SAFES: Sequential Privacy and Fairness Enhancing Data Synthesis for Responsible AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09178v2
• Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 03:13:23 GMT
• Title: SAFES: Sequential Privacy and Fairness Enhancing Data Synthesis for Responsible AI
• Authors: Spencer Giddens, Fang Liu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce SAFES, a Sequential PrivAcy and Fairness Enhancing data Synthesis procedure. For reasonable privacy loss, SAFES-generated synthetic data achieve significantly improved fairness metrics with relatively low utility loss.
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• Abstract: As data-driven and AI-based decision making gains widespread adoption in most disciplines, it is crucial that both data privacy and decision fairness are appropriately addressed. While differential privacy (DP) provides a robust framework for guaranteeing privacy and several widely accepted methods have been proposed for improving fairness, the vast majority of existing literature treats the two concerns independently. For methods that do consider privacy and fairness simultaneously, they often only apply to a specific machine learning task, limiting their generalizability. In response, we introduce SAFES, a Sequential PrivAcy and Fairness Enhancing data Synthesis procedure that sequentially combines DP data synthesis with a fairness-aware data transformation. SAFES allows full control over the privacy-fairness-utility trade-off via tunable privacy and fairness parameters. We illustrate SAFES by combining AIM, a graphical model-based DP data synthesizer, with a popular fairness-aware data pre-processing transformation. Empirical evaluations on the Adult and COMPAS datasets demonstrate that for reasonable privacy loss, SAFES-generated synthetic data achieve significantly improved fairness metrics with relatively low utility loss.

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