Summary of Privacy at a Price: Exploring Its Dual Impact on Ai Fairness, by Mengmeng Yang et al.
Privacy at a Price: Exploring its Dual Impact on AI Fairness
by Mengmeng Yang, Ming Ding, Youyang Qu, Wei Ni, David Smith, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); 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 The paper addresses the crucial challenge of balancing individual privacy and fairness in machine learning (ML) models, particularly in critical sectors like healthcare and finance. While differential privacy (DP) mechanisms can protect privacy, they may unequally impact demographic subgroups’ prediction accuracy, leading to biased performance. Contrary to prevailing views, the study shows that the impact of DP on fairness is not monotonous; initially, it grows with increased noise, but then diminishes at higher privacy levels. The authors propose implementing gradient clipping in differentially private stochastic gradient descent ML methods to mitigate this negative impact and achieve a lower disparity growth threshold. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making sure that machine learning models are both private and fair. In other words, it’s trying to ensure that these models don’t unfairly discriminate against certain groups of people. To do this, the authors look at how adding more “noise” (or randomness) to the model affects its accuracy and fairness. They found that initially, adding more noise makes things worse, but if you add even more noise, it gets better again! The authors also suggest a way to fix this problem by adjusting the amount of noise added. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Stochastic gradient descent
