Corpus ID: 231749969

Emergent Unfairness: Normative Assumptions and Contradictions in Algorithmic Fairness-Accuracy Trade-Off Research

@article{Cooper2021EmergentUN,
  title={Emergent Unfairness: Normative Assumptions and Contradictions in Algorithmic Fairness-Accuracy Trade-Off Research},
  author={Andrew Cooper and Ellen Abrams},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2102.01203}
}

• Andrew Cooper, Ellen Abrams
• Published 2021
• Computer Science
• ArXiv

Across machine learning (ML) sub-disciplines, researchers make explicit mathematical assumptions in order to facilitate proof-writing. We note that, specifically in the area of fairness-accuracy trade-off optimization scholarship, similar attention is not paid to the normative assumptions that ground this approach. Such assumptions presume that 1) accuracy and fairness are in inherent opposition to one another, 2) strict notions of mathematical equality can adequately model fairness, 3) it is… Expand

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