Exploring Algorithmic Fairness in Robust Graph Covering Problems

Authors: Aida Rahmattalabi, Phebe Vayanos, Anthony Fulginiti, Eric Rice, Bryan Wilder, Amulya Yadav, Milind Tambe

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on several real-world social networks. Our method yields competitive node coverage while significantly improving group fairness relative to state-of-the-art methods.
Researcher Affiliation Academia University of Southern California University of Denver Harvard University Pennsylvania State University
Pseudocode No The paper does not include pseudocode or clearly labeled algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide a statement about releasing open-source code for the described methodology or a link to a code repository.
Open Datasets Yes We evaluate our approach on the five social networks from Table 1. Details on the data are provided in Section A. ... social networks from two homeless drop-in centers in Los Angeles, CA [4]. [4] Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Stephanie Begun, Eric Rice, Amanda Yoshioka-Maxwell, and Andrea Perez-Portillo. Sociometric network structure and its association with methamphetamine use norms among homeless youth. Social science research, 58:292 308, 2016.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not specify training, validation, and test dataset splits, nor does it refer to predefined splits with citations or cross-validation setups.
Hardware Specification No The paper mentions "All experiments were ran on a Linux 16GB RAM machine" but does not specify CPU/GPU models or other specific hardware components.
Software Dependencies Yes All experiments were ran on a Linux 16GB RAM machine with Gurobi v6.5.0.
Experiment Setup Yes We set a time limit of 2 hours since little improvement was seen beyond that. ... In all cases, and in particular for K = 2 and 3, symmetry breaking results in significant speed-ups. ... For K = 3 (and contrary to Bender s decomposition augmented with symmetry breaking), Bender s decomposition alone fails to solve the master problem to optimality within the time limit.