4 papers
A Unifying Perspective on Probabilities as Model Predictions
Benedikt Höltgen
Although probabilistic statements are ubiquitous, foundational disagreements persist about their understanding, as exemplified by debates between Bayesians and frequentists; moreov…
Gender Artifacts from Art History to Text-to-Image Generation
Piera Riccio, Miriam Doh, Benedikt Höltgen +2
Artistic styles are rooted in specific socio-historical contexts that encode social hierarchies, including distinct constructions of gender. Yet in AI research, style has long been…
Reconsidering Fairness Through Unawareness From the Perspective of Model Multiplicity
Benedikt Höltgen, Nuria Oliver
Fairness through Unawareness (FtU) describes the idea that discrimination against demographic groups can be avoided by not considering group membership in the decisions or predicti…
The Costs of Pretending That There Are Data-Generating Probability Distributions in the Social World
Benedikt Höltgen, Robert C. Williamson
Machine Learning research, including work promoting fair or equitable algorithms, often relies on the concept of a data-generating probability distribution. The standard presumptio…