Fairness and Diversity in Information Access Systems

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العنوان: Fairness and Diversity in Information Access Systems
المؤلفون: Porcaro, Lorenzo, Castillo, Carlos, Gómez, Emilia, Vinagre, João
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Information Retrieval
الوصف: Among the seven key requirements to achieve trustworthy AI proposed by the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI-HLEG) established by the European Commission (EC), the fifth requirement ("Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness") declares: "In order to achieve Trustworthy AI, we must enable inclusion and diversity throughout the entire AI system's life cycle. [...] This requirement is closely linked with the principle of fairness". In this paper, we try to shed light on how closely these two distinct concepts, diversity and fairness, may be treated by focusing on information access systems and ranking literature. These concepts should not be used interchangeably because they do represent two different values, but what we argue is that they also cannot be considered totally unrelated or divergent. Having diversity does not imply fairness, but fostering diversity can effectively lead to fair outcomes, an intuition behind several methods proposed to mitigate the disparate impact of information access systems, i.e. recommender systems and search engines.
Comment: Presented at the European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF'23) Winterthur, Switzerland, June 7-9, 2023
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09319
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2305.09319
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv