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Designing Fairly Fair Classifiers Via Economic Fairness Notions

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Safwan Hossain,

Andjela Mladenovic,

Nisarg ShahAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '20: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020

Pages 1559 - 1569

https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380228

Published: 20 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed a rapid growth of research on fairness in machine learning. In contrast, fairness has been formally studied for almost a century in microeconomics in the context of resource allocation, during which many general-purpose notions of fairness have been proposed. This paper explore the applicability of two such notions — envy-freeness and equitability — in machine learning. We propose novel relaxations of these fairness notions which apply to groups rather than individuals, and are compelling in a broad range of settings. Our approach provides a unifying framework by incorporating several recently proposed fairness definitions as special cases. We provide generalization bounds for our approach, and theoretically and experimentally evaluate the tradeoff between loss minimization and our fairness guarantees.

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1. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning
    1. Learning paradigms
      1. Supervised learning
        Supervised learning by classification
    2. Machine learning approaches
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2. Theory of computation

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