arXiv:2509.16491cs.LGcs.CE2025-09被引 2

针对生理信号模型微调中的公平性问题,提出显式纠偏框架FairTune。

FairTune: A Bias-Aware Fine-Tuning Framework Towards Fair Heart Rate Prediction from PPG

  • 引入三种纠偏策略:逆频率加权、群体分布鲁棒优化与对抗去偏。
  • 微调可降80%误差,但可能加剧性别偏差,尤其在大模型和域迁移下。
  • 适用于医疗健康领域模型部署者,关注算法公平性的研究者。

基于重症监护室(ICU)数据预训练的生理基础模型(如PPG-GPT)在不同场景下用于心率预测日益普遍。微调这些模型以适配本地数据被视为实用且可扩展的方法,但其对人口统计公平性的影响,尤其是在域偏移下的表现仍不明确。本文在三个异构数据集(ICU、可穿戴设备、智能手机)上对PPG-GPT进行微调,系统评估其对心率预测准确性和性别公平性的影响。结果显示,微调可将平均绝对误差降低最多达80%,但可能同时扩大公平性差距,尤其在大模型及显著分布偏移情况下。为此,我们提出公平感知的微调框架FairTune,评估了三种缓解策略:基于逆组频率的类权重(IF)、群体分布鲁棒优化(GroupDRO)和对抗去偏(ADV)。实验表明,IF与GroupDRO能显著缩小公平性差距,且不影响准确性,效果因部署场景而异。表征分析显示,这些方法通过重塑内部嵌入减少人口特征聚类。研究强调,公平性不会自然伴随微调出现,必须主动干预才能实现公正部署。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Foundation models pretrained on physiological data such as photoplethysmography (PPG) signals are increasingly used to improve heart rate (HR) prediction across diverse settings. Fine-tuning these models for local deployment is often seen as a practical and scalable strategy. However, its impact on demographic fairness particularly under domain shifts remains underexplored. We fine-tune PPG-GPT a transformer-based foundation model pretrained on intensive care unit (ICU) data across three heterogeneous datasets (ICU, wearable, smartphone) and systematically evaluate the effects on HR prediction accuracy and gender fairness. While fine-tuning substantially reduces mean absolute error (up to 80%), it can simultaneously widen fairness gaps, especially in larger models and under significant distributional characteristics shifts. To address this, we introduce FairTune, a bias-aware fine-tuning framework in which we benchmark three mitigation strategies: class weighting based on inverse group frequency (IF), Group Distributionally Robust Optimization (GroupDRO), and adversarial debiasing (ADV). We find that IF and GroupDRO significantly reduce fairness gaps without compromising accuracy, with effectiveness varying by deployment domain. Representation analyses further reveal that mitigation techniques reshape internal embeddings to reduce demographic clustering. Our findings highlight that fairness does not emerge as a natural byproduct of fine-tuning and that explicit mitigation is essential for equitable deployment of physiological foundation models.

心率预测公平性微调生理建模

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