no code implementations • 27 Oct 2023 • Wentao Guo, Andrew Wang, Bradon Thymes, Thorsten Joachims
We introduce the problem of ranking with slot constraints, which can be used to model a wide range of application problems -- from college admission with limited slots for different majors, to composing a stratified cohort of eligible participants in a medical trial.
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2023 • Jinsook Lee, Bradon Thymes, Joyce Zhou, Thorsten Joachims, Rene F. Kizilcec
University admission at many highly selective institutions uses a holistic review process, where all aspects of the application, including protected attributes (e. g., race, gender), grades, essays, and recommendation letters are considered, to compose an excellent and diverse class.
no code implementations • 15 Oct 2021 • Samuel Dooley, Ryan Downing, George Wei, Nathan Shankar, Bradon Thymes, Gudrun Thorkelsdottir, Tiye Kurtz-Miott, Rachel Mattson, Olufemi Obiwumi, Valeriia Cherepanova, Micah Goldblum, John P Dickerson, Tom Goldstein
Much recent research has uncovered and discussed serious concerns of bias in facial analysis technologies, finding performance disparities between groups of people based on perceived gender, skin type, lighting condition, etc.