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Counterfactually Fair Prediction Using Multiple Causal Models

Artificial Intelligence 2021-05-25 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the problem of making predictions using multiple structural casual models defined by different agents, under the constraint that the prediction satisfies the criterion of counterfactual fairness. Relying on the frameworks of causality, fairness and opinion pooling, we build upon and extend previous work focusing on the qualitative aggregation of causal Bayesian networks and causal models. In order to complement previous qualitative results, we devise a method based on Monte Carlo simulations. This method enables a decision-maker to aggregate the outputs of the causal models provided by different experts while guaranteeing the counterfactual fairness of the result. We demonstrate our approach on a simple, yet illustrative, toy case study.

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@article{arxiv.1810.00694,
  title  = {Counterfactually Fair Prediction Using Multiple Causal Models},
  author = {Fabio Massimo Zennaro and Magdalena Ivanovska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00694},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 pages, 5 figures, conference paper. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.09866

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