Fair Multiple Decision Making Through Soft Interventions

Authors: Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, Lu Zhang, Xintao Wu

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experiments using both synthetic and real-world datasets show the effectiveness of our approach.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Yaowei Hu University of Arkansas yaoweihu@uark.edu Yongkai Wu Clemson University yongkaw@clemson.edu Lu Zhang University of Arkansas lz006@uark.edu Xintao Wu University of Arkansas xintaowu@uark.edu
Pseudocode No The paper does not contain structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code Yes Reproducibility. The source code and datasets are available at https://github.com/yaoweihu/Fair-Multiple-Decision-Making.
Open Datasets Yes For the real-world data, we use the Adult dataset [19] and build the causal graph by using the PC algorithm implemented in the Tetrad [25]. Reproducibility. The source code and datasets are available at https://github.com/yaoweihu/Fair-Multiple-Decision-Making.
Dataset Splits Yes The dataset is randomly split to training and testing datasets. obtained from 5-fold cross-validation.
Hardware Specification Yes All experiments are conducted in a PC with 8GB RAM and Intel Core i5-1035G1 CPU.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions software like CVXPY, PyTorch, and Adam optimizer, but does not provide specific version numbers for these software dependencies.
Experiment Setup Yes By default, we use 0.05 as the threshold for judging fairness. For the joint method, since the objective function and constraints are non-convex, we add constraints as penalty terms to the objective function and adopt Py Torch [22] to optimize it using the Adam optimizer.