提出两种公平性优化方法,分别应对有无敏感属性场景。
Optimisation Strategies for Ensuring Fairness in Machine Learning: With and Without Demographics
- 用算子优化与极小极大目标处理时序数据不公平问题
- 在COMPAS数据集上达顶尖性能,验证实际效果
- 无需敏感属性即可修复群体偏差,适合隐私敏感场景
确保公平性已成为人工智能及其相关算法的核心关切。本文对机器学习公平性领域进行了全面综述,并提出了两个形式化框架以解决该领域未决问题。第一个框架采用算子值优化和极小极大目标,用于处理时间序列中的不公平问题,在著名的COMPAS基准数据集上表现出色,证明了其在真实场景中的有效性。第二个框架针对常见数据集中缺乏性别、种族等敏感属性的问题,提出一种无需依赖敏感属性的群体无感偏差修复框架。该方法在Adult Census Income数据集上的分析验证了其有效性。此外,本文还提供了两个框架的详细算法分析及收敛性保证,确保所提方法的稳健性和可靠性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ensuring fairness has emerged as one of the primary concerns in AI and its related algorithms. Over time, the field of machine learning fairness has evolved to address these issues. This paper provides an extensive overview of this field and introduces two formal frameworks to tackle open questions in machine learning fairness. In one framework, operator-valued optimisation and min-max objectives are employed to address unfairness in time-series problems. This approach showcases state-of-the-art performance on the notorious COMPAS benchmark dataset, demonstrating its effectiveness in real-world scenarios. In the second framework, the challenge of lacking sensitive attributes, such as gender and race, in commonly used datasets is addressed. This issue is particularly pressing because existing algorithms in this field predominantly rely on the availability or estimations of such attributes to assess and mitigate unfairness. Here, a framework for a group-blind bias-repair is introduced, aiming to mitigate bias without relying on sensitive attributes. The efficacy of this approach is showcased through analyses conducted on the Adult Census Income dataset. Additionally, detailed algorithmic analyses for both frameworks are provided, accompanied by convergence guarantees, ensuring the robustness and reliability of the proposed methodologies.
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