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Algorithmic Monoculture and its Critics
Brian Hedden, Manish Raghavan
Algorithmic decision-making is replacing idiosyncratic human judgment in domains such as hiring, lending, and criminal justice. This shift promises increased consistency, but many…
Statistical Guarantees in the Search for Less Discriminatory Algorithms
Chris Hays, Ben Laufer, Solon Barocas +1
U.S. discrimination law can impose liability on firms that fail to adopt a less discriminatory alternative (LDA): a decision policy that achieves the same business objectives while…
Evaluating the Impacts of Swapping on the US Decennial Census
Maria Ballesteros, Cynthia Dwork, Gary King +2
To meet its dual burdens of providing useful statistics and ensuring privacy of individual respondents, the US Census Bureau has for decades introduced some form of "noise" into pu…
What Constitutes a Less Discriminatory Algorithm?
Benjamin Laufer, Manish Raghavan, Solon Barocas
Disparate impact doctrine offers an important legal apparatus for targeting discriminatory data-driven algorithmic decisions. A recent body of work has focused on conceptualizing o…
Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum
Cynthia Dwork, Kristjan Greenewald, Manish Raghavan
The US Decennial Census provides valuable data for both research and policy purposes. Census data are subject to a variety of disclosure avoidance techniques prior to release in or…