Summary of Fale: Fairness-aware Ale Plots For Auditing Bias in Subgroups, by Giorgos Giannopoulos et al.
FALE: Fairness-Aware ALE Plots for Auditing Bias in Subgroups
by Giorgos Giannopoulos, Dimitris Sacharidis, Nikolas Theologitis, Loukas Kavouras, Ioannis Emiris
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a novel approach to identify subgroup bias in machine learning models. The authors focus on the explainability aspect of subgroup fairness, developing a method called FALE (Fairness aware Accumulated Local Effects) plots. These plots visualize the change in fairness for an affected population corresponding to different values of a feature or attribute. By extending ALE plots, the researchers aim to provide a user-friendly and comprehensible tool for identifying potential bias issues in subgroups. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to understand if a machine learning model is being fair to certain groups of people. This paper helps with that by creating a new way to show how the model’s fairness changes when different characteristics are present. They call it FALE plots, and it’s like an X-ray for bias in subgroups. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
