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Many online marketplaces personalize prices based on consumer attributes. Since these prices are private, consumers may be unaware that they have spent more on a good than the lowest possible price, and cannot easily take action to pay…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Aditya Karan , Naina Balepur , Hari Sundaram

People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Preethi Lahoti , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

With the emerging application of Federated Learning (FL) in finance, hiring and healthcare, FL models are regulated to be fair, preventing disparities with respect to legally protected attributes such as race or gender. Two concepts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuying Duan , Gelei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Michael Lemmon

Linear Fisher market is one of the most fundamental economic models. The market is traditionally examined on the basis of individual's price-taking behavior. However, this assumption breaks in markets such as online advertising and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Juncheng Li , Pingzhong Tang

Price discrimination, which refers to the strategy of setting different prices for different customer groups, has been widely used in online retailing. Although it helps boost the collected revenue for online retailers, it might create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Xi Chen , Jiameng Lyu , Xuan Zhang , Yuan Zhou

For data pricing, data quality is a factor that must be considered. To keep the fairness of data market from the aspect of data quality, we proposed a fair data market that considers data quality while pricing. To ensure fairness, we first…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Dan Zhang , Hongzhi Wang , Xiaoou Ding , Yice Zhang , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

Fairness-aware recommender systems that have a provider-side fairness concern seek to ensure that protected group(s) of providers have a fair opportunity to promote their items or products. There is a ``cost of fairness'' borne by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Paresha Farastu , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

We study the efficiency of fair allocations using the well-studied price of fairness concept, which quantitatively measures the worst-case efficiency loss when imposing fairness constraints. Previous works provided partial results on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao , Yichen Tao

We investigate the efficiency of fair allocations of indivisible goods using the well-studied price of fairness concept. Previous work has focused on classical fairness notions such as envy-freeness, proportionality, and equitability.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Xiaohui Bei , Xinhang Lu , Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We introduce a flexible family of fairness regularizers for (linear and logistic) regression problems. These regularizers all enjoy convexity, permitting fast optimization, and they span the rang from notions of group fairness to strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Richard Berk , Hoda Heidari , Shahin Jabbari , Matthew Joseph , Michael Kearns , Jamie Morgenstern , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth

We introduce and study the problem of designing optimal contracts under fairness constraints on the task assignments and compensations. We adopt the notion of envy-free (EF) and its relaxations, $\epsilon$-EF and envy-free up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Matteo Castiglioni , Junjie Chen , Yingkai Li

The issue of fairness in AI arises from discriminatory practices in applications like job recommendations and risk assessments, emphasising the need for algorithms that do not discriminate based on group characteristics. This concern is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Fengjuan Jia , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Bakh Khoussainov

The definition and implementation of fairness in automated decisions has been extensively studied by the research community. Yet, there hides fallacious reasoning, misleading assertions, and questionable practices at the foundations of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Robert Lee Poe , Soumia Zohra El Mestari

A review of the main fairness definitions and fair learning methodologies proposed in the literature over the last years is presented from a mathematical point of view. Following our independence-based approach, we consider how to build…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-29 Eustasio del Barrio , Paula Gordaliza , Jean-Michel Loubes

We introduce a model of fair division with market values, where indivisible goods must be partitioned among agents with (additive) subjective valuations, and each good additionally has a market value. The market valuation can be viewed as a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Siddharth Barman , Soroush Ebadian , Mohamad Latifian , Nisarg Shah

We study a novel problem of fairness in ranking aimed at minimizing the amount of individual unfairness introduced when enforcing group-fairness constraints. Our proposal is rooted in the distributional maxmin fairness theory, which uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Bonchi

We study notions of fairness in decision-making systems when individuals have diverse preferences over the possible outcomes of the decisions. Our starting point is the seminal work of Dwork et al. which introduced a notion of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Michael P. Kim , Aleksandra Korolova , Guy N. Rothblum , Gal Yona

A combinatorial market consists of a set of indivisible items and a set of agents, where each agent has a valuation function that specifies for each subset of items its value for the given agent. From an optimization point of view, the goal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Kristóf Bérczi , Laura Codazzi , Julian Golak , Alexander Grigoriev

The prevalence and importance of algorithmic two-sided marketplaces has drawn attention to the issue of fairness in such settings. Algorithmic decisions are used in assigning students to schools, users to advertisers, and applicants to job…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Siddartha Devic , David Kempe , Vatsal Sharan , Aleksandra Korolova

Fairness and privacy are two important concerns in social decision-making processes such as resource allocation. We study privacy in the fair allocation of indivisible resources using the well-established framework of differential privacy.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong