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Addressing fairness in classification with a model-agnostic multi-objective algorithm

Padh, Kirtan
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Antognini, Diego Matteo  
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Lejal Glaude, Emma
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December 17, 2021
Proceedings of the 37th conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence UAI 2021

The goal of fairness in classification is to learn a classifier that does not discriminate against groups of individuals based on sensitive attributes, such as race and gender. One approach to designing fair algorithms is to use relaxations of fairness notions as regularization terms or in a constrained optimization problem. We observe that the hyperbolic tangent function can approximate the indicator function. We leverage this property to define a differentiable relaxation that approximates fairness notions provably better than existing relaxations. In addition, we propose a model-agnostic multi-objective architecture that can simultaneously optimize for multiple fairness notions and multiple sensitive attributes and supports all statistical parity-based notions of fairness. We use our relaxation with the multi-objective architecture to learn fair classifiers. Experiments on public datasets show that our method suffers a significantly lower loss of accuracy than current debiasing algorithms relative to the unconstrained model.

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Author(s)
Padh, Kirtan
Antognini, Diego Matteo  
Lejal Glaude, Emma
Faltings, Boi  
Musat, Claudiu-Cristian  
Date Issued

2021-12-17

Published in
Proceedings of the 37th conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; 161

Start page

600

End page

609

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https://proceedings.mlr.press/v161/padh21a.html
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37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence UAI 2021

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July 27-30, 2021

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February 7, 2023
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