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cs.LG2024
Auditing Fairness under Unobserved Confounding
Yewon Byun, Dylan Sam, Michael Oberst +2
Many definitions of fairness or inequity involve unobservable causal quantities that cannot be directly estimated without strong assumptions. For instance, it is particularly diffi…
cs.IT2024
Computing Low-Entropy Couplings for Large-Support Distributions
Samuel Sokota, Dylan Sam, Christian Schroeder de Witt +3
Minimum-entropy coupling (MEC) -- the process of finding a joint distribution with minimum entropy for given marginals -- has applications in areas such as causality and steganogra…