Designing Equitable Algorithms

1 code implementation • 17 Feb 2023 • Alex Chohlas-Wood, Madison Coots, Sharad Goel, Julian Nyarko

Predictive algorithms are now used to help distribute a large share of our society's resources and sanctions, such as healthcare, loans, criminal detentions, and tax audits.

Decision Making Fairness

Learning to be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision-Making

1 code implementation • 18 Sep 2021 • Alex Chohlas-Wood, Madison Coots, Henry Zhu, Emma Brunskill, Sharad Goel

In our approach, one first elicits stakeholder preferences over the space of possible decisions and the resulting outcomes--such as preferences for balancing spending parity against court appearance rates.

Decision Making Fairness

Generative Grading: Near Human-level Accuracy for Automated Feedback on Richly Structured Problems

1 code implementation • 23 May 2019 • Ali Malik, Mike Wu, Vrinda Vasavada, Jinpeng Song, Madison Coots, John Mitchell, Noah Goodman, Chris Piech

In this paper, we present generative grading: a novel computational approach for providing feedback at scale that is capable of accurately grading student work and providing nuanced, interpretable feedback.