Fair algorithms for clustering

S Bera, D Chakrabarty, N Flores… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of finding low-cost {\em fair clusterings} in data where each data point
may belong to many protected groups. Our work significantly generalizes the seminal work …

Fair clustering through fairlets

F Chierichetti, R Kumar, S Lattanzi… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the question of fair clustering under the {\em disparate impact} doctrine, where
each protected class must have approximately equal representation in every cluster. We …

On the cost of essentially fair clusterings

IO Bercea, M Groß, S Khuller, A Kumar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Clustering is a fundamental tool in data mining. It partitions points into groups (clusters) and
may be used to make decisions for each point based on its group. However, this process …

Coresets for clustering with fairness constraints

L Huang, S Jiang, N Vishnoi - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In a recent work,\cite {chierichetti2017fair} studied the following``fair''variants of classical
clustering problems such as k-means and k-median: given a set of n data points in R^ d and …

Better Algorithms for Individually Fair -Clustering

M Negahbani, D Chakrabarty - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study data clustering problems with $\ell_p $-norm objectives (eg\textsc {$ k $-Median}
and\textsc {$ k $-Means}) in the context of individual fairness. The dataset consists of $ n …

Fair clustering via equitable group representations

M Abbasi, A Bhaskara… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
What does it mean for a clustering to be fair? One popular approach seeks to ensure that
each cluster contains groups in (roughly) the same proportion in which they exist in the …

A pairwise fair and community-preserving approach to k-center clustering

B Brubach, D Chakrabarti, J Dickerson… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Clustering is a foundational problem in machine learning with numerous applications. As
machine learning increases in ubiquity as a backend for automated systems, concerns …

Proportionally fair clustering

X Chen, B Fain, L Lyu… - … conference on machine …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We extend the fair machine learning literature by considering the problem of proportional
centroid clustering in a metric context. For clustering n points with k centers, we define …

Proportionally fair clustering revisited

E Micha, N Shah - 47th International Colloquium on Automata …, 2020 - drops.dagstuhl.de
In this work, we study fairness in centroid clustering. In this problem, k cluster centers must
be placed given n points in a metric space, and the cost to each point is its distance to the …

Socially fair k-means clustering

M Ghadiri, S Samadi, S Vempala - … of the 2021 ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We show that the popular k-means clustering algorithm (Lloyd's heuristic), used for a variety
of scientific data, can result in outcomes that are unfavorable to subgroups of data (eg …