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When Can We Trust Fairness Audits? Identifying Reliability Boundaries of Third-party Audit Conclusions

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The Consistency Radius is introduced, a metric that quantifies the maximum distribution shift under which an audit conclusion based on a third-party dataset remains consistent, and a convex relaxation-based optimization method to estimate the radius using only model responses over the audit dataset is proposed.

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