcomes for different protected groups.
method Introduces a new group-fair constraint based on transport maps.
result Develops a novel algorithm FTM for training group-fair models.
The paper characterizes a fundamental tradeoff between fairness and accuracy in classification problems.
problem Characterizing the inherent tradeoff between fairness and accuracy in classification problems.
method Provided a lower bound on the sum of group-wise errors of any fair classifiers, and constructed an algorithm to achieve optimal accuracy and fairness.
result Lower bounds on the sum of group-wise errors of fair classifiers, showing an inherent tradeoff between fairness and accuracy.
Proposes q-Fair Federated Learning to improve fairness in training models across devices.
problem Naive aggregation in federated learning can lead to unfair accuracy distribution.
method Introduces q-Fair Federated Learning (q-FFL) and q-FedAvg method for efficient optimization.
result q-FFL and q-FedAvg improve fairness, flexibility, and efficiency in federated learning.
New social and economic activities massively exploit big data and machine learning algorithms to do inference on people's lives. Applications include automatic curricula evaluation, wage determination, and risk assessment for credits and loans. Recently, many governments and institutions have raised concerns about the …
New fairness notion helps identify fair auditors for evaluating decision-support systems.
problem Identifying fair auditors to evaluate decision-support systems for bias.
method Introducing a non-comparative fairness notion based on desired system properties.
result The proposed fairness notion provides guarantees in terms of comparative fairness.
New fairness measures account for prediction uncertainties to detect bias.
problem Fairness of ML models is not well-defined and measures are limited.
method Introduce new fairness measures based on aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties.
result Uncertainty-based measures reveal bias not captured by existing measures.
The paper highlights legal misunderstandings in ML fairness definitions.
problem Misalignment between ML fairness definitions and legal concepts.
method Examples and comparative analysis of legal and ML terminology.
result Both communities need to learn from these tensions.
This work addresses local fairness in machine learning models.
problem Ensuring fairness within subregions of feature space, not just global averages.
method Introduces ROAD, a Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) approach with adversarial learning.
result Achieves Pareto dominance in local fairness and accuracy across datasets.
The paper develops methods to create fair and transferable representations without subgroup discrimination.
problem Creating fair and transferable representations without discriminating subgroups in the population.
method The approach involves modifying data representations to meet fairness constraints, leveraging task similarities via low rank matrix factorization.
result The learned fair representation transfers well to novel tasks, improving prediction performance and fairness metrics.
Bayesian framework uses unlabeled data to improve fairness assessment.
problem Reliable fairness assessment with limited labeled data.
method Hierarchical latent variable model with Bayesian inference.
result Significant reduction in estimation error for fairness metrics.
A method for learning fair representations for kernel models.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models.
method Using Sufficient Dimension Reduction (SDR) in the context of kernel-based models to construct fair representations in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS).
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of model-aware fair representations for kernel models, including support for multiple fairness criteria and continuous/discrete data.
The paper examines fair pricing and hedging stability under small numéraire perturbations.
problem Fair pricing and hedging stability under numéraire perturbations.
method Reformulating the stochastic control problem to show stability and deriving asymptotic formulas.
result Fair price and hedging strategy are stable with small numéraire perturbations.
New approach to fairness in machine learning through stochastic optimization.
problem Fairness issues in machine learning predictions.
method Stochastic multi-objective optimization for accuracy-fairness trade-offs.
result Well-spread and accurate Pareto fronts for handling streaming data.
New approach for fair predictions under changing data distributions.
problem Fairness in classification algorithms under covariate shift.
method Proposes a robust predictor that satisfies fairness and maintains statistical properties of source data.
result Demonstrates improved fairness and target performance on benchmark tasks.
Proposes Fair Archetypal Analysis to reduce fairness concerns in data representation.
problem Inadvertent encoding of sensitive attributes in Archetypal Analysis.
method Integrates fairness regularization into Archetypal Analysis and its nonlinear extension.
result Reduces group separability without significantly compromising explained variance.
This paper benchmarks algorithms for training fair DNNs, addressing real-world fairness constraints.
problem Training deep neural networks with fairness constraints.
method Benchmarking stochastic approximation algorithms for fairness-constrained DNN training.
result Demonstrates the use of a new benchmark for comparing fairness-improving algorithms.