Fairness Indicators for Systematic Assessments of Visual Feature Extractors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07603v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:45:33 GMT
• Title: Fairness Indicators for Systematic Assessments of Visual Feature Extractors
• Authors: Priya Goyal, Adriana Romero Soriano, Caner Hazirbas, Levent Sagun, Nicolas Usunier
• Abstract summary: We propose three fairness indicators, which aim at quantifying harms and biases of visual systems. Our indicators use existing publicly available datasets collected for fairness evaluations. These indicators are not intended to be a substitute for a thorough analysis of the broader impact of the new computer vision technologies.
• Score: 21.141633753573764
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Does everyone equally benefit from computer vision systems? Answers to this question become more and more important as computer vision systems are deployed at large scale, and can spark major concerns when they exhibit vast performance discrepancies between people from various demographic and social backgrounds. Systematic diagnosis of fairness, harms, and biases of computer vision systems is an important step towards building socially responsible systems. To initiate an effort towards standardized fairness audits, we propose three fairness indicators, which aim at quantifying harms and biases of visual systems. Our indicators use existing publicly available datasets collected for fairness evaluations, and focus on three main types of harms and bias identified in the literature, namely harmful label associations, disparity in learned representations of social and demographic traits, and biased performance on geographically diverse images from across the world.We define precise experimental protocols applicable to a wide range of computer vision models. These indicators are part of an ever-evolving suite of fairness probes and are not intended to be a substitute for a thorough analysis of the broader impact of the new computer vision technologies. Yet, we believe it is a necessary first step towards (1) facilitating the widespread adoption and mandate of the fairness assessments in computer vision research, and (2) tracking progress towards building socially responsible models. To study the practical effectiveness and broad applicability of our proposed indicators to any visual system, we apply them to off-the-shelf models built using widely adopted model training paradigms which vary in their ability to whether they can predict labels on a given image or only produce the embeddings. We also systematically study the effect of data domain and model size.

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