Summary of Threshold-independent Fair Matching Through Score Calibration, by Mohammad Hossein Moslemi et al.
Threshold-Independent Fair Matching through Score Calibration
by Mohammad Hossein Moslemi, Mostafa Milani
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Databases (cs.DB)
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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 a new approach to Entity Matching (EM), a crucial task in various fields such as healthcare and finance. The current methods face challenges like false positives and negatives, which are typically addressed by adjusting thresholds. However, this can affect the fairness of outcomes, an often-overlooked factor in fair EM research. The existing body of research focuses on static thresholds, neglecting their impact on fairness. To address this, the authors propose a novel approach using metrics for evaluating biases in score-based binary classification, specifically distributional parity. This allows the application of various bias metrics without relying on threshold settings. Experiments with leading matching methods reveal potential biases, and by applying a calibration technique, the authors mitigate these biases while preserving accuracy across real-world datasets. The paper contributes to fairness in data cleaning, particularly within EM, by promoting a method for generating matching scores that reduce biases. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding matching records in different databases. It’s an important task because it helps us identify when multiple records refer to the same person or thing. Right now, this process isn’t very fair and can make mistakes. The authors of this paper want to change that by introducing a new way to do entity matching that reduces these mistakes and makes the results more accurate. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification
