Summary of Multimodal Gender Fairness in Depression Prediction: Insights on Data From the Usa & China, by Joseph Cameron et al.
Multimodal Gender Fairness in Depression Prediction: Insights on Data from the USA & China
by Joseph Cameron, Jiaee Cheong, Micol Spitale, Hatice Gunes
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being used by social agents and robots to detect and analyze mental wellbeing. However, concerns about bias and fairness in these algorithms are growing. Existing literature suggests that mental health conditions can manifest differently across genders and cultures. This paper hypothesizes that the representation of features (acoustic, textual, and visual) and their inter-modal relations would vary among subjects from different cultures and genders, impacting ML model performance and fairness. The study presents a first-of-its-kind evaluation of multimodal gender fairness in depression manifestation by analyzing two datasets from the USA and China. Thorough statistical and ML experimentation was conducted to ensure algorithm-independent results. Findings indicate differences between datasets, but it’s unclear whether this is due to depression manifestation or other external factors like data collection methodology. The study motivates a call for consistent and culturally aware data collection processes to address ML bias in depression detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Mental wellbeing agents and robots use machine learning algorithms, but these can be biased. We know mental health conditions affect people differently based on gender and culture. This paper looks at how features like sounds, words, and images vary between people from different cultures and genders, which affects the accuracy of these AI models. They tested this idea using two big datasets from the USA and China. The results show differences in the data, but it’s not clear if this is because depression looks different or if there are other reasons like how the data was collected. Overall, we need to make sure we collect data in a way that is fair and considers different cultures. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
