arXiv:2510.02017cs.LG2025-10中稿 · NeurIPS

通过对比学习与定制增强,提升表格数据的公平性。

FairContrast: Enhancing Fairness through Contrastive learning and Customized Augmenting Methods on Tabular Data

  • 设计正样本选择策略,结合自监督与有监督对比学习。
  • 在多个表格数据集上显著降低偏见,准确率损失小。
  • 适合关注模型公平性的研究人员和从业者。

随着人工智能系统日益融入日常生活,开发公平无偏的模型变得愈发关键。考虑到人工智能的社会影响不仅是技术挑战,更是一种道德责任。已有大量研究证明,学习公平且鲁棒的表征是有效去偏并提升公平性的有力方法,同时保持预测任务所需的关键信息。基于自监督和对比学习的表征学习框架在多个领域展现出卓越的鲁棒性和泛化能力。尽管这些方法在表格数据上的应用日益增多,其表征中的公平性问题仍鲜有探讨。本研究提出一种专为表格数据设计的对比学习框架,以解决偏见并学习公平表征。通过战略性地选择正样本对,并结合监督与自监督对比学习,我们相比现有最先进方法显著降低了偏见。实验结果表明,该方法在最小化准确率损失的前提下有效缓解偏见,并可良好应用于多种下游任务。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As AI systems become more embedded in everyday life, the development of fair and unbiased models becomes more critical. Considering the social impact of AI systems is not merely a technical challenge but a moral imperative. As evidenced in numerous research studies, learning fair and robust representations has proven to be a powerful approach to effectively debiasing algorithms and improving fairness while maintaining essential information for prediction tasks. Representation learning frameworks, particularly those that utilize self-supervised and contrastive learning, have demonstrated superior robustness and generalizability across various domains. Despite the growing interest in applying these approaches to tabular data, the issue of fairness in these learned representations remains underexplored. In this study, we introduce a contrastive learning framework specifically designed to address bias and learn fair representations in tabular datasets. By strategically selecting positive pair samples and employing supervised and self-supervised contrastive learning, we significantly reduce bias compared to existing state-of-the-art contrastive learning models for tabular data. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in mitigating bias with minimum trade-off in accuracy and leveraging the learned fair representations in various downstream tasks.

表格数据对比学习公平性

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