New approach detects racial segregation patterns in machine learning systems.
problem Challenges of fairness in machine learning systems due to racial identity.
method Unsupervised learning to detect patterns of segregation.
result Mitigates root cause of social disparities without reifying race.
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.
Study shows racial bias in health data, which can be reduced with simple techniques.
problem Racial bias in health indicators measured by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
method Used publicly available and nationally representative MEPS data to show bias in predictive models for care management.
result Racial bias can be significantly reduced using simple mitigation techniques.
The paper examines how machine learning tools in justice settings can unfairly affect different racial groups.
problem Machine learning tools in justice settings can unfairly affect different racial groups.
method Exploring different ideas of racial equity and their computational trade-offs.
result Computation alone is unlikely to solve the unfairness in machine learning tools for justice settings.
COMPAS recidivism predictions show racial bias against African Americans, study finds.
problem Racial bias in recidivism prediction algorithms.
method Causal analysis using FACT, a fairness measure grounded in causal inference.
result COMPAS shows racial bias against African American defendants, robust to unmeasured confounding.
Study shows how algorithmic prediction affects US housing market, reducing racial wealth disparities.
problem Impact of algorithmic prediction on housing market and racial wealth disparities.
method Natural experiment using digitization of housing records to study entry, allocation, and prices.
result Digitization leads to increased sale prices for minority-owned homes, reducing racial wealth disparities.
The study uses transfer learning to compare surgical outcomes across racial/ethnic subgroups.
problem Difficulty in comparing surgical outcomes due to racial/ethnic and geographic differences.
method Causal inference framework and transfer learning to incorporate data from multiple populations.
result Racial and ethnic differences in surgical outcomes are found, with non-Hispanic Black patients experiencing wide variability.
Study finds racial bias in pulse oximeter readings has minimal impact on ICU ventilation rates.
problem Racial disparities in pulse oximeter readings affect clinical decisions in ICU settings.
method Causal inference using path-specific effects and doubly robust estimator.
result Minimal impact of racial discrepancies on invasive ventilation rates, but more pronounced on ventilation duration.
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.
This paper assesses biases in contextualized word representations.
problem Analyzing biases in contextualized word representations.
method Proposes assessing bias at the contextual word level, capturing contextual effects of bias.
result Demonstrates evidence of bias in contextual word models, including racial bias and exacerbated effects for intersectional minorities.
Underrepresented scientists produce more novel work but it's undervalued.
problem Underrepresented groups in science face undervaluation of their innovations.
method Text analysis and machine learning of career data of over 1 million US doctoral recipients.
result Underrepresented groups produce more scientific novelty but their contributions are undervalued.
Develops a method to quantify racial bias in law enforcement systems.
problem Quantify racial bias in law enforcement systems considering criminality and multi-stage interactions.
method Multi-stage causal framework incorporating criminality.
result Identifies three canonical scenarios of racial bias in law enforcement.
Recidivism prediction scores are used across the USA to determine sentencing and supervision for hundreds of thousands of inmates. One such generator of recidivism prediction scores is Northpointe's Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) score, used in states like California and F…
Improved surname geocoding and name supplements enhance race imputation accuracy.
problem Census data problems affecting race imputation accuracy.
method Fully Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (fBISG) and name supplements.
result Significant improvement in race imputation accuracy across all racial groups.
Study predicts infant mortality using birth certificate data.
problem High infant mortality rate in the U.S. and racial/ethnic disparities.
method Classification models trained on birth certificate features.
result Methodology outperforms standard classification methods.
New model tackles real-world distribution mismatches in machine learning.
problem Real-world applications often have training and test distributions that differ.
method Developed a learning model based on information theory using importance sampling.
result The model performs better under large distribution deviations.
To answer questions about racial inequality and fairness, we often need a way to infer race and ethnicity from names. One way to infer race and ethnicity from names is by relying on the Census Bureau's list of popular last names. The list, however, suffers from at least three limitations: 1. it only contains last names…
Predictive modeling is increasingly being employed to assist human decision-makers. One purported advantage of replacing human judgment with computer models in high stakes settings-- such as sentencing, hiring, policing, college admissions, and parole decisions-- is the perceived "neutrality" of computers. It is argued…
Develops causal framework for fair survival analysis in healthcare.
problem Fairness in survival analysis for high-stakes domains like healthcare.
method Causal framework using graphical models, conditional survival function, and Causal Reduction Theorem.
result Decomposes disparities in survival into direct, indirect, and spurious pathways.
Develops tools to audit ML models for bias and unfairness.
problem Auditing ML models for individual bias and unfairness.
method Formalizes the task as an optimization problem and develops inferential tools for the optimal value.
result Demonstrates the utility of tools in revealing biases in COMPAS recidivism prediction instrument.
Develops fair machine learning models resistant to sensitive perturbations.
problem Ensuring model performance is invariant to sensitive attributes like gender and ethnicity.
method Distributionally robust optimization to enforce individual fairness.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on tasks prone to bias.
Method debiases alternative data for fair credit underwriting.
problem Bias in alternative data affecting credit underwriting fairness.
method Causal inference applied to machine learning models.
result Improves model accuracy across racial groups without discrimination.
The study tests and optimizes fairness in credit scoring models.
problem Discrimination in credit scoring models based on protected attributes.
method Formal testing and variable identification to optimize fairness and performance.
result Guidance on monitoring and improving algorithmic fairness in credit scoring.
Two simple methods learn fair metrics from data to improve fairness in ML tasks.
problem Lack of widely accepted fair metrics for many ML tasks hinders individual fairness adoption.
method Presented two simple ways to learn fair metrics from various data types.
result Fair training with learned metrics improves fairness on three ML tasks.
New method for analyzing compositional data, addressing biases in summary statistics.
problem Inadequate effect measures for compositional data, especially in high-dimensionality and sparsity.
method Perturbation-based effect measures, average perturbation effects.
result Proposed estimators efficiently estimate average perturbation effects, outperforming existing techniques.
The paper tackles individual fairness in ML models, developing statistical methods to detect bias.
problem Detecting and measuring violations of individual fairness in machine learning models.
method Formalizing the problem as adversarial attack, developing inference tools for the adversarial cost function.
result Statistical methods to assess and test hypotheses of model fairness with non-coverage error rate control.
This paper discovers new identities linking geodesic and orthogeodesic lengths on hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Understanding relationships between geodesic and orthogeodesic lengths on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Investigates a broad family of identities involving lengths of all closed geodesics and orthogeodesics.
result Introduces new identities that include lengths of all closed geodesics, contrasting with previous identities.
A machine learning model may exhibit discrimination when used to make decisions involving people. One potential cause for such outcomes is that the model uses a statistical proxy for a protected demographic attribute. In this paper we formulate a definition of proxy use for the setting of linear regression and present …
Establishes a correspondence between two mathematical identities.
problem None explicitly stated; focuses on identity correspondence.
method Establishes correspondence between Pestov and Weitzenböck identities.
result Established correspondence between Pestov and Weitzenböck identities.
SLUG method detects bias and out-of-distribution content in generative models.
problem Generative models can underrepresent certain groups and fail on out-of-distribution data.
method SLUG: A new uncertainty quantification method for VAEs combining Laplace approximations and stochastic trace estimators.
result SLUG's UQ score correlates with bias and out-of-distribution content.
Quandle homology was defined from rack homology as the quotient by a subcomplex corresponding to the idempotency, for invariance under the type I Reidemeister move. Similar subcomplexes have been considered for various identities of racks and moves on diagrams. We observe common aspects of these identities and subcompl…
Introduces privilege scores to measure and interpret protected attribute-related privilege in machine learning models.
problem Lack of explicit formulation of non-neutrality in fairness-aware machine learning methods.
method Privilege scores (PS) and privilege score contributions (PSCs) to measure and interpret protected attribute-related privilege.
result Demonstrates the broad applicability of PS and PSCs in gender and racial privilege in mortgage and college admissions applications.
The paper derives curvature identities for 5D and 6D Einstein manifolds.
problem Deriving curvature identities for specific dimensions of Einstein manifolds.
method Using Patterson's curvature identities and the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem, the paper provides explicit formulae for 5D and 6D Einstein manifolds.
result The curvature identities for 5D and 6D Einstein manifolds are confirmed to be consistent with previous work.
Global Pestov identity proved on frame bundle and related fibrations.
problem Global Pestov identity on frame bundles and fibrations.
method Global Pestov identity on frame bundles and fibrations.
result Global Pestov identity on frame bundles and fibrations.
RLINK uses deep reinforcement learning to improve user identity linkage across social networks.
problem Recognizing the same user across different social networks.
method Converts user identity linkage into a sequence decision problem and uses deep reinforcement learning to optimize the linkage strategy.
result Achieves better performance than state-of-the-art methods in experiments on various datasets.
Proves Bochner's identity on graphs using a new auxiliary graph.
problem Extending Bochner's identity to graph theory.
method Introduces a complete tangent graph to prove the identity.
result Validates Bochner's identity on graphs.
Doodles link to commutator identities in a 2-sphere.
problem Understanding commutator identities in free groups via doodles.
method Analyzing doodles with proper noose systems and establishing bijections.
result A bijection between doodles and commutator identities.
The paper studies harmonic identity maps on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Understanding harmonicity of identity maps on Riemannian manifolds.
method Constructing new examples and defining a symmetric tensor field.
result New examples of identity harmonic maps are constructed.
The importance of Einstein's geometrization philosophy, as an alternative to the least action principle, in constructing general relativity (GR), is illuminated. The role of differential identities in this philosophy is clarified. The use of Bianchi identity to write the field equations of GR is shown. Another similar …
We use computer algebra to demonstrate the existence of a multilinear polynomial identity of degree 8 satisfied by the bilinear operation in every Lie-Yamaguti algebra. This identity is a consequence of the defining identities for Lie-Yamaguti algebras, but is not a consequence of anticommutativity. We give an explicit…
The paper proves a Basmajian identity for non-Archimedean local fields.
problem Proving Basmajian's identity over non-Archimedean local fields.
method Projective Anosov representations and Berkovich hyperbolic geometry.
result A signed finite sum series identity for Basmajian's identity.
Discover new identities linking hypersurface mean curvatures.
problem Understanding mean curvatures of hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds.
method Developed three most general Minkowski or Hsiung-Minkowski identities.
result Classical Minkowski identity is natural to all Riemannian manifolds.
In our previous paper (Axiomatic Differential Geometry II-3) we have discussed the general Jacobi identity, from which the Jacobi identity of vector fields follows readily. In this paper we derive Jacobi-like identities of tangent-vector-valued forms from the general Jacobi identity.
Graded identities for hyperbolic surfaces with cusps and cone points.
problem Understanding dilogarithm identities on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Establishing graded versions of Bridgeman's dilogarithm identity.
result Applications to the study of orthogeodesics.
We give a curvature identity derived from the generalized Gauss-Bonnet formula for 4-dimensional compact oriented Riemannian manifolds. We prove that the curvature identity holds on any 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold which is not necessarily compact. We also provide some applications of the identity.
New energy identity found for biharmonic maps into spheres.
problem Establishing energy identity for biharmonic maps in supercritical dimensions.
method Adapting Lin-Rivière's strategy for sphere-valued maps.
result Energy identity for stationary biharmonic maps into spheres in supercritical dimensions n≥5. New identities link Frobenius elements to Jones-Wenzl projectors at roots of unity.
problem Understanding relationships between Frobenius elements and Jones-Wenzl projectors at roots of unity.
method Obtained skein identities relating Frobenius elements to Jones-Wenzl projectors in the Kauffman bracket skein module.
result Skein identities provide new proofs of the existence of the Chebyshev-Frobenius homomorphism.
New proof of Minkowski identities for hypersurfaces in curved spaces.
problem Proving Minkowski identities for hypersurfaces in constant curvature manifolds.
method Using a differential system and position vector field.
result New proof of Minkowski identities for hypersurfaces.