arXiv:2505.18895stat.MLcs.CC2025-05被引 2

提出边际公平,让风险决策不受性别种族等属性影响

Marginal Fairness: Fair Decision-Making under Risk Measures

  • 用广义扭曲风险度量控制决策对受保护属性的敏感性
  • 在保险数据上验证可降低不公平风险,且符合欧盟定价监管要求
  • 适合金融保险等领域需合规的风险决策系统

本文提出边际公平,一种在存在性别、种族、宗教等受保护属性时实现公平决策的新个体公平准则。该准则确保基于广义扭曲风险度量的决策,对受保护属性的分布扰动不敏感,无论这些属性是连续、离散、类别或多元的。为实操此概念并反映现实监管环境(如欧盟性别中立定价法规),将高监管行业(如保险与金融)的业务决策建模为两步流程:(i) 预测阶段,基于受保护与非受保护协变量估计目标变量(如保险损失)的预测函数;(ii) 决策阶段,仅基于非受保护协变量,对目标变量应用广义扭曲风险度量以决定结果。在此步骤中,修改风险度量使其对受保护属性不敏感,从而在风险敏感、监管约束下实现公平。进一步通过级联敏感性概念,扩展框架以捕捉协变量间依赖如何传递受保护属性的影响。数值实验与使用汽车保险数据集的实证表明该框架可实际应用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper introduces marginal fairness, a new individual fairness notion for equitable decision-making in the presence of protected attributes such as gender, race, and religion. This criterion ensures that decisions based on generalized distortion risk measures are insensitive to distributional perturbations in protected attributes, regardless of whether these attributes are continuous, discrete, categorical, univariate, or multivariate. To operationalize this notion and reflect real-world regulatory environments (such as the EU gender-neutral pricing regulation), we model business decision-making in highly regulated industries (such as insurance and finance) as a two-step process: (i) a predictive modeling stage, in which a prediction function for the target variable (e.g., insurance losses) is estimated based on both protected and non-protected covariates; and (ii) a decision-making stage, in which a generalized distortion risk measure is applied to the target variable, conditional only on non-protected covariates, to determine the decision. In this second step, we modify the risk measure such that the decision becomes insensitive to the protected attribute, thus enforcing fairness to ensure equitable outcomes under risk-sensitive, regulatory constraints. Furthermore, by utilizing the concept of cascade sensitivity, we extend the marginal fairness framework to capture how dependencies between covariates propagate the influence of protected attributes through the modeling pipeline. A numerical study and an empirical implementation using an auto insurance dataset demonstrate how the framework can be applied in practice.

公平决策风险度量保险算法

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