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公平领域指南:社会与形式科学的视角

The Fairness Field Guide: Perspectives from Social and Formal Sciences

University of Arkansas(阿肯色大学)

Alycia N. Carey, Xintao Wu

摘要:

在过去的几年里,已经提出了一系列不同的方法来衡量机器学习模型的公平性。然而,尽管越来越多的出版物和实现,仍然缺乏文献来解释公平的机器学习与哲学,社会学和法律等社会科学的相互作用。我们希望通过积累和阐述社会和形式科学(特别是机器学习和统计学)在本领域指南中产生的公平机器学习的思想和讨论来解决这个问题。具体来说,除了给出几种流行的基于统计和因果关系的公平机器学习方法的数学和算法背景外,我们还解释了支持它们的基本哲学和法律思想。此外,我们从社会学和哲学的角度探讨了对当前公平机器学习方法的一些批评。我们希望本领域指南能够帮助公平的机器学习从业者更好地理解他们的算法如何与重要的人文价值观(如公平)保持一致,以及我们作为一个领域如何设计方法和指标,以更好地为受压迫和边缘化的民众服务。

英文摘要:

Over the past several years, a slew of different methods to measure the fairness of a machine learning model have been proposed. However, despite the growing number of publications and implementations, there is still a critical lack of literature that explains the interplay of fair machine learning with the social sciences of philosophy, sociology, and law. We hope to remedy this issue by accumulating and expounding upon the thoughts and discussions of fair machine learning produced by both social and formal (specifically machine learning and statistics) sciences in this field guide. Specifically, in addition to giving the mathematical and algorithmic backgrounds of several popular statistical and causal-based fair machine learning methods, we explain the underlying philosophical and legal thoughts that support them. Further, we explore several criticisms of the current approaches to fair machine learning from sociological and philosophical viewpoints. It is our hope that this field guide will help fair machine learning practitioners better understand how their algorithms align with important humanistic values (such as fairness) and how we can, as a field, design methods and metrics to better serve oppressed and marginalized populaces.

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