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EquiPy: Sequential Fairness using Optimal Transport in Python

Our article EquiPy: Sequential Fairness using Optimal Transport in Python, with Agathe Fernandes Machado, Suzie Grondin, François Hu and Philipp Ratz is now online. See also equilibration.github.io/equipy/ for the Python package

Algorithmic fairness has received considerable attention due to the failures of various predictive AI systems that have been found to be unfairly biased against subgroups of the population. Many approaches have been proposed to mitigate such biases in predictive systems, however, they often struggle to provide accurate estimates and transparent correction mechanisms in the case where multiple sensitive variables, such as a combination of gender and race, are involved. This paper introduces a new open source Python package, EquiPy, which provides a easy-to-use and model agnostic toolbox for efficiently achieving fairness across multiple sensitive variables. It also offers comprehensive graphic utilities to enable the user to interpret the influence of each sensitive variable within a global context. EquiPy makes use of theoretical results that allow the complexity arising from the use of multiple variables to be broken down into easier-to-solve sub-problems. We demonstrate the ease of use for both mitigation and interpretation on publicly available data derived from the US Census and provide sample code for its use.

Talk in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Insurance Data Science Conference

This week, I will attend the Insurance Data Science conference in Sweeden. It has been a while… I was a keynote speaker at the one in London, ten years ago (to give a talk I still have feedbacks about – Getting into Bayesian Wizardry… (with the eyes of a muggle actuary) – by that time, the conference was “R in Insurance”), and then, we organized the one in Paris, back in 2017. Then we had the online events, but it was… different.

This time, I will get back to our recent paper A Sequentially Fair Mechanism for Multiple Sensitive Attributes, with François Hu and Philipp Ratz, and the equipy package, wrote with Agathe Fernandes-Machado and Suzie Grondin. The slides are available online.

WIM (Workshop in Insurance Mathematics) is back

After four year without it, the WIM is back. Last time, it was in February 2020. Tomorrow, Agathe and Olivier will present posters at the Workshop in Insurance Mathematics, a Concordia University.

Both posters will be on fairness and discrimination. Olivier Côté will present a poster on “Fairness in insurance enigma: exploring the maze of regulation

Agathe will present a poster on Equipy, “A Python Package for Sequential Fairness using Optimal Transport with Applications in Insurance