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Non-Discriminatory Machine Learning through Convex Fairness Criteria

Goel, Naman, Yaghini, Mohammad, Faltings, Boi·2018·Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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We introduce a novel technique to achieve non-discrimination in machine learning without sacrificing convexity and probabilistic interpretation. We also propose a new notion of fairness for machine learning called the weighted proportional fairness and show that our technique satisfies this subjective fairness criterion.

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  • When extending the classifier's (convex) loss function with fairness terms, researchers typically seek to balance fairness and accuracy.

    “When extending the classiier's (convex) loss function with fairness terms, researchers typically seek to balance fairness and accuracy (e.g.[5,26,36,52,57,98,119,141,153,168,208,314]).”

    From Fairness in machine learning: A survey (2024) · cites this paper as [119]

  • Regularization approaches are often non-convex in nature or achieve convexity at the cost of probabilistic interpretation.

    “Key challenges for regularization approaches are: 1) they are often non-convex in nature or achieve convexity at the cost of probabilistic interpretation [119];”

    From Fairness in machine learning: A survey (2024) · cites this paper as [119]

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Authors
Goel, N., Yaghini, M., & Faltings, B.
Affiliations
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Publisher
ACM
Published
2018-12-27
Pages
116-116
ISSN
3065-8365 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2788284633
Cited by
79
References
18
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 1
FWCI
18.58
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › 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
algorithmic fairness, non-discrimination, convex optimization, probabilistic interpretation, fairness criteria

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