Summary of Fairjob: a Real-world Dataset For Fairness in Online Systems, by Mariia Vladimirova et al.
FairJob: A Real-World Dataset for Fairness in Online Systems
by Mariia Vladimirova, Federico Pavone, Eustache Diemert
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); 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 proposed research introduces a novel, fairness-aware dataset for job recommendations in advertising, aiming to bridge the gap in algorithmic fairness research within real-world scenarios. The dataset was designed and prepared to adhere to privacy standards and business confidentiality. A key challenge addressed is the lack of access to protected user attributes like gender, which is mitigated through a proposed proxy estimation method. Despite anonymization and use of a sensitive attribute proxy, the dataset preserves predictive power while serving as a realistic and challenging benchmark for evaluating fairness-aware job recommendation systems in online advertising platforms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new dataset has been created to help make sure job recommendations in ads are fair. This is important because having access or not to job opportunities can be life-changing. The dataset was made to follow privacy rules and keep business secrets safe. One tricky part was figuring out how to represent sensitive information like gender without actually knowing it, which the researchers propose a solution for. Even though the data is anonymous and includes a proxy for a sensitive attribute, it still works well and provides a realistic test for algorithms that try to make fair job recommendations in online ads. |
