4 papers
Productionized Fairness Measurement Under Privacy Constraints
Osonde A. Osoba, Yuzi He, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan +3
Fairness measurements in the form of disaggregated evaluations often rely on demographic signals that are legally constrained or culturally sensitive. Race and ethnicity signals ar…
Mixing on Columns of the Transvection Walk
Natesh Pillai, Aaron Smith
In Diaconis and Saloff-Coste (1996), the authors introduced the simple ``transvection" walk on : at each step, choose two distinct rows and add one to t…
Adaptive Divide and Conquer with Two Rounds of Communication
Niladri Kal, Botond Szabó, Rajarshi Guhaniyogi +2
We introduce a two-round adaptive communication strategy that enables rate-optimal estimation in the white noise model without requiring prior knowledge of the underlying smoothnes…
A note on simulation methods for the Dirichlet-Laplace prior
Luis Gruber, Gregor Kastner, Anirban Bhattacharya +3
Bhattacharya et al. (2015, Journal of the American Statistical Association 110(512): 1479-1490) introduce a novel prior, the Dirichlet-Laplace (DL) prior, and propose a Markov chai…