xD Team Members Publish Working Paper on Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Demographic Models

We're excited to share a research project from xD done in collaboration with the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (SEHSD) of the Census Bureau to explore the use of Explainable AI (XAI) in identifying and mitigating bias. In this working paper, we highlight the use of XAI to identify bias within demographic models and the datasets used for these models. Two use case examples are presented for applying post-hoc explainability to traditional classification models to uncover bias in the predictions. We conclude with a robust discussion on how XAI can be used by policy makers and practitioners to mitigate bias by taking a data-driven explainable approach to policy decision making.

The working paper is hosted on the Census Resource Library under the title Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Bias Identification and Mitigation in Demographic Models.