On Hedden's proof that machine learning fairness metrics are flawed

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1. Fairness is about the just distribution of society's resources, and in ML, the main resource being distributed is model performance, e.g. the translation quality produced by machine translation...

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Anders Søgaard
University of Copenhagen
Klemens Kappel
University of Copenhagen
Thor Grünbaum
University of Copenhagen

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