AdapFair: Ensuring Continuous Fairness for Machine Learning Operations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15088v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:01:47 GMT
• Title: AdapFair: Ensuring Continuous Fairness for Machine Learning Operations
• Authors: Yinghui Huang, Zihao Tang, Xiangyu Chang,
• Abstract summary: We present a debiasing framework designed to find an optimal fair transformation of input data. We leverage the normalizing flows to enable efficient, information-preserving data transformation. We introduce an efficient optimization algorithm with closed-formed gradient computations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The biases and discrimination of machine learning algorithms have attracted significant attention, leading to the development of various algorithms tailored to specific contexts. However, these solutions often fall short of addressing fairness issues inherent in machine learning operations. In this paper, we present a debiasing framework designed to find an optimal fair transformation of input data that maximally preserves data predictability. A distinctive feature of our approach is its flexibility and efficiency. It can be integrated with any downstream black-box classifiers, providing continuous fairness guarantees with minimal retraining efforts, even in the face of frequent data drifts, evolving fairness requirements, and batches of similar tasks. To achieve this, we leverage the normalizing flows to enable efficient, information-preserving data transformation, ensuring that no critical information is lost during the debiasing process. Additionally, we incorporate the Wasserstein distance as the unfairness measure to guide the optimization of data transformations. Finally, we introduce an efficient optimization algorithm with closed-formed gradient computations, making our framework scalable and suitable for dynamic, real-world environments.

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