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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
hfc6cb023c29b25e3
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00013788292
Overall Rank
804 | 94.62%
DOI
10.1145/3299869.3319901

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{salimi_sigmod19,
        title = {{Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness}},
        author = {Salimi, Babak and Rodriguez, Luke and Howe, Bill and Suciu, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3319901},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3319901},
        year = {2019}
}

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2,473 Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 2020 SIGMOD 8.3984284e-05
3,074 Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals 2021 SIGMOD 7.6622293e-05
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5,428 Operationalizing Individual Fairness with Pairwise Fair Representations 2020 VLDB 6.1192488e-05
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6,161 iFlipper: Label Flipping for Individual Fairness 2023 SIGMOD 5.8512581e-05
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6,600 Mining Approximate Acyclic Schemes from Relations 2020 SIGMOD 5.721104e-05
6,790 Causal Feature Selection for Algorithmic Fairness 2022 SIGMOD 5.6650111e-05
6,866 Through the Data Management Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Fair Classification 2022 SIGMOD 5.6450236e-05
6,897 Consistent Range Approximation for Fair Predictive Modeling 2023 VLDB 5.6377501e-05
6,984 Fairly Evaluating and Scoring Items in a Data Set 2020 VLDB 5.6117769e-05
7,194 DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.573413e-05
7,443 A Unified Approach for Resilience and Causal Responsibility with Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and LP Relaxations 2023 SIGMOD 5.5117047e-05
7,513 Identifying Insufficient Data Coverage for Ordinal Continuous-Valued Attributes 2021 SIGMOD 5.4906303e-05
8,229 Falcon: Fair Active Learning using Multi-armed Bandits 2024 VLDB 5.3578737e-05
8,301 The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs 2020 VLDB 5.3433509e-05
8,788 Is Integer Linear Programming All You Need for Deletion Propagation? A Unified and Practical Approach for Generalized Deletion Propagation 2025 VLDB 5.263678e-05
9,035 The Cost of Representation by Subset Repairs 2025 VLDB 5.2191717e-05
9,265 Causal DAG Summarization 2025 VLDB 5.1860131e-05
9,605 Chameleon: Foundation Models for Fairness-aware Multi-modal Data Augmentation to Enhance Coverage of Minorities 2024 VLDB 5.1376962e-05
9,990 Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset 2025 SIGMOD 5.0845476e-05
10,076 Maximizing Fair Content Spread via Edge Suggestion in Social Networks 2022 VLDB 5.0732737e-05
10,530 Fair-Count-Min: Frequency Estimation under Equal Group-wise Approximation Factor 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,531 Fair Data Pre-Processing with Imperfect Attribute Space 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,660 Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,690 Analyzing Deviations from Monotonic Trends through Database Repair 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,760 Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,767 On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
10,866 Measuring Database Unfairness via Dependency Quantification Under Differential Privacy 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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11,061 SubCure: A System for Stress-Testing Causal Conclusions Using Cardinality Repairs 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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11,574 FairHash: A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,763 Prerequisite-driven Fair Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Networks 2023 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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