To pool or not to pool: Analyzing the regularizing effects of group-fair training on shared models

C Cousins, IE Kumar… - International …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In fair machine learning, one source of performance disparities between groups is overfitting
to groups with relatively few training samples. We derive group-specific bounds on the …

A social welfare–based infrastructure resilience assessment framework: Toward equitable resilience for infrastructure development

S Dhakal, L Zhang - Natural Hazards Review, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Resilient infrastructure, which better withstands, adapts, and recovers from disasters, can
limit disaster impacts, such as disruptions to infrastructure services and time and efforts …

Algorithms and analysis for optimizing robust objectives in fair machine learning

C Cousins - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.06703, 2024 - arxiv.org
The original position or veil of ignorance argument of John Rawls, perhaps the most famous
argument for egalitarianism, states that our concept of fairness, justice, or welfare should be …

[HTML][HTML] The Nash bargaining solution and utilitarian–egalitarian social welfare functions

S Rachmilevitch - Economics Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
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Integrating Social Equity and Vulnerability with Infrastructure Resilience Assessment

S Dhakal, L Zhang - Construction Research Congress 2022, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Resilient infrastructure, which better withstands, adapts, and recovers from disasters, plays
an important role in mitigating the impacts of natural hazards to the communities. However …

[PDF][PDF] Endogenous Social Minimum

Y Shi - 2024 - econometricsociety.org
This paper characterizes a class of individual preferences in which heterogeneous social
members care not only about their own consumption, but also about the minimum …

Pool testing with dilution effects and heterogeneous priors

GQ Saraiva - Health Care Management Science, 2023 - Springer
The Dorfman pooled testing scheme is a process in which individual specimens (eg, blood,
urine, swabs, etc.) are pooled and tested together; if the merged sample tests positive for …

A Resilience Assessment Framework of Infrastructure Systems by Integrating Social Equity to Support Disaster Resilience Decision Making

S Dhakal - 2022 - digitalcommons.fiu.edu
Resilient infrastructure, which better withstands, adapts, and quickly recovers from disasters,
can limit disaster impacts, such as disruptions to infrastructure services and time and efforts …