Standardized Interpretable Fairness Measures for Continuous Risk Scores

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Main Authors: Becker, Ann-Kristin, Dumitrasc, Oana, Broelemann, Klaus
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author Becker, Ann-Kristin
Dumitrasc, Oana
Broelemann, Klaus
author_facet Becker, Ann-Kristin
Dumitrasc, Oana
Broelemann, Klaus
contents We propose a standardized version of fairness measures for continuous scores with a reasonable interpretation based on the Wasserstein distance. Our measures are easily computable and well suited for quantifying and interpreting the strength of group disparities as well as for comparing biases across different models, datasets, or time points. We derive a link between the different families of existing fairness measures for scores and show that the proposed standardized fairness measures outperform ROC-based fairness measures because they are more explicit and can quantify significant biases that ROC-based fairness measures miss.
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spellingShingle Standardized Interpretable Fairness Measures for Continuous Risk Scores
Becker, Ann-Kristin
Dumitrasc, Oana
Broelemann, Klaus
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
We propose a standardized version of fairness measures for continuous scores with a reasonable interpretation based on the Wasserstein distance. Our measures are easily computable and well suited for quantifying and interpreting the strength of group disparities as well as for comparing biases across different models, datasets, or time points. We derive a link between the different families of existing fairness measures for scores and show that the proposed standardized fairness measures outperform ROC-based fairness measures because they are more explicit and can quantify significant biases that ROC-based fairness measures miss.
title Standardized Interpretable Fairness Measures for Continuous Risk Scores
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11375