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Calibration for the (Computationally-Identifiable) Masses

Úrsula Hébert-Johnson,Michael P. Kim,Omer Reingold,G. Rothblum

Published 2017 in arXiv.org

ABSTRACT

As algorithms increasingly inform and influence decisions made about individuals, it becomes increasingly important to address concerns that these algorithms might be discriminatory. The output of an algorithm can be discriminatory for many reasons, most notably: (1) the data used to train the algorithm might be biased (in various ways) to favor certain populations over others; (2) the analysis of this training data might inadvertently or maliciously introduce biases that are not borne out in the data. This work focuses on the latter concern. We develop and study multicalbration -- a new measure of algorithmic fairness that aims to mitigate concerns about discrimination that is introduced in the process of learning a predictor from data. Multicalibration guarantees accurate (calibrated) predictions for every subpopulation that can be identified within a specified class of computations. We think of the class as being quite rich; in particular, it can contain many overlapping subgroups of a protected group. We show that in many settings this strong notion of protection from discrimination is both attainable and aligned with the goal of obtaining accurate predictions. Along the way, we present new algorithms for learning a multicalibrated predictor, study the computational complexity of this task, and draw new connections to computational learning models such as agnostic learning.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Venue

    arXiv.org

  • Publication date

    2017-11-22

  • Fields of study

    Mathematics, Computer Science

  • Identifiers
    arXiv 1711.08513
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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