arXiv:2510.20482cs.CV2025-10

提出可复现的面部属性推断方法,提升公平性评估可靠性。

Reliable and Reproducible Demographic Inference for Fairness in Face Analysis

  • 用预训练模型+非线性分类头的模块化迁移学习替代端到端训练。
  • 在多数据集上验证,对种族属性的推断准确率显著优于基线。
  • 引入身份内一致性指标衡量鲁棒性,适合关注公平性的研究者。

面部分析系统(FAS)的公平性评估通常依赖自动化的种族与性别属性推断(DAI),而其有效性取决于DAI的可靠性。本文从理论上证明:更可靠的DAI能带来更低偏差、更低方差的公平性估计。为此,我们提出一个完全可复现的DAI流程,采用预训练人脸识别编码器结合非线性分类头的模块化迁移学习方法。该方法在准确性、公平性和新提出的“身份内一致性”鲁棒性三个维度上进行评估,其中鲁棒性适用于任意人口分组方案。我们在多个数据集和训练设置下测试了性别与种族推断,结果表明,该方法在种族推断上表现显著优于强基线,尤其在更具挑战性的种族识别任务中。为促进透明与可复现性,我们将公开训练数据元信息、完整代码、预训练模型及评估工具包。本工作为公平性审计中的人口推断提供了可靠基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fairness evaluation in face analysis systems (FAS) typically depends on automatic demographic attribute inference (DAI), which itself relies on predefined demographic segmentation. However, the validity of fairness auditing hinges on the reliability of the DAI process. We begin by providing a theoretical motivation for this dependency, showing that improved DAI reliability leads to less biased and lower-variance estimates of FAS fairness. To address this, we propose a fully reproducible DAI pipeline that replaces conventional end-to-end training with a modular transfer learning approach. Our design integrates pretrained face recognition encoders with non-linear classification heads. We audit this pipeline across three dimensions: accuracy, fairness, and a newly introduced notion of robustness, defined via intra-identity consistency. The proposed robustness metric is applicable to any demographic segmentation scheme. We benchmark the pipeline on gender and ethnicity inference across multiple datasets and training setups. Our results show that the proposed method outperforms strong baselines, particularly on ethnicity, which is the more challenging attribute. To promote transparency and reproducibility, we will publicly release the training dataset metadata, full codebase, pretrained models, and evaluation toolkit. This work contributes a reliable foundation for demographic inference in fairness auditing.

公平性评估属性推断可复现性人脸分析

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