An example of prediction which complies with Demographic Parity and equalizes group-wise risks in the context of regression

Let be a triplet following some joint distribution with feature vector , sensitive attribute , and target variable . The Bayes optimal prediction which does not produce Disparate Treatment is defined as . We provide a non-trivial example of a prediction which satisfies two common group-fairness notions: Demographic Parity \begin{align} (f(X) | S = 1) &\stackrel{d}{=} (f(X) | S = 2) \end{align} and Equal Group-Wise Risks \begin{align} \mathbb{E}[(f^*(X) - f(X))^2 | S = 1] = \mathbb{E}[(f^*(X) - f(X))^2 | S = 2]. \end{align} To the best of our knowledge this is the first explicit construction of a non-constant predictor satisfying the above. We discuss several implications of this result on better understanding of mathematical notions of algorithmic fairness.
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