Leveraging Semi-Supervised Learning for Fairness using Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13230v1
• Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 09:11:26 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Semi-Supervised Learning for Fairness using Neural Networks
• Authors: Vahid Noroozi, Sara Bahaadini, Samira Sheikhi, Nooshin Mojab, Philip S. Yu
• Abstract summary: There has been a growing concern about the fairness of decision-making systems based on machine learning. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised algorithm using neural networks benefiting from unlabeled data. The proposed model, called SSFair, exploits the information in the unlabeled data to mitigate the bias in the training data.
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• Abstract: There has been a growing concern about the fairness of decision-making systems based on machine learning. The shortage of labeled data has been always a challenging problem facing machine learning based systems. In such scenarios, semi-supervised learning has shown to be an effective way of exploiting unlabeled data to improve upon the performance of model. Notably, unlabeled data do not contain label information which itself can be a significant source of bias in training machine learning systems. This inspired us to tackle the challenge of fairness by formulating the problem in a semi-supervised framework. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised algorithm using neural networks benefiting from unlabeled data to not just improve the performance but also improve the fairness of the decision-making process. The proposed model, called SSFair, exploits the information in the unlabeled data to mitigate the bias in the training data.

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