Fairness Shields: Safeguarding against Biased Decision Makers
Authors: Filip Cano, Thomas A. Henzinger, Bettina Könighofer, Konstantin Kueffner, Kaushik Mallik
AAAI 2025 | Venue PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Experimental | Our empirical evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of these shields in ensuring fairness while maintaining cost efficiency across various scenarios. |
| Researcher Affiliation | Academia | 1Graz University of Technology 2Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) 3IMDEA Software Institute EMAIL, EMAIL, EMAIL, EMAIL |
| Pseudocode | No | The paper describes algorithms in prose and mathematical equations but does not include a distinct pseudocode block or algorithm figure. |
| Open Source Code | No | The paper refers to an extended version on arXiv (Cano et al. 2024b) but does not provide an explicit statement or link for the source code of their methodology. |
| Open Datasets | Yes | We performed our experiments on the datasets Adult (Becker et al. 1996), COMPAS (Kirchner et al. 2016), German Credit (Hofmann 1994), and Bank Marketing (Moro et al. 2012). |
| Dataset Splits | No | The paper mentions using well-known datasets but does not explicitly provide details about training/test/validation dataset splits, percentages, or specific splitting methodologies used for reproduction. |
| Hardware Specification | No | The paper does not provide specific hardware details (e.g., exact GPU/CPU models, processor types with speeds, memory amounts, or detailed computer specifications) used for running its experiments. |
| Software Dependencies | No | The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details, such as library or solver names with version numbers, needed to replicate the experiment. |
| Experiment Setup | Yes | We synthesized shields to ensure DP and Eq Opp with thresholds κ {0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2}. For all models and datasets, Fin Hzn shields were synthesized with T = 100 for DP and T = 75 for Eq Opp. We synthesized Static-Fair, Static-BW, and Dynamic shields with T = 50 for DP and Eq Opp, and simulated them for 10 periods. |