Causal fairness analysis

D Plecko, E Bareinboim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2207.11385, 2022 - arxiv.org
Decision-making systems based on AI and machine learning have been used throughout a
wide range of real-world scenarios, including healthcare, law enforcement, education, and …

Equal opportunity of coverage in fair regression

F Wang, L Cheng, R Guo, K Liu… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study fair machine learning (ML) under predictive uncertainty to enable reliable and
trustworthy decision-making. The seminal work of'equalized coverage'proposed an …

Conformalized fairness via quantile regression

M Liu, L Ding, D Yu, W Liu, L Kong… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Algorithmic fairness has received increased attention in socially sensitive domains. While
rich literature on mean fairness has been established, research on quantile fairness remains …

Reconciling predictive and statistical parity: A causal approach

D Plecko, E Bareinboim - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Since the rise of fair machine learning as a critical field of inquiry, many different notions on
how to quantify and measure discrimination have been proposed in the literature. Some of …

A fair price to pay: Exploiting causal graphs for fairness in insurance

O Côté, MP Côté, A Charpentier - Journal of Risk and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In many jurisdictions, insurance companies are prohibited from discriminating based on
certain policyholder characteristics. Exclusion of prohibited variables from models prevents …

Overcoming Fairness Trade-offs via Pre-processing: A Causal Perspective

C Leininger, S Rittel, L Bothmann - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.14710, 2025 - arxiv.org
Training machine learning models for fair decisions faces two key challenges: The\emph
{fairness-accuracy trade-off} results from enforcing fairness which weakens its predictive …

Fair Clustering: A Causal Perspective

F Bayer, D Plecko, N Beerenwinkel… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Clustering algorithms may unintentionally propagate or intensify existing disparities, leading
to unfair representations or biased decision-making. Current fair clustering methods rely on …

Sequential Conditional Transport on Probabilistic Graphs for Interpretable Counterfactual Fairness

AF Machado, A Charpentier, E Gallic - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.03425, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we link two existing approaches to derive counterfactuals: adaptations based
on a causal graph, as suggested in Ple\v {c} ko and Meinshausen (2020) and optimal …

Training large multimodal language models with ethical values

A Roger - 2024 - papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in modern society, exemplified by systems
like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, has given rise to significant ethical considerations. These …

Optimal Transport on Categorical Data for Counterfactuals using Compositional Data and Dirichlet Transport

AF Machado, A Charpentier, E Gallic - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.15549, 2025 - arxiv.org
Recently, optimal transport-based approaches have gained attention for deriving
counterfactuals, eg, to quantify algorithmic discrimination. However, in the general …