arXiv:2505.13116cs.LGcs.AI2025-05被引 1

提出CFSMOTE,同时解决数据不平衡与算法偏见问题。

Continuous Fair SMOTE -- Fairness-Aware Stream Learning from Imbalanced Data

  • 在过采样时引入情境测试与公平性分组平衡机制
  • 在多个公平性指标上显著优于原始C-SMOTE
  • 适合关注公平性的在线学习场景

随着机器学习越来越多地以在线方式处理动态数据流,其公平性成为日益突出的伦理与法律问题。在许多应用场景中,数据类别不平衡也需解决以保障预测性能。当前的公平感知流学习方法通常通过事前或事后处理分别优化单一歧视度量,并单独处理类别不平衡问题。虽然连续SMOTE(C-SMOTE)是一种高效且模型无关的类别不平衡缓解方法,但其副作用常引入算法偏见。为此,我们提出一种公平感知的连续SMOTE变体——CFSMOTE,作为预处理方法,在过采样过程中同时应对类别不平衡与公平性挑战,通过情境测试和公平相关群体的平衡实现。与其它公平感知流学习方法不同,CFSMOTE不只优化单一公平性度量,从而避免潜在的权衡问题。实验表明,相比原始C-SMOTE,CFSMOTE在多个常用群体公平性度量上均有显著提升,且保持了竞争力的性能,甚至优于其他公平感知算法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As machine learning is increasingly applied in an online fashion to deal with evolving data streams, the fairness of these algorithms is a matter of growing ethical and legal concern. In many use cases, class imbalance in the data also needs to be dealt with to ensure predictive performance. Current fairness-aware stream learners typically attempt to solve these issues through in- or post-processing by focusing on optimizing one specific discrimination metric, addressing class imbalance in a separate processing step. While C-SMOTE is a highly effective model-agnostic pre-processing approach to mitigate class imbalance, as a side effect of this method, algorithmic bias is often introduced. Therefore, we propose CFSMOTE - a fairness-aware, continuous SMOTE variant - as a pre-processing approach to simultaneously address the class imbalance and fairness concerns by employing situation testing and balancing fairness-relevant groups during oversampling. Unlike other fairness-aware stream learners, CFSMOTE is not optimizing for only one specific fairness metric, therefore avoiding potentially problematic trade-offs. Our experiments show significant improvement on several common group fairness metrics in comparison to vanilla C-SMOTE while maintaining competitive performance, also in comparison to other fairness-aware algorithms.

公平性流学习数据不平衡SMOTE

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