Avoiding discrimination through causal reasoning

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 2017-December, Issue , 2017, Pages 657-667

  Kilbertus, Niki ^a,b   Rojas Carulla, Mateo ^a,b   Parascandolo, Giambattista ^a,c   Hardt, Moritz ^d   Janzing, Dominik ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CAUSAL REASONING; DISCRIMINATION CRITERIA; FAIRNESS CRITERIA; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; THROUGH THE LENS; TRADE OFF;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 85047020437     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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