Summary of Towerdebias: a Novel Debiasing Method Based on the Tower Property, by Norman Matloff and Aditya Mittal
TowerDebias: A Novel Debiasing Method based on the Tower Property
by Norman Matloff, Aditya Mittal
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Probability (math.PR); Applications (stat.AP); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper introduces towerDebias (tDB), a novel approach designed to reduce the influence of sensitive variables in predictions made by black-box machine learning models. The authors aim to mitigate or eliminate the bias towards any sensitive groups, such as race or gender, and demonstrate its effectiveness in both regression and classification tasks. This method is highly flexible, requiring no prior knowledge of the original model’s internal structure, and can be extended to a range of different applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to make machine learning models fairer by reducing their bias towards certain groups. The authors suggest that this is important because we often rely on these “black-box” models in decision-making processes, which can have big consequences for people’s lives. They propose an approach called towerDebias (tDB) that can be used with any black-box model to make predictions more fair. This method works by using a property from probability theory and is flexible enough to work with different types of data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Machine learning » Probability » Regression
