Causal Reasoning for Algorithmic Fairness

2018/05/15 by Loftus, Joshua R., Russell, Chris, Kusner, Matt J. +1 · 2 citations
#Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1805.05859

Abstract

In this work, we argue for the importance of causal reasoning in creating fair algorithms for decision making. We give a review of existing approaches to fairness, describe work in causality necessary for the understanding of causal approaches, argue why causality is necessary for any approach that wishes to be fair, and give a detailed analysis of the many recent approaches to causality-based fairness.

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