4 papers
Mutatis Mutandis: Revisiting the Comparator in Discrimination Testing
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Testing for individual discrimination involves deriving a profile, the comparator, similar to the one making the discrimination claim, the complainant, based on a protected attribu…
Toward A Causal Framework for Modeling Perception
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
Perception occurs when individuals interpret the same information differently. It is a known cognitive phenomenon with implications for bias in human decision-making. Perception, h…
Counterfactual Situation Testing: From Single to Multidimensional Discrimination
Jose M. Alvarez, Salvatore Ruggieri
We present counterfactual situation testing (CST), a causal data mining framework for detecting individual discrimination in a dataset of classifier decisions. CST answers the ques…
A Practical Approach to Causal Inference over Time
Martina Cinquini, Isacco Beretta, Salvatore Ruggieri +1
In this paper, we focus on estimating the causal effect of an intervention over time on a dynamical system. To that end, we formally define causal interventions and their effects o…