arXiv:2507.05823cs.LGcs.CV2025-07AAAI被引 3

兼顾泛化与公平性,让模型在新场景下既准又公正。

Fair Domain Generalization: An Information-Theoretic View

  • 基于信息论推导风险与公平性的上界,指导算法设计。
  • 提出PAFDG框架,在多个数据集上实现更优的性能-公平权衡。
  • 适合关注模型跨域公平性的研究者与实践者。

领域泛化(DG)和算法公平性是机器学习中的两个关键挑战。然而,多数DG方法仅关注最小化未见目标域的期望风险,忽视了算法公平性;而公平性方法通常不考虑领域偏移,导致训练时的公平性无法推广到未见测试域。本文提出公平领域泛化(FairDG)问题,旨在最小化未见目标域的期望风险与公平性偏差。我们为多分类任务中具有多组敏感属性的情况,推导出基于互信息的新上界,揭示了算法设计的信息论洞察。基于此,我们提出帕累托最优公平性领域泛化(PAFDG)框架,通过帕累托优化建模效用-公平性权衡。在真实世界视觉与语言数据集上的实验表明,PAFDG相比现有方法实现了更优的效用-公平性平衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Domain generalization (DG) and algorithmic fairness are two critical challenges in machine learning. However, most DG methods focus only on minimizing expected risk in the unseen target domain without considering algorithmic fairness. Conversely, fairness methods typically do not account for domain shifts, so the fairness achieved during training may not generalize to unseen test domains. In this work, we bridge these gaps by studying the problem of Fair Domain Generalization (FairDG), which aims to minimize both expected risk and fairness violations in unseen target domains. We derive novel mutual information-based upper bounds for expected risk and fairness violations in multi-class classification tasks with multi-group sensitive attributes. These bounds provide key insights for algorithm design from an information-theoretic perspective. Guided by these insights, we introduce PAFDG (Pareto-Optimal Fairness for Domain Generalization), a practical framework that solves the FairDG problem and models the utility-fairness trade-off through Pareto optimization. Experiments on real-world vision and language datasets show that PAFDG achieves superior utility-fairness trade-offs compared to existing methods.

领域泛化算法公平信息论帕累托优化

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