Does mitigating ML's impact disparity require treatment disparity?
Lipton, Zachary, McAuley, Julian, Chouldechova, Alexandra
–Neural Information Processing Systems
Following precedent in employment discrimination law, two notions of disparity are widely-discussed in papers on fairness and ML. Algorithms exhibit treatment disparity if they formally treat members of protected subgroups differently; algorithms exhibit impact disparity when outcomes differ across subgroups (even unintentionally). Naturally, we can achieve impact parity through purposeful treatment disparity. One line of papers aims to reconcile the two parities proposing disparate learning processes (DLPs). Here, the sensitive feature is used during training but a group-blind classifier is produced.
Neural Information Processing Systems
Feb-14-2020, 20:12:03 GMT
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