arXiv:2511.09768cs.AIcs.LG2025-11中稿 · AAAI

用逻辑编程建模偏见,让神经网络自动纠正不公平问题。

ProbLog4Fairness: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Modeling and Mitigating Bias

  • 用ProbLog语言描述偏见假设,建立因果关系
  • 在真实表格和图像数据上成功降低算法偏见
  • 灵活适配多种偏见类型,解释性强适合合规场景

将公平性定义付诸实践颇具挑战,因多种定义可能相互冲突且各有合理性。与其依赖固定公平性标准,不如根据具体任务背景中的系统性偏见特征,以非正式假设直接描述算法偏见,并用于训练阶段的偏见缓解。然而,目前尚缺乏一种既严谨、又灵活且可解释的框架来整合此类假设。本文提出基于ProbLog的神经符号方法,将偏见假设形式化为概率逻辑程序,通过其神经符号扩展实现与神经网络训练的无缝集成。我们设计了多类偏见表达模板,在具有已知偏见的合成表格数据集上验证了方法的通用性。利用对偏见扭曲程度的估计,我们在真实世界表格和图像数据中成功缓解了算法偏见。结果表明,相较于基线方法(通常仅支持固定偏见类型或公平性概念),ProbLog4Fairness因能灵活建模相关偏见假设而表现更优。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Operationalizing definitions of fairness is difficult in practice, as multiple definitions can be incompatible while each being arguably desirable. Instead, it may be easier to directly describe algorithmic bias through ad-hoc assumptions specific to a particular real-world task, e.g., based on background information on systemic biases in its context. Such assumptions can, in turn, be used to mitigate this bias during training. Yet, a framework for incorporating such assumptions that is simultaneously principled, flexible, and interpretable is currently lacking. Our approach is to formalize bias assumptions as programs in ProbLog, a probabilistic logic programming language that allows for the description of probabilistic causal relationships through logic. Neurosymbolic extensions of ProbLog then allow for easy integration of these assumptions in a neural network's training process. We propose a set of templates to express different types of bias and show the versatility of our approach on synthetic tabular datasets with known biases. Using estimates of the bias distortions present, we also succeed in mitigating algorithmic bias in real-world tabular and image data. We conclude that ProbLog4Fairness outperforms baselines due to its ability to flexibly model the relevant bias assumptions, where other methods typically uphold a fixed bias type or notion of fairness.

公平性神经符号偏见缓解

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