Participatory Personalization in Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03874v2
• Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:12:41 GMT
• Title: Participatory Personalization in Classification
• Authors: Hailey Joren, Chirag Nagpal, Katherine Heller, Berk Ustun
• Abstract summary: We introduce a family of classification models, called participatory systems, that let individuals opt into personalization at prediction time. We conduct a comprehensive empirical study of participatory systems in clinical prediction tasks, benchmarking them with common approaches for personalization and imputation. Our results demonstrate that participatory systems can facilitate and inform consent while improving performance and data use across all groups who report personal data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Machine learning models are often personalized with information that is protected, sensitive, self-reported, or costly to acquire. These models use information about people but do not facilitate nor inform their consent. Individuals cannot opt out of reporting personal information to a model, nor tell if they benefit from personalization in the first place. We introduce a family of classification models, called participatory systems, that let individuals opt into personalization at prediction time. We present a model-agnostic algorithm to learn participatory systems for personalization with categorical group attributes. We conduct a comprehensive empirical study of participatory systems in clinical prediction tasks, benchmarking them with common approaches for personalization and imputation. Our results demonstrate that participatory systems can facilitate and inform consent while improving performance and data use across all groups who report personal data.

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