PreFair: Privately Generating Justifiably Fair Synthetic Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10310v2
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:11:51 GMT
• Title: PreFair: Privately Generating Justifiably Fair Synthetic Data
• Authors: David Pujol, Amir Gilad, Ashwin Machanavajjhala
• Abstract summary: PreFair is a system that allows for Differential Privacy (DP) fair synthetic data generation. We adapt the notion of justifiable fairness to fit the synthetic data generation scenario.
• Score: 17.037575948075215
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: When a database is protected by Differential Privacy (DP), its usability is limited in scope. In this scenario, generating a synthetic version of the data that mimics the properties of the private data allows users to perform any operation on the synthetic data, while maintaining the privacy of the original data. Therefore, multiple works have been devoted to devising systems for DP synthetic data generation. However, such systems may preserve or even magnify properties of the data that make it unfair, endering the synthetic data unfit for use. In this work, we present PreFair, a system that allows for DP fair synthetic data generation. PreFair extends the state-of-the-art DP data generation mechanisms by incorporating a causal fairness criterion that ensures fair synthetic data. We adapt the notion of justifiable fairness to fit the synthetic data generation scenario. We further study the problem of generating DP fair synthetic data, showing its intractability and designing algorithms that are optimal under certain assumptions. We also provide an extensive experimental evaluation, showing that PreFair generates synthetic data that is significantly fairer than the data generated by leading DP data generation mechanisms, while remaining faithful to the private data.

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