An exploration of algorithmic discrimination in data and classification

no code implementations • 6 Nov 2018 • Jixue Liu, Jiuyong Li, Feiyue Ye, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le, Ping Xiong

The paper uses real world data sets to demonstrate the existence of discrimination and the independence between the discrimination of data sets and the discrimination of classification models.

Classification General Classification

FairMod - Making Predictive Models Discrimination Aware

no code implementations • 5 Nov 2018 • Jixue Liu, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le, Feiyue Ye, Gefei Li

It models the post-processing of predictions problem as a nonlinear optimization problem to find best adjustments to the predictions so that the discrimination constraints of all protected variables are all met at the same time.

General Classification