4 papers
Differential Parity: Relative Fairness Between Two Sets of Decisions
Zhe Yu, Xiaoyin Xi, Pranam Prakash Shetty
With AI systems widely applied to assist humans in decision-making processes such as talent hiring, school admission, and loan approval; there is an increasing need to ensure that…
Story Point Estimation Using Large Language Models
Pranam Prakash Shetty, Adarsh Balakrishnan, Mengqiao Xu +2
This study investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) for story point estimation. Story points are unitless, project-specific effort estimates that help developers on the…
Comparative Separation: Evaluating Separation on Comparative Judgment Test Data
Xiaoyin Xi, Neeku Capak, Kate Stockwell +1
This research seeks to benefit the software engineering society by proposing comparative separation, a novel group fairness notion to evaluate the fairness of machine learning soft…
FairReweighing: Density Estimation-Based Reweighing Framework for Improving Separation in Fair Regression
Xiaoyin Xi, Zhe Yu
There has been a prevalence of applying AI software in both high-stakes public-sector and industrial contexts. However, the lack of transparency has raised concerns about whether t…