Summary of Fairpriori: Improving Biased Subgroup Discovery For Deep Neural Network Fairness, by Kacy Zhou et al.
Fairpriori: Improving Biased Subgroup Discovery for Deep Neural Network Fairness
by Kacy Zhou, Jiawen Wen, Nan Yang, Dong Yuan, Qinghua Lu, Huaming Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to detecting intersectional bias in machine learning models, which disproportionately affects members of subgroups. The existing tools for investigating intersectional bias lack important features such as support for multiple fairness metrics, fast and efficient computation, and user-friendly interpretation. To address this limitation, the authors introduce Fairpriori, a biased subgroup discovery method that incorporates the frequent itemset generation algorithm to facilitate effective and efficient investigation of intersectional bias. Fairpriori demonstrates superior effectiveness and efficiency compared to state-of-the-art methods in identifying intersectional bias. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Fairpriori is a new way to find unfairness in machine learning models. Imagine you’re developing a model that makes decisions about people, but it’s not being fair to certain groups. This can be very bad! Fairpriori helps by looking at how the model treats different groups and finding the ones that are being treated unfairly. It’s like a superpower for making sure AI is fair. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
