Temporal Fairness in Decision Making Problems

2024/08/23 by Torres, Manuel R., Zehtabi, Parisa, Cashmore, Michael +2
#Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.13208

Abstract

In this work we consider a new interpretation of fairness in decision making problems. Building upon existing fairness formulations, we focus on how to reason over fairness from a temporal perspective, taking into account the fairness of a history of past decisions. After introducing the concept of temporal fairness, we propose three approaches that incorporate temporal fairness in decision making problems formulated as optimization problems. We present a qualitative evaluation of our approach in four different domains and compare the solutions against a baseline approach that does not consider the temporal aspect of fairness.

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