Fairness Auditing: Lower Bounds on Company Manipulation
arXiv:2608. 00568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness audits are increasingly mandated in high-stakes applications such as hiring, lending, and automated decision-making.
arXiv:2606. 30338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: External evaluations are becoming increasingly central to the governance of AI systems.
arXiv:2608. 00568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness audits are increasingly mandated in high-stakes applications such as hiring, lending, and automated decision-making.
arXiv:2610.01005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed, algorithmic unfairness has raised growing concerns and intensified demands for transparent fairnes...
arXiv:2608. 04365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audits have emerged as a critical instrument for algorithmic governance, providing a mechanism for external scrutiny and governance of machine learning models.
arXiv:2507. 20708v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid deployment of AI systems in high-stakes domains, including those classified as high-risk under the The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), has intensified the need for reliable compliance auditing.
arXiv:2609.40034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past decade, Machine Learning (ML) has been trained under dual objectives: minimizing prediction error via Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM)...
arXiv:2601.03087v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit systematic biases across demographic groups. Auditing is proposed as an accountability tool for black-box LLM...
arXiv:2608. 13840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audits of generative AI (GenAI) systems often summarize behavior as a reported rate: how often the audited system complies with policy.
arXiv:2609.33676v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents increasingly take consequential actions through interactions with users, policies, and external tools. Auditing these agents requires au...
arXiv:2605. 07674v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Regulatory audits of AI systems increasingly rely on differential privacy (DP) to protect training data and model internals.
arXiv:2608. 14668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS) solve complex tasks through specialized collaboration, but inter-agent dependencies can propagate hallucinated or malicious outputs into system-level failures.
arXiv:2601. 16398v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic audits are essential tools for examining systems for properties required by regulators or desired by operators.
The paper introduces DISCERN, a two-tier protocol for certifying that updates to production models do not increase risk. It first uses unlabeled data to detect benign updates based on disagreement rates, then selectively labels only disagreements through an anytime-valid confidence sequence. The method achieves finite-sample validity with label-complexity bounds of order ρ²/ε², demonstrating significant label savings and strong empirical performance across 14,000+ audit streams.