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Measuring Recommender System Effects with Simulated Users
Sirui Yao, Yoni Halpern, Nithum Thain +6
Imagine a food recommender system -- how would we check if it is \emph{causing} and fostering unhealthy eating habits or merely reflecting users' interests? How much of a user's ex…
Fairness without Demographics through Adversarially Reweighted Learning
Preethi Lahoti, Alex Beutel, Jilin Chen +5
Much of the previous machine learning (ML) fairness literature assumes that protected features such as race and sex are present in the dataset, and relies upon them to mitigate fai…
Practical Compositional Fairness: Understanding Fairness in Multi-Component Recommender Systems
Xuezhi Wang, Nithum Thain, Anu Sinha +4
How can we build recommender systems to take into account fairness? Real-world recommender systems are often composed of multiple models, built by multiple teams. However, most res…
Debiasing Embeddings for Reduced Gender Bias in Text Classification
Flavien Prost, Nithum Thain, Tolga Bolukbasi
(Bolukbasi et al., 2016) demonstrated that pretrained word embeddings can inherit gender bias from the data they were trained on. We investigate how this bias affects downstream cl…
Nuanced Metrics for Measuring Unintended Bias with Real Data for Text Classification
Daniel Borkan, Lucas Dixon, Jeffrey Sorensen +2
Unintended bias in Machine Learning can manifest as systemic differences in performance for different demographic groups, potentially compounding existing challenges to fairness in…