Thu, January 2, 11:00 AM
45 MINUTES
Fairness in Clustering Algorithms

Clustering is a fundamental problem in unsupervised machine learning. The goal of this problem is to partition a set of given data points so that similar points are grouped together. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of several ways to formalize this problem and algorithms that have been proposed to solve them. Many applications of clustering require the solution to satisfy additional desirable properties such as fairness. I will give a formal definition of clustering with fairness, and present a number of recent results in this area.

Mohammad Mahdian

Staff Research Scientist, Google Research

Mohammad Mahdian has a B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, an M.Sc. from University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from MIT. He is currently a research scientist at Google Research in New York. Prior to Google, he has worked at Yahoo! Research and Microsoft Research.