Summary of An Attention-based Framework For Fair Contrastive Learning, by Stefan K. Nielsen et al.
An Attention-based Framework for Fair Contrastive Learning
by Stefan K. Nielsen, Tan M. Nguyen
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 method for fair contrastive learning is proposed, which employs an attention mechanism to model bias-causing interactions. This enables the learning of a fairer and semantically richer embedding space. The attention mechanism avoids bias-causing samples that confound the model and focuses on bias-reducing samples that help learn meaningful representations. The approach significantly boosts bias removal from learned representations without compromising downstream accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Contrastive learning helps create unbiased data representations, especially in complex environments with sensitive information. However, existing methods require predefined assumptions about bias-causing interactions, limiting their ability to learn unbiased representations. This new method focuses on learning fair and meaningful representations by avoiding biased samples and using attention to reduce bias. It’s better at removing bias from learned representations without harming performance. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Embedding space
