arxivcs.LGstat.ML2026-07-06
Functional Bilevel Optimization for Predictive Fairness
Ieva Petrulionyte, Julien Mairal, Michael Arbel
When sensitive attributes are continuous and high-dimensional $-$ demographic score vectors, posteriors over attributes, age or income profiles $-$ enforcing full statistical independence is often too restrictive, and existing relaxations rely on indirect dependence penalties or…