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A Causal Bayesian Networks Viewpoint on Fairness

Silvia Chiappa
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William S. Isaac
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Abstract

We offer a graphical interpretation of unfairness in a dataset as the presence of an unfair causal effect of the sensitive attribute in the causal Bayesian network representing the data-generation mechanism. We use this viewpoint to revisit the recent debate surrounding the COMPAS pretrial risk assessment tool and, more generally, to point out that fairness evaluation on a model requires careful considerations on the patterns of unfairness underlying the training data. We show that causal Bayesian networks provide us with a powerful tool to measure unfairness in a dataset and to design fair models in complex unfairness scenarios.
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hal-02271668 , version 1 (27-08-2019)

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Silvia Chiappa, William S. Isaac. A Causal Bayesian Networks Viewpoint on Fairness. Eleni Kosta; Jo Pierson; Daniel Slamanig; Simone Fischer-Hübner; Stephan Krenn. Privacy and Identity Management. Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in the Age of Big Data : 13th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, Vienna, Austria, August 20-24, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, AICT-547, Springer International Publishing, pp.3-20, 2019, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 978-3-030-16743-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-16744-8_1⟩. ⟨hal-02271668⟩
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