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Data Management for Causal Algorithmic Fairness

Databases 2019-10-02 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

Fairness is increasingly recognized as a critical component of machine learning systems. However, it is the underlying data on which these systems are trained that often reflects discrimination, suggesting a data management problem. In this paper, we first make a distinction between associational and causal definitions of fairness in the literature and argue that the concept of fairness requires causal reasoning. We then review existing works and identify future opportunities for applying data management techniques to causal algorithmic fairness.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07924,
  title  = {Data Management for Causal Algorithmic Fairness},
  author = {Babak Salimi and Bill Howe and Dan Suciu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07924},
  year   = {2019}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.08283