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Justicia: A Stochastic SAT Approach to Formally Verify Fairness

@inproceedings{Ghosh2021JusticiaAS,
title={Justicia: A Stochastic SAT Approach to Formally Verify Fairness},
author={Bishwamittra Ghosh and D. Basu and Kuldeep S. Meel},
booktitle={AAAI},
year={2021}
}
• Published in AAAI 2021
• Computer Science
As a technology ML is oblivious to societal good or bad, and thus, the field of fair machine learning has stepped up to propose multiple mathematical definitions, algorithms, and systems to ensure different notions of fairness in ML applications. Given the multitude of propositions, it has become imperative to formally verify the fairness metrics satisfied by different algorithms on different datasets. In this paper, we propose a \textit{stochastic satisfiability} (SSAT) framework, Justicia… Expand
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