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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
0.00013830311
Overall Rank
804 | 94.60%
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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1,162 Responsible Data Management 2020 VLDB 0.00011747599
1,943 Interpretable Data-Based Explanations for Fairness Debugging 2022 SIGMOD 9.3254131e-05
2,372 SCODED: Statistical Constraint Oriented Data Error Detection 2020 SIGMOD 8.5575299e-05
2,600 Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 2020 SIGMOD 8.2346824e-05
3,065 Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals 2021 SIGMOD 7.6876494e-05
3,746 Automated Feature Engineering for Algorithmic Fairness 2021 VLDB 7.0525348e-05
4,721 OmniFair: A Declarative System for Model-Agnostic Group Fairness in Machine Learning 2021 SIGMOD 6.451752e-05
5,179 Explainable AI: Foundations, Applications, Opportunities for Data Management Research 2022 SIGMOD 6.2382214e-05
5,412 Operationalizing Individual Fairness with Pairwise Fair Representations 2020 VLDB 6.1395499e-05
5,610 Responsible Data Integration: Next-generation Challenges 2022 SIGMOD 6.0660772e-05
6,142 iFlipper: Label Flipping for Individual Fairness 2023 SIGMOD 5.8706702e-05
6,482 OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport 2024 SIGMOD 5.7690673e-05
6,525 PreFair: Privately Generating Justifiably Fair Synthetic Data 2023 VLDB 5.7542422e-05
6,591 Mining Approximate Acyclic Schemes from Relations 2020 SIGMOD 5.7400812e-05
6,775 Causal Feature Selection for Algorithmic Fairness 2022 SIGMOD 5.6838053e-05
6,849 Through the Data Management Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Fair Classification 2022 SIGMOD 5.6637515e-05
6,877 Consistent Range Approximation for Fair Predictive Modeling 2023 VLDB 5.6564538e-05
6,963 Fairly Evaluating and Scoring Items in a Data Set 2020 VLDB 5.6303945e-05
7,185 DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems 2022 SIGMOD 5.5890883e-05
7,422 A Unified Approach for Resilience and Causal Responsibility with Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and LP Relaxations 2023 SIGMOD 5.5299903e-05
7,494 Identifying Insufficient Data Coverage for Ordinal Continuous-Valued Attributes 2021 SIGMOD 5.5087487e-05
8,213 Falcon: Fair Active Learning using Multi-armed Bandits 2024 VLDB 5.375648e-05
8,286 The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs 2020 VLDB 5.361078e-05
8,769 Is Integer Linear Programming All You Need for Deletion Propagation? A Unified and Practical Approach for Generalized Deletion Propagation 2025 VLDB 5.2811408e-05
9,014 The Cost of Representation by Subset Repairs 2025 VLDB 5.2364868e-05
9,241 Causal DAG Summarization 2025 VLDB 5.2032182e-05
9,580 Chameleon: Foundation Models for Fairness-aware Multi-modal Data Augmentation to Enhance Coverage of Minorities 2024 VLDB 5.154741e-05
9,957 Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset 2025 SIGMOD 5.1014161e-05
10,037 Maximizing Fair Content Spread via Edge Suggestion in Social Networks 2022 VLDB 5.0901047e-05
10,464 Fair-Count-Min: Frequency Estimation under Equal Group-wise Approximation Factor 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,465 Fair Data Pre-Processing with Imperfect Attribute Space 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,598 Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,629 Analyzing Deviations from Monotonic Trends through Database Repair 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,699 Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,706 On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,805 Measuring Database Unfairness via Dependency Quantification Under Differential Privacy 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,821 Unbiased Binning for Fairness-aware Attribute Representation 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,864 PipeLens: Identifying Interventions for Resolving Malfunctioning Data Science Pipelines 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,000 SubCure: A System for Stress-Testing Causal Conclusions Using Cardinality Repairs 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,150 CausaLens: A System for Summarizing Causal DAGs 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,525 FairHash: A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,717 Prerequisite-driven Fair Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Networks 2023 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,987 Enforcing Constraints for Machine Learning Systems via Declarative Feature Selection: An Experimental Study 2021 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,362 Computing Optimal Repairs for Functional Dependencies 2018 PODS 0.00010912749
2,355 Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query) 2018 SIGMOD 8.5862478e-05
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