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An Intersectional Definition of Fairness
Abstract
We propose differential fairness, a multi-attribute definition of fairness in machine learning which is informed by intersectionality, a critical lens arising from the humanities literature, leveraging connections between differential privacy and legal notions of fairness. We show that our criterion behaves sensibly for any subset of the set of protected attributes, and we prove economic, privacy, and generalization guarantees. We provide a learning algorithm which respects our differential fairness criterion. Experiments on the COMPAS criminal recidivism dataset and census data demonstrate the utility of our methods.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Foulds, J. R., Islam, R., Keya, K. N., & Pan, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US)
- Venue
- 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2020-04
- Pages
- 1918-1921
- ISSN
- 1084-4627 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3032340379
- Cited by
- 233
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 85 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 11.12
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Keywords
- intersectionality, algorithmic fairness, differential privacy, protected characteristics, generalization guarantees, privacy guarantees, census data, learning algorithms
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