Learning under selective labels in the presence of expert consistency

July 2018

Learning under selective labels in the presence of expert consistency

Authors:

Maria De Arteaga, Artur Dubrawski, and Alexandra Chouldechova

Abstract:

We explore the problem of learning under selective labels in the context of algorithm-assisted decision making. Selective labels is a pervasive selection bias problem that arises when historical decision making blinds us to the true outcome for certain instances. Examples of this are common in many applications, ranging from predicting recidivism using pre-trial release data to diagnosing patients. In this paper we discuss why selective labels often cannot be effectively tackled by standard methods for adjusting for sample selection bias, even if there are no unobservables. We propose a data augmentation approach that can be used to either leverage expert consistency to mitigate the partial blindness that results from selective labels, or to empirically validate whether learning under such framework may lead to unreliable models prone to systemic discrimination.
@workshop{De-2018-121802,
author = {Maria De Arteaga And Artur Dubrawski And Alexandra Chouldechova},
title = {Learning under selective labels in the presence of expert consistency},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICML '18 5th Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML '18)},
year = {2018},
month = {July},
}
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