Proportional fairness in clustering: A social choice perspective

L Kellerhals, J Peters - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.18162, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the proportional clustering problem of Chen et al.[ICML'19] and relate it to the area
of multiwinner voting in computational social choice. We show that any clustering satisfying …

The Impact of iBuying is About More Than Just Racial Disparities: Evidence from Mecklenburg County, NC

I Slaughter, EM Brown, N Weber - The 2024 ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Instant buyers (iBuyers)—companies that buy and sell homes based on automated valuation
models (AVMs)—now hold more than 5% market share in some USA cities. In this work, we …

Towards Fairer Centroids in K-means Clustering

S Simoes, P Deepak, M MacCarthaigh - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
There has been much recent interest in developing fair clustering algorithms that seek to do
justice to the representation of groups defined along sensitive attributes such as race and …

Fair Clustering: Critique, Caveats, and Future Directions

J Dickerson, SA Esmaeili, J Morgenstern… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Clustering is a fundamental problem in machine learning and operations research.
Therefore, given the fact that fairness considerations have become of paramount importance …