3 papers
stat.ME2024
Quantifying the Uncertainty of Imputed Demographic Disparity Estimates: The Dual-Bootstrap
Benjamin Lu, Jia Wan, Derek Ouyang +2
Measuring average differences in an outcome across racial or ethnic groups is a crucial first step for equity assessments, but researchers often lack access to data on individuals'…
cs.LG2023
Estimating and Implementing Conventional Fairness Metrics With Probabilistic Protected Features
Hadi Elzayn, Emily Black, Patrick Vossler +3
The vast majority of techniques to train fair models require access to the protected attribute (e.g., race, gender), either at train time or in production. However, in many importa…
cs.LG2022
Entropy Regularization for Population Estimation
Ben Chugg, Peter Henderson, Jacob Goldin +1
Entropy regularization is known to improve exploration in sequential decision-making problems. We show that this same mechanism can also lead to nearly unbiased and lower-variance…