A Geometric Theory of Robust Fairness Audits
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arXiv:2606. 26200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern machine learning systems have outgrown their origins as isolated predictive constructs, evolving into complex socio-technical architectures that actively mediate human opportunity.
arXiv:2604. 16610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning models often inherit biases from historical data, raising critical concerns about fairness and accountability.
arXiv:2602. 16794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) offers distribution-free uncertainty quantification for machine learning models, yet its interplay with fairness in downstream decision-making remains underexplored.
The paper introduces a new framework for evaluating spatial fairness in predictive models by considering individuals’ activity spaces rather than just a single residential location. It proposes associating users with multiple geographic partitions and applying a spatial scan statistic to detect unfairness across these activity-space patterns. Experiments on synthetic datasets demonstrate the method’s effectiveness in identifying unfair treatment and retrieving affected objects, while highlighting a trade‑off in localization performance across resolutions.
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: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.