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20202026
most citedBalancing Fairness and Efficiency in an Optimization Model

2 citations · 5 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.LG2026

End-to-End Fairness Optimization with Fair Decision-Focused Learning

Yu Wang, Violet Xinying Chen

Many real-world systems rely on predictive models to inform decisions, and fairness concerns arise in both the prediction and decision stages. We introduce end-to-end fairness opti…

cs.AI2024

Assessing Group Fairness with Social Welfare Optimization

Violet Chen, J. N. Hooker, Derek Leben

Statistical parity metrics have been widely studied and endorsed in the AI community as a means of achieving fairness, but they suffer from at least two weaknesses. They disregard…

stat.ML2024

Local Causal Discovery for Structural Evidence of Direct Discrimination

Jacqueline Maasch, Kyra Gan, Violet Chen +3

Identifying the causal pathways of unfairness is a critical objective for improving policy design and algorithmic decision-making. Prior work in causal fairness analysis often requ…

cs.AI2021★ 2 cited

Fairness through Social Welfare Optimization

Violet Xinying Chen, J. N. Hooker

We propose social welfare optimization as a general paradigm for formalizing fairness in AI systems. We argue that optimization models allow formulation of a wide range of fairness…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Online Convex Optimization Perspective for Learning from Dynamically Revealed Preferences

Violet Xinying Chen, Fatma Kılınç-Karzan

We study the problem of online learning (OL) from revealed preferences: a learner wishes to learn a non-strategic agent's private utility function through observing the agent's uti…

math.OC2020★ 2 cited

Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in an Optimization Model

Violet Xinying Chen, J. N. Hooker

Optimization models generally aim for efficiency by maximizing total benefit or minimizing cost. Yet a trade-off between fairness and efficiency is an important element of many pra…