TY - GEN
T1 - Decision Making with Differential Privacy under a Fairness Lens
AU - Tran, Cuong
AU - Fioretto, Ferdinando
AU - Van Hentenryck, Pascal
AU - Yao, Zhiyan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Many agencies release datasets and statistics about groups of individuals that are used as input to a number of critical decision processes. To conform with privacy and confidentiality requirements, these agencies are often required to release privacy-preserving versions of the data. This paper studies the release of differentially private datasets and analyzes their impact on some critical resource allocation tasks under a fairness perspective. The paper shows that, when the decisions take as input differentially private data, the noise added to achieve privacy disproportionately impacts some groups over others. The paper analyzes the reasons for these disproportionate impacts and proposes guidelines to mitigate these effects. The proposed approaches are evaluated on critical decision problems that use differentially private census data.
AB - Many agencies release datasets and statistics about groups of individuals that are used as input to a number of critical decision processes. To conform with privacy and confidentiality requirements, these agencies are often required to release privacy-preserving versions of the data. This paper studies the release of differentially private datasets and analyzes their impact on some critical resource allocation tasks under a fairness perspective. The paper shows that, when the decisions take as input differentially private data, the noise added to achieve privacy disproportionately impacts some groups over others. The paper analyzes the reasons for these disproportionate impacts and proposes guidelines to mitigate these effects. The proposed approaches are evaluated on critical decision problems that use differentially private census data.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
SP - 560
EP - 566
BT - Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
A2 - Zhou, Zhi-Hua
PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
T2 - 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
Y2 - 19 August 2021 through 27 August 2021
ER -