Optimized Pre-Processing for Discrimination Prevention

November 2, 2017 ยท View on GitHub

This repository provides code for our optimization-based pre-processing framework for reducing discrimination introduced in our NIPS17 paper.

Dependencies

  1. CVXPY
  2. Jupyter

Using the code

  1. Jupyter Notebook for pre-processing the Adult dataset can be found in the directory "Adult".
  2. Jupyter Notebook for pre-processing the Compas dataset can be found in the directory "Compas".

Please cite the corresponding paper when using the code.

References

  1. Optimized Pre-Processing for Discrimination Prevention
    Flavio Calmon, Dennis Wei, Bhanukiran Vinzamuri, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Kush R. Varshney.
    31st Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Long Beach, CA, December 2017.