International Business Machines Corporation

University of Michigan

Alexander Vargo

Sohini Upadhyay

Mikhail Yurochkin

Yuekai Sun

Debarghya Mukherjee

Amanda Ruth Garcia Bower

Seyed Hamid Eftekhari

Fan Zhang

Obtain a first data set, a second data set, and a machine learning model. Construct a sensitive subspace of the first data set that defines a fair metric for distance among elements of the first data set. Fairly train the machine learning model on the first data set using a distributionally robust optimization approach based on the fair metric. Produce an individually fair set of labels by applying the fairly trained machine learning model to the second data set. Allocate a resource according to the individually fair set of labels.

Training individually fair machine learning algorithms via distributionally robust optimization

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Alexander Vargo