Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness

Summary: Introduces interventional fairness by framing algorithmic fairness as a causal database repair problem. Shows sufficient conditions via admissible variables (not full causal models), develops repair algorithms with provable fairness guarantees, and demonstrates improvements on real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5714
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 0.00014514825
Overall Rank: 1,037 | 92.80%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3319901

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3,303	SCODED: Statistical Constraint Oriented Data Error Detection	2020	SIGMOD	7.2438671e-05
4,761	Automated Feature Engineering for Algorithmic Fairness	2021	VLDB	5.9341687e-05
4,866	OmniFair: A Declarative System for Model-Agnostic Group Fairness in Machine Learning	2021	SIGMOD	5.8620848e-05
4,875	Explainable AI: Foundations, Applications, Opportunities for Data Management Research	2022	SIGMOD	5.8552996e-05
5,407	Operationalizing Individual Fairness with Pairwise Fair Representations	2020	VLDB	5.523874e-05
5,982	Responsible Data Integration: Next-generation Challenges	2022	SIGMOD	5.2409386e-05
6,850	Through the Data Management Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Fair Classification	2022	SIGMOD	4.9036077e-05
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6,948	DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.8865863e-05
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7,073	Mining Approximate Acyclic Schemes from Relations	2020	SIGMOD	4.8378353e-05
7,449	OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport	2024	SIGMOD	4.7224022e-05
7,605	Causal Feature Selection for Algorithmic Fairness	2022	SIGMOD	4.6943015e-05
7,665	Fairly Evaluating and Scoring Items in a Data Set	2020	VLDB	4.6799478e-05
7,853	Consistent Range Approximation for Fair Predictive Modeling	2023	VLDB	4.6308623e-05
8,014	The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs	2020	VLDB	4.6020746e-05
8,058	iFlipper: Label Flipping for Individual Fairness	2023	SIGMOD	4.5903348e-05
8,608	PreFair: Privately Generating Justifiably Fair Synthetic Data	2023	VLDB	4.4810982e-05
8,839	The Cost of Representation by Subset Repairs	2025	VLDB	4.4346105e-05
9,373	Falcon: Fair Active Learning using Multi-armed Bandits	2024	VLDB	4.3460825e-05
9,644	Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset	2025	SIGMOD	4.3067693e-05
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10,140	Analyzing Deviations from Monotonic Trends through Database Repair	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,213	Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,223	On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,437	CausaLens: A System for Summarizing Causal DAGs	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
10,590	Causal DAG Summarization	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
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10,963	FairHash: A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap	2024	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,071	Chameleon: Foundation Models for Fairness-aware Multi-modal Data Augmentation to Enhance Coverage of Minorities	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,195	Prerequisite-driven Fair Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Networks	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,480	Enforcing Constraints for Machine Learning Systems via Declarative Feature Selection: An Experimental Study	2021	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,816	Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)	2018	SIGMOD	8.0747683e-05

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