FairTargetSim: An Interactive Simulator for Understanding and Explaining the Fairness Effects of Target Variable Definition
<|reference_start|>FairTargetSim: An Interactive Simulator for Understanding and Explaining the Fairness Effects of Target Variable Definition: Machine learning requires defining one's target variable for predictions or decisions, a process that can have profound implications on fairness: biases are often encoded in target variable definition itself, before any data collection or training. We present an interactive simulator, FairTargetSim (FTS), that illustrates how target variable definition impacts fairness. FTS is a valuable tool for algorithm developers, researchers, and non-technical stakeholders. FTS uses a case study of algorithmic hiring, using real-world data and user-defined target variables. FTS is open-source and available at: http://tinyurl.com/ftsinterface. The video accompanying this paper is here: http://tinyurl.com/ijcaifts.<|reference_end|>
@article{gala2024fairtargetsim:,
    title={FairTargetSim: An Interactive Simulator for Understanding and Explaining
  the Fairness Effects of Target Variable Definition},
    author={Dalia Gala, Milo Phillips-Brown, Naman Goel, Carinal Prunkl, Laura
  Alvarez Jubete, medb corcoran, Ray Eitel-Porter},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06031},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.06031},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.AI cs.CY}
}