NeurIPS 2016poster5788 citations
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Moritz Hardt, Eric Price, ecprice, Nati Srebro
Abstract
We propose a criterion for discrimination against a specified sensitive attribute in supervised learning, where the goal is to predict some target based on available features. Assuming data about the predictor, target, and membership in the protected group are available, we show how to optimally adjust any learned predictor so as to remove discrimination according to our definition. Our framework also improves incentives by shifting the cost of poor classification from disadvantaged groups to the decision maker, who can respond by improving the classification accuracy.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{NIPS2016_9d268236,
author = {Hardt, Moritz and Price, Eric and Srebro, Nati},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
editor = {D. Lee and M. Sugiyama and U. Luxburg and I. Guyon and R. Garnett},
pages = {},
publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
title = {Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning},
url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2016/file/9d2682367c3935defcb1f9e247a97c0d-Paper.pdf},
volume = {29},
year = {2016}
}