Algorithmic Fairness From The Lens Of Causality And Information Theory

Algorithmic Fairness From The Lens Of Causality And Information Theory

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Popular Definition: Statistical Parity

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Popular Definition: Statistical Parity

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Algorithmic Fairness From The Lens Of Causality And Information Theory

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Motivation: Machine Learning in High-Stakes Applications
  3. 3 How to identify/explain sources of disparity in machine learning models?
  4. 4 Outline
  5. 5 Popular Definition: Statistical Parity
  6. 6 Conditional Dependence can sometimes falsely detect bias (misleading dependencies) even when a model is "causally" fair Example: Causally fair model
  7. 7 One causal measure that satisfies all desirable properties Theorem: Our proposed measure of non-exempt disparity, given by
  8. 8 Some intuition on our proposed measure from causality
  9. 9 Non-negative decomposition of total "causal" disparity Theorem 2 (pictorially illustrated)
  10. 10 Simulation: Four types of disparities present
  11. 11 Numerical Computation of Fundamental Limits on the Tradeoff 1.4
  12. 12 Reliable Machine Learning
  13. 13 Partial Information Decomposition + Causality

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