Summary of Lookahead Counterfactual Fairness, by Zhiqun Zuo and Tian Xie and Xuwei Tan and Xueru Zhang and Mohammad Mahdi Khalili
Lookahead Counterfactual Fairness
by Zhiqun Zuo, Tian Xie, Xuwei Tan, Xueru Zhang, Mohammad Mahdi Khalili
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new fairness notion, called lookahead counterfactual fairness (LCF), which addresses the limitations of traditional counterfactual fairness (CF) in machine learning (ML) applications that involve humans. LCF considers the downstream effects of ML predictions on individuals and requires the individual’s future status to be counterfactually fair. The authors theoretically identify conditions under which LCF can be satisfied and propose an algorithm based on these theorems. They also extend the concept to path-dependent fairness. Experimental results on both synthetic and real data validate the proposed method. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to make machine learning more fair. It’s not just about making sure predictions are fair, but also thinking about what happens next. If a person is treated unfairly because of an algorithm’s prediction, that’s still unfair even if the prediction was correct. The new idea, called lookahead counterfactual fairness (LCF), tries to fix this by looking at what would happen in the future and making sure it’s fair too. The authors came up with some rules for when LCF can work and a way to use those rules to make predictions more fairly. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
