arXiv:2004. 10846v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Problem definition: Traditionally, New York City's top 8 public schools have selected candidates solely based on their scores in the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT).
arXiv:2609.23836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamentally challenging question in K-12 education is about the effects of taking more advanced or challenging classes. It is particularly complex...
arXiv:2609.24556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) minimises aggregate reconstruction error, which can inadvertently represent majority subgroups with substantially...
arXiv:2606. 20461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models have been shown to exhibit discriminatory outcomes or degraded performance for individuals at the intersection of multiple sensitive attributes, such as race and gender.
arXiv:2603. 04689v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fair top-$k$ selection, which ensures appropriate proportional representation of members from minority or historically disadvantaged groups among the top-$k$ selected candidates, has drawn significant attention.
arXiv:2609.38552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Public institutions increasingly procure AI systems whose design they cannot inspect or change. In higher education, proprietary Early Warning System...
The paper argues that traditional probabilistic fairness metrics can miss significant disparities in the actual consequences of decisions. By introducing a utility-based framework, the authors show that a process can satisfy ε-fairness yet still be maximally unfair when utilities are considered. They apply this framework to college admissions and credit‑risk assessment, demonstrating that equalizing probabilities alone may mask unequal utility outcomes across groups.
arXiv:2608.02551v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fairness evaluation concerns not only what a model produces, but also what its outputs ought to be compared against. When a model generates "...
arXiv:2508. 08337v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic fairness research has largely framed unfairness as discrimination along sensitive attributes.
arXiv:2606. 30932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two-sided marketplaces connect distinct user groups whose interests often conflict -- improving outcomes on one side could degrade the other side's experience.
The paper introduces FAPE, a four‑stage framework for evaluating the post‑processing fairness intervention ThresholdOptimizer across eight diverse domains, including criminal justice, finance, healthcare, and education. It reports that the intervention reduces disparity in most high‑disparity cases but can worsen fairness when baseline disparities are low, and that a single deployment‑time audit is unreliable without continuous monitoring and baseline‑disparity screening.
arXiv:2609.35898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes Wasserstein Causal Forests (WCF) for settings in which each unit's outcome is itself a probability distribution. This study also...
arXiv:2606. 17810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we establish a set of theoretical impossibility results, termed the No-Free-Fairness theorems, that identify three fundamental sources of disparity in learning systems.