arXiv:2506.00627cs.GTcs.AI2025-06AAAI被引 3

研究评分规则不透明如何影响不同群体的公平性,发现噪声越大,低成本群体反而可能受损。

The Disparate Effects of Partial Information in Bayesian Strategic Learning

  • 区分盲目和贝叶斯学习者,分析噪声信号下策略行为差异
  • 噪声越高,盲目者群体间收益差距无界扩大,低成本群体反受更大伤害
  • 贝叶斯者差距有界,中等透明度时公平性最佳,适合关注公平性的算法设计者

我们研究了评分规则部分信息对战略学习中公平性的影响。在战略学习中,学习者设定评分规则,个体通过修改特征以改善结果,但需付出代价。本文中,个体无法直接观察评分规则,仅接收到该规则的噪声信号。考虑两类个体模型:(i) 盲目个体,将噪声信号当作真实规则;(ii) 贝叶斯个体,基于信号更新先验信念。目标是理解不同特征修改成本群体间的收益差异如何随规则透明度变化。对于盲目个体,我们证明收益差异可随噪声无限扩大,且低成本群体在透明度有限时反而遭受更严重不公平。相反,贝叶斯个体的差异始终有界。我们全面刻画了差异随透明度的变化关系,发现其非单调——通常在中等透明度时最小化。最后,扩展至群体不仅成本不同,先验信念也异的情况,研究该不对称性对公平性的影响。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study how partial information about scoring rules affects fairness in strategic learning settings. In strategic learning, a learner deploys a scoring rule, and agents respond strategically by modifying their features -- at some cost -- to improve their outcomes. However, in our work, agents do not observe the scoring rule directly; instead, they receive a noisy signal of said rule. We consider two different agent models: (i) naive agents, who take the noisy signal at face value, and (ii) Bayesian agents, who update a prior belief based on the signal. Our goal is to understand how disparities in outcomes arise between groups that differ in their costs of feature modification, and how these disparities vary with the level of transparency of the learner's rule. For naive agents, we show that utility disparities can grow unboundedly with noise, and that the group with lower costs can, perhaps counter-intuitively, be disproportionately harmed under limited transparency. In contrast, for Bayesian agents, disparities remain bounded. We provide a full characterization of disparities across groups as a function of the level of transparency and show that they can vary non-monotonically with noise; in particular, disparities are often minimized at intermediate levels of transparency. Finally, we extend our analysis to settings where groups differ not only in cost, but also in prior beliefs, and study how this asymmetry influences fairness.

公平性贝叶斯学习策略学习

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