提出逻辑与多阶段处理器,提升信贷评分中多敏感变量的公平性
The more the merrier: logical and multistage processors in credit scoring
- 用逻辑处理器处理多个敏感变量的公平性问题
- 多阶段处理器可提升现有方法的公平性与准确性
- 适合关注信贷公平性的研究者与从业者
机器学习在组织公正、医疗等关键决策场景中广泛应用,催生了对程序公平性的强烈需求。本文聚焦金融领域中的公平机器学习,具体研究公平性技术在信贷评分中的应用。论文做出两项贡献:一是通过新提出的逻辑处理器(LP)填补了现有文献中针对多重敏感变量的应用空白;二是探索多阶段处理器(MP)方法,考察多种公平性技术组合是否能产生协同效应,实现更优的公平性或准确性。此外,还研究了上述两类方法在多变量情况下的整合效果。结果表明,逻辑处理器能有效处理多敏感变量问题,而多阶段处理器可显著提升现有方法的性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Machine Learning algorithms are ubiquitous in key decision-making contexts such as organizational justice or healthcare, which has spawned a great demand for fairness in these procedures. In this paper we focus on the application of fair ML in finance, more concretely on the use of fairness techniques on credit scoring. This paper makes two contributions. On the one hand, it addresses the existent gap concerning the application of established methods in the literature to the case of multiple sensitive variables through the use of a new technique called logical processors (LP). On the other hand, it also explores the novel method of multistage processors (MP) to investigate whether the combination of fairness methods can work synergistically to produce solutions with improved fairness or accuracy. Furthermore, we examine the intersection of these two lines of research by exploring the integration of fairness methods in the multivariate case. The results are very promising and suggest that logical processors are an appropriate way of handling multiple sensitive variables. Furthermore, multistage processors are capable of improving the performance of existing methods.
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