Title
Non-Discriminatory Machine Learning Through Convex Fairness Criteria.
Abstract
Biased decision making by machine learning systems is increasingly recognized as an important issue. Recently, techniques have been proposed to learn non-discriminatory classifiers by enforcing constraints in the training phase. Such constraints are either non-convex in nature (posing computational difficulties) or don't have a clear probabilistic interpretation. Moreover, the techniques offer little understanding of the more subjective notion of fairness. In this paper, we introduce a novel technique to achieve nondiscrimination without sacrificing convexity and probabilistic interpretation. Our experimental analysis demonstrates the success of the method on popular real datasets including ProPublica's COMPAS dataset. We also propose a new notion of fairness for machine learning and show that our technique satisfies this subjective fairness criterion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3278721.3278722
THIRTY-SECOND AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / THIRTIETH INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONFERENCE / EIGHTH AAAI SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Machine Learning, Proportional Fairness, Non-Discrimination
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naman Goel1113.60
Mohammad Yaghini230.71
Boi Faltings33586331.33