Summary of Enhancing Fairness Through Reweighting: a Path to Attain the Sufficiency Rule, by Xuan Zhao and Klaus Broelemann and Salvatore Ruggieri and Gjergji Kasneci
Enhancing Fairness through Reweighting: A Path to Attain the Sufficiency Rule
by Xuan Zhao, Klaus Broelemann, Salvatore Ruggieri, Gjergji Kasneci
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Aug 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 paper introduces an innovative approach to enhancing the empirical risk minimization (ERM) process in model training through a refined reweighting scheme. The goal is to uphold fairness by ensuring that optimal predictors maintain consistency across diverse sub-groups. A bilevel formulation is employed, which explores sample reweighting strategies based on the space of sample weights rather than model size. The approach is validated empirically, showing consistent improvement in both prediction performance and fairness metrics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps make artificial intelligence (AI) more fair by making sure models treat different groups equally. It does this by changing how data is used to train AI models. The new way involves adjusting the importance of each piece of training data to ensure that the model is fair and accurate. This approach was tested on several different experiments and showed significant improvement in fairness while still being good at predicting outcomes. |
