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Sources for Bias mitigation trade-offs

3 sources

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Obermeyer, Powers, Vogeli and Mullainathan Research paper

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations (original source, new tab)

2019 study of using healthcare spending as a proxy for need in a particular widely used algorithm.

Hardt, Price and Srebro Research paper

Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning (original source, new tab)

Formal group-fairness criteria, adjustments and limits of statistical tests.

Wan and colleagues; ACL Research paper

The Factuality Tax of Diversity-Intervened Text-to-Image Generation (original source, new tab)

Trade-offs in a historical-image benchmark and tested intervention; not evidence that all fairness improvements reduce usefulness.

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