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20172022
most citedRunaway Feedback Loops in Predictive Policing

123 citations · 222 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.SI2022

Reducing Access Disparities in Networks using Edge Augmentation

Ashkan Bashardoust, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos E. Scheidegger +2

In social networks, a node's position is a form of \it{social capital}. Better-positioned members not only benefit from (faster) access to diverse information, but innately have mo…

cs.CY20221 cited

Measuring and mitigating voting access disparities: a study of race and polling locations in Florida and North Carolina

Mohsen Abbasi, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle A. Friedler +2

Voter suppression and associated racial disparities in access to voting are long-standing civil rights concerns in the United States. Barriers to voting have taken many forms over…

cs.AI2020

Problems with Shapley-value-based explanations as feature importance measures

I. Elizabeth Kumar, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Carlos Scheidegger +1

Game-theoretic formulations of feature importance have become popular as a way to "explain" machine learning models. These methods define a cooperative game between the features of…

cs.LG201946 cited

Energy Usage Reports: Environmental awareness as part of algorithmic accountability

Kadan Lottick, Silvia Susai, Sorelle A. Friedler +1

The carbon footprint of algorithms must be measured and transparently reported so computer scientists can take an honest and active role in environmental sustainability. In this pa…

cs.LG20191 cited

Fair Meta-Learning: Learning How to Learn Fairly

Dylan Slack, Sorelle Friedler, Emile Givental

Data sets for fairness relevant tasks can lack examples or be biased according to a specific label in a sensitive attribute. We demonstrate the usefulness of weight based meta-lear…

cs.LG2019

Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML: Learning Fairly with Minimal Data

Dylan Slack, Sorelle Friedler, Emile Givental

Motivated by concerns surrounding the fairness effects of sharing and transferring fair machine learning tools, we propose two algorithms: Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML. The firs…