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Unbiased Binning: Fairness-aware Attribute Representation
Abolfazl Asudeh (Mila), Zeinab (Mila), Asoodeh, Bita Asoodeh, Omid Asudeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21785 https://…

Unbiased Binning: Fairness-aware Attribute Representation
Discretizing raw features into bucketized attribute representations is a popular step before sharing a dataset. It is, however, evident that this step can cause significant bias in data and amplify unfairness in downstream tasks. In this paper, we address this issue by introducing the unbiased binning problem that, given an attribute to bucketize, finds its closest discretization to equal-size binning that satisfies group parity across different buckets. Defining a small set of boundary candi…