Title :

On Meritocracy in Optimal Set Selection

Author(s) :

Buening, Thomas Kleine [Auteur]
University of Oslo [UiO]
Segal, Meirav [Auteur]
University of Oslo [UiO]
Basu, Debabrota [Auteur]
Scool [Scool]
George, Anne-Marie [Auteur]
University of Oslo [UiO]
Dimitrakakis, Christos [Auteur]
Université de Neuchâtel [UNINE]

Conference title :

EAAMO 2022- Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization

Conference organizers(s) :

ACM

City :

Arlington

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2022-10

Publication date :

2022-10-17

English keyword(s) :

Ethics of artificial intelligence
Meritocracy
Decision making under uncertainty
Utility Theory
Subset selection

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]
Informatique [cs]/Apprentissage [cs.LG]
Informatique [cs]/Informatique et théorie des jeux [cs.GT]

English abstract : [en]

Typically, merit is defined with respect to some intrinsic measure of worth. We instead consider a setting where an individual’s worth is relative: when a decision maker (DM) selects a set of individuals from a population ...
Show more >Typically, merit is defined with respect to some intrinsic measure of worth. We instead consider a setting where an individual’s worth is relative: when a decision maker (DM) selects a set of individuals from a population to maximise expected utility, it is natural to consider the expected marginal contribution (EMC) of each person to the utility. We show that this notion satisfies an axiomatic definition of fairness for this setting. We also show that for certain policy structures, this notion of fairness is aligned with maximising expected utility, while for linear utility functions it is identical to the Shapley value. However, for certain natural policies, such as those that select individuals with a specific set of attributes (e.g. high enough test scores for college admissions), there is a trade-off between meritocracy and utility maximisation. We analyse the effect of constraints on the policy on both utility and fairness in an extensive experiments based on college admissions and outcomes in Norwegian universities.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL