提出一种联邦学习公平性后处理框架,同时保障局部与全局公平。
LoGoFair: Post-Processing for Local and Global Fairness in Federated Learning
- 通过贝叶斯最优分类器实现局部与全局公平约束下的平衡
- 在三个真实数据集上验证,兼顾准确率与公平性
- 模型无关设计,适合各类联邦学习场景
联邦学习(FL)因其能够从分散数据源中学习而受到广泛关注。随着其在决策场景中的应用增多,解决不同敏感群体(如男女)间的公平性问题至关重要。现有研究多关注客户端数据的局部公平或跨所有客户端的整体公平,但仅侧重其一的方法难以应对两个关键挑战:(CH1)在统计异质性下,全局公平不保证局部公平,反之亦然;(CH2)在模型无关设置下实现公平。为此,本文提出一种新型后处理框架LoGoFair,以在联邦学习中同时实现局部与全局公平。为应对CH1,LoGoFair寻求在局部与全局公平约束下的贝叶斯最优分类器,实现概率意义上的最佳准确率-公平性权衡;为应对CH2,采用模型无关的联邦后处理机制,使客户端协作优化全局公平的同时保障局部公平,从而在联邦学习中获得最优公平分类器。在三个真实数据集上的实验结果进一步验证了该框架的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Federated learning (FL) has garnered considerable interest for its capability to learn from decentralized data sources. Given the increasing application of FL in decision-making scenarios, addressing fairness issues across different sensitive groups (e.g., female, male) in FL is crucial. Current research often focuses on facilitating fairness at each client's data (local fairness) or within the entire dataset across all clients (global fairness). However, existing approaches that focus exclusively on either local or global fairness fail to address two key challenges: (\textbf{CH1}) Under statistical heterogeneity, global fairness does not imply local fairness, and vice versa. (\textbf{CH2}) Achieving fairness under model-agnostic setting. To tackle the aforementioned challenges, this paper proposes a novel post-processing framework for achieving both Local and Global Fairness in the FL context, namely LoGoFair. To address CH1, LoGoFair endeavors to seek the Bayes optimal classifier under local and global fairness constraints, which strikes the optimal accuracy-fairness balance in the probabilistic sense. To address CH2, LoGoFair employs a model-agnostic federated post-processing procedure that enables clients to collaboratively optimize global fairness while ensuring local fairness, thereby achieving the optimal fair classifier within FL. Experimental results on three real-world datasets further illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed LoGoFair framework.
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