Matching Code and Law: Achieving Algorithmic Fairness with Optimal Transport

no code implementations • 21 Dec 2017 • Meike Zehlike, Philipp Hacker, Emil Wiedemann

As a consequence, the algorithm enables the decision maker to adopt intermediate ``worldviews'' on the degree of discrimination encoded in algorithmic processes, adding nuance to the extreme cases of ``we're all equal'' (WAE) and ``what you see is what you get'' (WYSIWYG) proposed so far in the literature.

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