Auditing ML Models for Individual Bias and Unfairness
Abstract
We consider the task of auditing ML models for individual bias/unfairness. We formalize the task in an optimization problem and develop a suite of inferential tools for the optimal value. Our tools permit us to obtain asymptotic confidence intervals and hypothesis tests that cover the target/control the Type I error rate exactly. To demonstrate the utility of our tools, we use them to reveal the gender and racial biases in Northpointe’s COMPAS recidivism prediction instrument.
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Xue et al. "Auditing ML Models for Individual Bias and Unfairness." Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020.Markdown
[Xue et al. "Auditing ML Models for Individual Bias and Unfairness." Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020.](https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2020/xue2020aistats-auditing/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{xue2020aistats-auditing,
title = {{Auditing ML Models for Individual Bias and Unfairness}},
author = {Xue, Songkai and Yurochkin, Mikhail and Sun, Yuekai},
booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
year = {2020},
pages = {4552-4562},
volume = {108},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2020/xue2020aistats-auditing/}
}