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Poster

Fairness Through Computationally-Bounded Awareness

Michael Kim · Omer Reingold · Guy Rothblum

Room 517 AB #135

Keywords: [ Metric Learning ] [ Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency ] [ Classification ] [ Learning Theory ]


Abstract:

We study the problem of fair classification within the versatile framework of Dwork et al. [ITCS '12], which assumes the existence of a metric that measures similarity between pairs of individuals. Unlike earlier work, we do not assume that the entire metric is known to the learning algorithm; instead, the learner can query this arbitrary metric a bounded number of times. We propose a new notion of fairness called metric multifairness and show how to achieve this notion in our setting. Metric multifairness is parameterized by a similarity metric d on pairs of individuals to classify and a rich collection C of (possibly overlapping) "comparison sets" over pairs of individuals. At a high level, metric multifairness guarantees that similar subpopulations are treated similarly, as long as these subpopulations are identified within the class C.

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