no code implementations • 11 Jul 2024 • Alex Oesterling, Usha Bhalla, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Himabindu Lakkaraju
In this write-up, we address this shortcoming by providing an accessible overview of existing literature related to operationalizing regulatory principles.
no code implementations • 29 Feb 2024 • Cyrus Cousins, I. Elizabeth Kumar, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
In fair machine learning, one source of performance disparities between groups is over-fitting to groups with relatively few training samples.
no code implementations • 30 May 2022 • Mohsen Abbasi, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle A. Friedler, Kristian Lum, Calvin Barrett
In this paper, we quantify access to polling locations, developing a methodology for the calibrated measurement of racial disparities in polling location "load" and distance to polling locations.
no code implementations • 14 Mar 2022 • Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey, A. Feder Cooper, Jessica Dai, John Dickerson, Keegan Hines, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
We study the problem of post-processing a supervised machine-learned regressor to maximize fair binary classification at all decision thresholds.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Indra Kumar, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle Friedler
Popular feature importance techniques compute additive approximations to nonlinear models by first defining a cooperative game describing the value of different subsets of the model's features, then calculating the resulting game's Shapley values to attribute credit additively between the features.
1 code implementation • 24 Apr 2021 • Pegah Nokhiz, Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana, Neal Patwari, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
When it comes to studying the impacts of decision making, the research has been largely focused on examining the fairness of the decisions, the long-term effects of the decision pipelines, and utility-based perspectives considering both the decision-maker and the individuals.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Nadya Bliss, Helen Nissenbaum, Melanie Moses
Innovations in AI have focused primarily on the questions of "what" and "how"-algorithms for finding patterns in web searches, for instance-without adequate attention to the possible harms (such as privacy, bias, or manipulation) and without adequate consideration of the societal context in which these systems operate.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2020 • Hannah C. Beilinson, Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh, Ashkan Bashardoust, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Social network position confers power and social capital.
Social and Information Networks
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2020 • Mohsen Abbasi, Aditya Bhaskara, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
A core principle in most clustering problems is that a cluster center should be representative of the cluster it represents, by being "close" to the points associated with it.
no code implementations • ICML 2020 • I. Elizabeth Kumar, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Carlos Scheidegger, Sorelle Friedler
Game-theoretic formulations of feature importance have become popular as a way to "explain" machine learning models.
no code implementations • 7 Sep 2019 • Vivek Gupta, Pegah Nokhiz, Chitradeep Dutta Roy, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
We measure recourse as the distance of an individual from the decision boundary of a classifier.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Charles T. Marx, Richard Lanas Phillips, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Specifically, we show that disentangled representations provide a mechanism to identify proxy features in the dataset, while allowing an explicit computation of feature influence on either individual outcomes or aggregate-level outcomes.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2019 • Mohsen Abbasi, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
While harms of allocation have been increasingly studied as part of the subfield of algorithmic fairness, harms of representation have received considerably less attention.
4 code implementations • 13 Feb 2018 • Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sonam Choudhary, Evan P. Hamilton, Derek Roth
Concretely, we present the results of an open benchmark we have developed that lets us compare a number of different algorithms under a variety of fairness measures, and a large number of existing datasets.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2017 • Amanda Bower, Sarah N. Kitchen, Laura Niss, Martin J. Strauss, Alexander Vargas, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
This work facilitates ensuring fairness of machine learning in the real world by decoupling fairness considerations in compound decisions.
1 code implementation • 29 Jun 2017 • Danielle Ensign, Sorelle A. Friedler, Scott Neville, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Predictive policing systems are increasingly used to determine how to allocate police across a city in order to best prevent crime.
2 code implementations • 23 Sep 2016 • Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
We show that in order to prove desirable properties of the entire decision-making process, different mechanisms for fairness require different assumptions about the nature of the mapping from construct space to decision space.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2016 • John Moeller, Sarathkrishna Swaminathan, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Multiple Kernel Learning, or MKL, extends (kernelized) SVM by attempting to learn not only a classifier/regressor but also the best kernel for the training task, usually from a combination of existing kernel functions.
2 code implementations • 23 Feb 2016 • Philip Adler, Casey Falk, Sorelle A. Friedler, Gabriel Rybeck, Carlos Scheidegger, Brandon Smith, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
It is therefore hard to acquire a deeper understanding of model behavior, and in particular how different features influence the model prediction.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2015 • Arnab Paul, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Over the shadow groups, the pre-training step, originally introduced as a mechanism to better initialize a network, becomes equivalent to a search for features with minimal orbits.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2014 • Arnab Paul, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Over the shadow groups, the pre-training step, originally introduced as a mechanism to better initialize a network, becomes equivalent to a search for features with minimal orbits.
2 code implementations • 11 Dec 2014 • Michael Feldman, Sorelle Friedler, John Moeller, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
It might not be possible to disclose the process.
no code implementations • 21 May 2013 • Parasaran Raman, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
It is also efficient: assigning an affinity score to a point depends only polynomially on the number of clusters and is independent of the number of points in the data.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2012 • John Moeller, Parasaran Raman, Avishek Saha, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
We present a geometric formulation of the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem.
1 code implementation • INFORMS 2006 • Tamraparni Dasu, Shankar Krishnan, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ke Yi
In this paper, we take a general, information-theoretic approach to the change detection problem, which works for multidimensional as well as categorical data.