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20202024
most citedThe Fallacy of AI Functionality

242 citations · 406 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG2024

To Pool or Not To Pool: Analyzing the Regularizing Effects of Group-Fair Training on Shared Models

Cyrus Cousins, I. Elizabeth Kumar, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

In fair machine learning, one source of performance disparities between groups is over-fitting to groups with relatively few training samples. We derive group-specific bounds on th…

cs.LG2022★ 22 cited

Equalizing Credit Opportunity in Algorithms: Aligning Algorithmic Fairness Research with U.S. Fair Lending Regulation

I. Elizabeth Kumar, Keegan E. Hines, John P. Dickerson

Credit is an essential component of financial wellbeing in America, and unequal access to it is a large factor in the economic disparities between demographic groups that exist tod…

cs.LG2022★ 242 cited

The Fallacy of AI Functionality

Inioluwa Deborah Raji, I. Elizabeth Kumar, Aaron Horowitz +1

Deployed AI systems often do not work. They can be constructed haphazardly, deployed indiscriminately, and promoted deceptively. However, despite this reality, scholars, the press,…

cs.CY2021★ 32 cited

Epistemic values in feature importance methods: Lessons from feminist epistemology

Leif Hancox-Li, I. Elizabeth Kumar

As the public seeks greater accountability and transparency from machine learning algorithms, the research literature on methods to explain algorithms and their outputs has rapidly…

cs.AI2020★ 110 cited

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…