arXiv:2409.17643stat.MLcs.LG2024-09NeurIPS被引 2

提出高效计算公平性与性能帕累托前沿的新方法,无需训练复杂模型。

Efficient Fairness-Performance Pareto Front Computation

  • 利用最优公平表示的结构特性,将问题转化为离散优化。
  • 通过现成凸凹规划方法高效求解,计算开销低。
  • 可作为各类表示学习算法的公平性-性能基准评估工具。

在现代表示学习中,表示的公平性与分类器性能之间存在固有权衡。由于优化算法复杂,难以判断某方法所得公平性-性能曲线是否接近真实数据分布下的最优帕累托前沿。本文提出一种新方法,无需训练复杂表示模型即可计算最优帕累托前沿。我们发现最优公平表示具有若干有用结构特性,使帕累托前沿计算可简化为紧凑的离散问题,并可通过现成的凹-凸规划方法高效求解。该方法不依赖具体表示模型,可作为表示学习算法的公平性-性能评估基准。我们在多个真实世界基准数据集上进行了实验验证。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

There is a well known intrinsic trade-off between the fairness of a representation and the performance of classifiers derived from the representation. Due to the complexity of optimisation algorithms in most modern representation learning approaches, for a given method it may be non-trivial to decide whether the obtained fairness-performance curve of the method is optimal, i.e., whether it is close to the true Pareto front for these quantities for the underlying data distribution. In this paper we propose a new method to compute the optimal Pareto front, which does not require the training of complex representation models. We show that optimal fair representations possess several useful structural properties, and that these properties enable a reduction of the computation of the Pareto Front to a compact discrete problem. We then also show that these compact approximating problems can be efficiently solved via off-the shelf concave-convex programming methods. Since our approach is independent of the specific model of representations, it may be used as the benchmark to which representation learning algorithms may be compared. We experimentally evaluate the approach on a number of real world benchmark datasets.

公平性帕累托前沿表示学习

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