Summary of Fairness-aware Streaming Feature Selection with Causal Graphs, by Leizhen Zhang et al.
Fairness-Aware Streaming Feature Selection with Causal Graphs
by Leizhen Zhang, Lusi Li, Di Wu, Sheng Chen, Yi He
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers tackle a critical challenge in machine learning: balancing accuracy and fairness when working with streaming features. The technical hurdle lies in optimizing feature subsets for prediction while addressing two key issues: adapting to changing feature relevance and mitigating bias from non-associational correlations. To overcome these challenges, the authors propose Streaming Feature Selection with Causal Fairness (SFCF), a novel approach that constructs two causal graphs to model complex relationships between features, labels, and protected information. This allows for the removal of biased features and the preservation of learning accuracy. The paper evaluates SFCF on five widely used datasets, demonstrating its superiority over six rival models in terms of efficiency, sparsity, and equalized odds. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study explores how to make machine learning more fair by carefully selecting which features to use when making predictions. The problem is that some features might be biased or misleading, so we need a way to identify and avoid them. The researchers developed a new method called Streaming Feature Selection with Causal Fairness (SFCF) to help solve this issue. SFCF uses special graphs to understand how different features relate to each other and to the thing we’re trying to predict. This allows us to remove any biased features and still get good results. The team tested their approach on five different datasets and found that it worked better than six other methods at balancing fairness and accuracy. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Feature selection » Machine learning
