Summary of Bt-gan: Generating Fair Synthetic Healthdata Via Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks, by Resmi Ramachandranpillai et al.
Bt-GAN: Generating Fair Synthetic Healthdata via Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks
by Resmi Ramachandranpillai, Md Fahim Sikder, David Bergström, Fredrik Heintz
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 presents Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks (Bt-GAN), a synthetic data generator designed specifically for the healthcare domain. Existing synthetic health data generators primarily focus on quality, neglecting fairness concerns that can lead to biased outcomes in target tasks. Bt-GAN addresses these issues by proposing an information-constrained Data Generation Process and score-based weighted sampling to preserve sub-group densities. The approach learns a fair deterministic transformation based on algorithmic fairness notions and incentivizes the generator to learn from underrepresented regions of the data manifold. Experimental results using the MIMIC-III database demonstrate that Bt-GAN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while significantly improving fairness and minimizing bias amplification. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computer programs fair when they’re trained on fake healthcare data. Right now, those programs can be biased and make bad decisions because the fake data isn’t accurate or representative of everyone. The researchers created a new way to generate fake data that’s more realistic and includes all kinds of people. They tested it on real data and found that their method was much better at making fair predictions. This is important because healthcare programs need to be able to make good decisions without being biased, so this research can help improve those programs. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gan » Synthetic data
