A burden shared is a burden halved: A fairness-adjusted approach to classification

B Rava, W Sun, GM James, X Tong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05720, 2021 - arxiv.org
We investigate fairness in classification, where automated decisions are made for
individuals from different protected groups. In high-consequence scenarios, decision errors …

Minimax Optimal Fair Classification with Bounded Demographic Disparity

X Zeng, G Cheng, E Dobriban - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18216, 2024 - arxiv.org
Mitigating the disparate impact of statistical machine learning methods is crucial for ensuring
fairness. While extensive research aims to reduce disparity, the effect of using a\emph {finite …

Beyond reasonable doubt: Improving fairness in budget-constrained decision making using confidence thresholds

MA Bakker, DP Tu, KP Gummadi, AS Pentland… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Prior work on fairness in machine learning has focused on settings where all the information
needed about each individual is readily available. However, in many applications, further …

Getfair: Generalized fairness tuning of classification models

S Sikdar, F Lemmerich, M Strohmaier - … of the 2022 ACM Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present GetFair, a novel framework for tuning fairness of classification models. The fair
classification problem deals with training models for a given classification task where data …

Unfairness despite awareness: group-fair classification with strategic agents

A Estornell, S Das, Y Liu, Y Vorobeychik - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02746, 2021 - arxiv.org
The use of algorithmic decision making systems in domains which impact the financial,
social, and political well-being of people has created a demand for these decision making …

Improved adversarial learning for fair classification

LE Celis, V Keswani - arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10443, 2019 - arxiv.org
Motivated by concerns that machine learning algorithms may introduce significant bias in
classification models, developing fair classifiers has become an important problem in …

Fair and optimal classification via post-processing

R Xian, L Yin, H Zhao - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
To mitigate the bias exhibited by machine learning models, fairness criteria can be
integrated into the training process to ensure fair treatment across all demographics, but it …

A new framework to assess the individual fairness of probabilistic classifiers

MFA Khan, H Karimi - 2022 21st IEEE International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fairness in machine learning has become a global concern due to the predominance of ML
in automated decision-making systems. In comparison to group fairness, individual fairness …

Addressing fairness in classification with a model-agnostic multi-objective algorithm

K Padh, D Antognini, E Lejal-Glaude… - Uncertainty in …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
The goal of fairness in classification is to learn a classifier that does not discriminate against
groups of individuals based on sensitive attributes, such as race and gender. One approach …

Learning fair and transferable representations with theoretical guarantees

L Oneto, M Donini, M Pontil… - 2020 IEEE 7th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing learning methods which do not discriminate subgroups in the population is the
central goal of algorithmic fairness. One way to reach this goal is by modifying the data …