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Multi-Sensitive Distributional Fairness: Joint Wasserstein Audits and Shapley Allocation
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arXiv:2610.19252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness audits with several sensitive attributes are often performed one coordinate at a time. This can miss purely intersectional disparities: a score may be independent of each sensitive coordinate while depending on their joint profile. We study distributional demographic parity for a real-valued score using one-dimensional Wasserstein geometry. We distinguish two complementary constructions. Conditional and sequential audits characterize joint parity through their zero sets, but their positive values do not generally decompose a fixed joint Wasserstein disparity. By contrast, full-cell conditional quantile functions define a Hilbert-valued random variable whose variance is the joint disparity. Conditional expectations of this quantile process induce a monotone information game: every reveal order yields an exact martingale decomposition of the same joint disparity, while Shapley values provide an order-free attribution across sensitive attributes. Under independent sensitive attributes, the game reduces to a Hoeffding-ANOVA decomposition and Shapley splits each interaction energy equally among its members; under dependence, orthogonality is lost and explicit formulas reveal suppression and redundancy effects that marginal audits can hide. We give fixed-grid estimators and permutation calibration, and illustrate the framework on synthetic examples and ACSIncome. The resulting framework separates three questions that are often conflated: whether joint distributional parity holds, how a fixed joint disparity decomposes along an information path, and how that disparity can be attributed across sensitive coordinates without privileging an ordering.
Source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19252PreviousGeneralizing Identifiability Results in Causal Discovery from Complete Data to Missing Data SettingsNextState-Matched Sequence Conformal Prediction
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