用图模型统一解决个体与群体公平性,提升AI决策可信度。
On the use of graph models to achieve individual and group fairness
- 基于层叠扩散理论构建公平性约束空间,实现去偏投影。
- 在标准基准上同时优化准确率与公平性,平衡帕累托前沿。
- 提供可解释的SHAP解析表达式,适合负责任AI场景使用。
机器学习算法广泛应用于司法、医疗和金融等关键决策领域,对公平性提出迫切需求。然而,现有模型在公平性方面的理论理解仍不充分,个体与群体公平之间的关联机制尚不清晰。本文提出基于层叠扩散(Sheaf Diffusion)的理论框架,结合动力系统与同调工具建模公平性。具体方法将输入数据映射至一个无偏空间,编码公平约束,从而获得公平解。此外,设计多种网络拓扑结构以适配不同公平度量,形成统一处理个体与群体偏见的方法。所提模型具备闭式表达的SHAP值,具有可解释性,增强其在负责任人工智能中的适用性。实验在仿真研究与标准公平性基准上验证,结果显示方法在准确率与公平性之间取得良好权衡,并通过超参数敏感性分析和输出解释深化理解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Machine Learning algorithms are ubiquitous in key decision-making contexts such as justice, healthcare and finance, which has spawned a great demand for fairness in these procedures. However, the theoretical properties of such models in relation with fairness are still poorly understood, and the intuition behind the relationship between group and individual fairness is still lacking. In this paper, we provide a theoretical framework based on Sheaf Diffusion to leverage tools based on dynamical systems and homology to model fairness. Concretely, the proposed method projects input data into a bias-free space that encodes fairness constrains, resulting in fair solutions. Furthermore, we present a collection of network topologies handling different fairness metrics, leading to a unified method capable of dealing with both individual and group bias. The resulting models have a layer of interpretability in the form of closed-form expressions for their SHAP values, consolidating their place in the responsible Artificial Intelligence landscape. Finally, these intuitions are tested on a simulation study and standard fairness benchmarks, where the proposed methods achieve satisfactory results. More concretely, the paper showcases the performance of the proposed models in terms of accuracy and fairness, studying available trade-offs on the Pareto frontier, checking the effects of changing the different hyper-parameters, and delving into the interpretation of its outputs.
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