提出可区分直接与间接偏见的因果公平训练流程,用于医疗数据中的公平建模。
A pipeline for enabling path-specific causal fairness in observational health data
- 构建模型无关的流水线,显式分离医疗场景中的直接与间接偏见来源。
- 在真实医疗数据上验证,能同时提升模型公平性与准确性,缓解已有偏见。
- 适合关注医疗公平性、需处理社会与系统性差异的研究者使用。
在医疗场景中训练机器学习模型时,必须确保其不会复制或加剧现有医疗偏见。本文聚焦路径特定因果公平性,以更好理解偏见的社会与医学背景(如医生直接歧视与医疗系统准入差异),并刻画这些偏见如何体现在模型中。我们将在结构化公平模型映射到观察性医疗数据,并构建一个可泛化的因果公平建模流水线。该流程明确考虑具体医疗情境与不平等,定义目标“公平”模型。本工作填补两大空白:其一,通过解耦直接与间接偏见来源,扩展了“公平性-准确性”权衡的表征,并在已知偏见背景下联合呈现公平与准确性考量;其二,展示了一个未加公平约束的基础模型,在观察性医疗数据上训练后,可生成针对已知社会与医学不平等任务的因果公平下游预测。本研究提出一种模型无关的因果公平训练流程,有效应对医疗中的直接与间接偏见。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
When training machine learning (ML) models for potential deployment in a healthcare setting, it is essential to ensure that they do not replicate or exacerbate existing healthcare biases. Although many definitions of fairness exist, we focus on path-specific causal fairness, which allows us to better consider the social and medical contexts in which biases occur (e.g., direct discrimination by a clinician or model versus bias due to differential access to the healthcare system) and to characterize how these biases may appear in learned models. In this work, we map the structural fairness model to the observational healthcare setting and create a generalizable pipeline for training causally fair models. The pipeline explicitly considers specific healthcare context and disparities to define a target "fair" model. Our work fills two major gaps: first, we expand on characterizations of the "fairness-accuracy" tradeoff by detangling direct and indirect sources of bias and jointly presenting these fairness considerations alongside considerations of accuracy in the context of broadly known biases. Second, we demonstrate how a foundation model trained without fairness constraints on observational health data can be leveraged to generate causally fair downstream predictions in tasks with known social and medical disparities. This work presents a model-agnostic pipeline for training causally fair machine learning models that address both direct and indirect forms of healthcare bias.
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