Summary of Adaptive Boosting with Fairness-aware Reweighting Technique For Fair Classification, by Xiaobin Song et al.
Adaptive Boosting with Fairness-aware Reweighting Technique for Fair Classification
by Xiaobin Song, Zeyuan Liu, Benben Jiang
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to achieve fair classification is proposed by introducing a fairness-aware reweighting technique for base classifiers in an interpretable variant of AdaBoost. The fair AdaBoost (FAB) algorithm can maintain the predictive performance of AdaBoost while significantly improving classification fairness at a small cost of accuracy. FAB is demonstrated on three real-world datasets, showing that it outperforms state-of-the-art fair classification methods. Theoretical analyses are provided to support the effectiveness of the proposed method. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Fairness in data-driven classification models is important for many applications, including healthcare and finance. A new approach called Fair AdaBoost (FAB) is designed to make these models fairer while still being accurate. FAB uses a special technique to adjust how much each piece of training data is used, which helps it be more fair. This approach is tested on three real-world datasets and shows that it can make the models fairer without sacrificing too much accuracy. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification
