What is Left After Distillation? How Knowledge Transfer Impacts Fairness and Bias

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08407v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:43:00 GMT
• Title: What is Left After Distillation? How Knowledge Transfer Impacts Fairness and Bias
• Authors: Aida Mohammadshahi, Yani Ioannou,
• Abstract summary: As many as 41% of the classes are statistically significantly affected by distillation when comparing class-wise accuracy. This study highlights the uneven effects of Knowledge Distillation on certain classes and its potentially significant role in fairness.
• Score: 1.03590082373586
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Knowledge Distillation is a commonly used Deep Neural Network compression method, which often maintains overall generalization performance. However, we show that even for balanced image classification datasets, such as CIFAR-100, Tiny ImageNet and ImageNet, as many as 41% of the classes are statistically significantly affected by distillation when comparing class-wise accuracy (i.e. class bias) between a teacher/distilled student or distilled student/non-distilled student model. Changes in class bias are not necessarily an undesirable outcome when considered outside of the context of a model's usage. Using two common fairness metrics, Demographic Parity Difference (DPD) and Equalized Odds Difference (EOD) on models trained with the CelebA, Trifeature, and HateXplain datasets, our results suggest that increasing the distillation temperature improves the distilled student model's fairness -- for DPD, the distilled student even surpasses the fairness of the teacher model at high temperatures. This study highlights the uneven effects of Knowledge Distillation on certain classes and its potentially significant role in fairness, emphasizing that caution is warranted when using distilled models for sensitive application domains.

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