Fairness Auditing with Multi-Agent Collaboration
Existing work in fairness auditing assumes that each audit is performed independently. In this paper, we consider multiple agents working together, each auditing the same platform for different tasks. Agents have two levers: their collaboration strategy, with or without coordination beforehand, and their strategy for sampling appropriate data points. We theoretically compare the interplay of these levers. Our main findings are that (i) collaboration is generally beneficial for accurate audits, (ii) basic sampling methods often prove to be effective, and (iii) counter-intuitively, extensive coordination on queries often deteriorates audits accuracy as the number of agents increases. Experiments on three large datasets confirm our theoretical results. Our findings motivate collaboration during fairness audits of platforms that use ML models for decision-making.
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de Vos, M., Dhasade, A. B., Garcia Bourrée, J., Kermarrec, A.-M., Le Merrer, E., Rottembourg, B., & Tredan, G. (2024). Fairness Auditing with Multi-Agent Collaboration. In U. Endriss (Editor), Proceedings of ECAI 2024 : 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19–24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024). https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA240604
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