arXiv:2604.14035cs.LGcs.AI2026-04

提出多利益相关者框架,用公平正义理论优化决策的性能与公平性平衡。

First-See-Then-Design: A Multi-Stakeholder View for Optimal Performance-Fairness Trade-Offs

论文配图:First-See-Then-Design: A Multi-Stakeholder View for Optimal Performance-Fairness Trade-Offs
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  • 构建决策者与被决策者双重视角的效用模型
  • 证明随机策略在特定条件下比确定性策略更优
  • 适合政策设计、算法治理等需要兼顾公平与效率的研究者

算法决策中的公平性通常基于预测空间定义,以预测性能为决策者效用代理,与群体平等或机会均等类公平性进行权衡。然而,这一视角忽视了预测如何转化为实际决策,以及对决策主体和决策者自身效用与福利的影响,尤其忽略了不同社会群体间的分配差异。本文提出一个基于福利经济学与分配正义的多利益相关者框架,显式建模决策者与被决策者的效用,并通过社会计划者效用来定义公平性,涵盖埃加里蒂安、罗尔斯主义等正义原则下的群体效用不平等。将公平决策建模为后验多目标优化问题,在决策者效用与社会计划者效用构成的二维空间中刻画可实现的性能-公平性权衡,分析不同决策策略(确定性/随机性、共享/组内专属)下的最优解。研究表明,在特定利益相关者效用条件下,随机策略更具优势,且实验验证简单随机策略可通过利用结果不确定性实现更优的性能-公平性平衡。本文主张从预测中心的公平转向透明、正义导向、多方协同的决策设计范式。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fairness in algorithmic decision-making is often defined in the predictive space, where predictive performance - used as a proxy for decision-maker (DM) utility - is traded off against prediction-based fairness notions, such as demographic parity or equality of opportunity. This perspective, however, ignores how predictions translate into decisions and ultimately into utilities and welfare for both DM and decision subjects (DS), as well as their allocation across social-salient groups. In this paper, we propose a multi-stakeholder framework for fair algorithmic decision-making grounded in welfare economics and distributive justice, explicitly modeling the utilities of both the DM and DS, and defining fairness via a social planner's utility that captures inequalities in DS utilities across groups under different justice-based fairness notions (e.g., Egalitarian, Rawlsian). We formulate fair decision-making as a post-hoc multi-objective optimization problem, characterizing the achievable performance-fairness trade-offs in the two-dimensional utility space of DM utility and the social planner's utility, under different decision policy classes (deterministic vs. stochastic, shared vs. group-specific). Using the proposed framework, we then identify conditions (in terms of the stakeholders' utilities) under which stochastic policies are more optimal than deterministic ones, and empirically demonstrate that simple stochastic policies can yield superior performance-fairness trade-offs by leveraging outcome uncertainty. Overall, we advocate a shift from prediction-centric fairness to a transparent, justice-based, multi-stakeholder approach that supports the collaborative design of decision-making policies.

公平性决策优化多利益相关者效用模型

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