arXiv:2410.23273cs.LGcs.AI2024-10NeurIPS被引 17

提出非中心聚类的公平性框架,提升大群体聚类公平性。

Proportional Fairness in Non-Centroid Clustering

  • 将比例公平准则扩展至非中心聚类,损失依赖组内其他成员。
  • 新算法精确满足FJR公平性,且原算法有常数近似保证。
  • 实验表明传统聚类不公平,新方法更公平且代价小。

我们重新审视比例公平聚类框架,该框架旨在为大规模且凝聚的群体提供更强的公平保障。先前工作将其应用于中心聚类,其中个体的损失为其到所属簇中心的距离。本文将框架扩展至非中心聚类,即个体损失是其所在簇中其他成员的函数。通过适配两种比例公平准则——核心及其松弛形式完全代表(FJR)——到此设置。我们证明,仅在结构化损失函数下可近似核心,且现有改进的贪心捕获算法(GreedyCapture)对自然损失函数的近似效果不佳。相反,我们设计了一个新的(低效)算法GreedyCohesiveClustering,可在任意损失函数下精确实现FJR;并证明高效算法GreedyCapture能实现常数级别的FJR近似。此外,我们设计了一种高效的审计算法,可常数因子内估计任意聚类解的FJR近似度。真实数据实验表明,传统聚类算法高度不公平,而GreedyCapture显著更公平,且在常见聚类目标上仅付出适度代价。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We revisit the recently developed framework of proportionally fair clustering, where the goal is to provide group fairness guarantees that become stronger for groups of data points (agents) that are large and cohesive. Prior work applies this framework to centroid clustering, where the loss of an agent is its distance to the centroid assigned to its cluster. We expand the framework to non-centroid clustering, where the loss of an agent is a function of the other agents in its cluster, by adapting two proportional fairness criteria -- the core and its relaxation, fully justified representation (FJR) -- to this setting. We show that the core can be approximated only under structured loss functions, and even then, the best approximation we are able to establish, using an adaptation of the GreedyCapture algorithm developed for centroid clustering [Chen et al., 2019; Micha and Shah, 2020], is unappealing for a natural loss function. In contrast, we design a new (inefficient) algorithm, GreedyCohesiveClustering, which achieves the relaxation FJR exactly under arbitrary loss functions, and show that the efficient GreedyCapture algorithm achieves a constant approximation of FJR. We also design an efficient auditing algorithm, which estimates the FJR approximation of any given clustering solution up to a constant factor. Our experiments on real data suggest that traditional clustering algorithms are highly unfair, whereas GreedyCapture is considerably fairer and incurs only a modest loss in common clustering objectives.

聚类公平非中心聚类比例公平算法设计

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