%0 Generic %1 agarwal2018reductions %A Agarwal, Alekh %A Beygelzimer, Alina %A Dudík, Miroslav %A Langford, John %A Wallach, Hanna M. %D 2018 %K classification %T A Reductions Approach to Fair Classification. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02453 %X We present a systematic approach for achieving fairness in a binary classification setting. While we focus on two well-known quantitative definitions of fairness, our approach encompasses many other previously studied definitions as special cases. The key idea is to reduce fair classification to a sequence of cost-sensitive classification problems, whose solutions yield a randomized classifier with the lowest (empirical) error subject to the desired constraints. We introduce two reductions that work for any representation of the cost-sensitive classifier and compare favorably to prior baselines on a variety of data sets, while overcoming several of their disadvantages.

@misc{agarwal2018reductions, abstract = {We present a systematic approach for achieving fairness in a binary classification setting. While we focus on two well-known quantitative definitions of fairness, our approach encompasses many other previously studied definitions as special cases. The key idea is to reduce fair classification to a sequence of cost-sensitive classification problems, whose solutions yield a randomized classifier with the lowest (empirical) error subject to the desired constraints. We introduce two reductions that work for any representation of the cost-sensitive classifier and compare favorably to prior baselines on a variety of data sets, while overcoming several of their disadvantages.}, added-at = {2018-12-07T10:20:56.000+0100}, author = {Agarwal, Alekh and Beygelzimer, Alina and Dudík, Miroslav and Langford, John and Wallach, Hanna M.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23fbc485ef7aff66829fc068f88027c8e/jpvaldes}, description = {[1803.02453] A Reductions Approach to Fair Classification}, interhash = {b417a9296ee93e7076a5e5e8dcb288ab}, intrahash = {3fbc485ef7aff66829fc068f88027c8e}, keywords = {classification}, note = {cite arxiv:1803.02453}, timestamp = {2018-12-07T10:20:56.000+0100}, title = {A Reductions Approach to Fair Classification.}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02453}, year = 2018 }