Title: Learning Non-Discriminatory Predictors,
Abstract: We consider learning a predictor which is non-discriminatory with respect to
a "protected attribute" according to the notion of "equalized odds" proposed by
Hardt et al. [2016]. We study the problem of learning such a non-discriminatory
predictor from a finite training set, both statistically and computationally.
We show that a post-hoc correction approach, as suggested by Hardt et al, can
be highly suboptimal, present a nearly-optimal statistical procedure, argue
that the associated computational problem is intractable, and suggest a second
moment relaxation of the non-discrimination definition for which learning is
tractable.