An example of prediction which complies with Demographic Parity and equalizes group-wise risks in the context of regression
Abstract
Let be a triplet following some joint distribution with feature vector , sensitive attribute , and target variable . The Bayes optimal prediction which does not produce Disparate Treatment is defined as . We provide a non-trivial example of a prediction which satisfies two common group-fairness notions: Demographic Parity \begin{align} (f(X) | S = 1) &\stackrel{d}{=} (f(X) | S = 2) \end{align} and Equal Group-Wise Risks \begin{align} \mathbb{E}[(f^*(X) - f(X))^2 | S = 1] = \mathbb{E}[(f^*(X) - f(X))^2 | S = 2]. \end{align} To the best of our knowledge this is the first explicit construction of a non-constant predictor satisfying the above. We discuss several implications of this result on better understanding of mathematical notions of algorithmic fairness.
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@article{arxiv.2011.07158,
title = {An example of prediction which complies with Demographic Parity and equalizes group-wise risks in the context of regression},
author = {Evgenii Chzhen and Nicolas Schreuder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07158},
year = {2020}
}
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Presented at the NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Causality and Interpretability