A Fair Loss Function for Network Pruning

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Auteurs principaux: Meyer, Robbie, Wong, Alexander
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author Meyer, Robbie
Wong, Alexander
author_facet Meyer, Robbie
Wong, Alexander
contents Model pruning can enable the deployment of neural networks in environments with resource constraints. While pruning may have a small effect on the overall performance of the model, it can exacerbate existing biases into the model such that subsets of samples see significantly degraded performance. In this paper, we introduce the performance weighted loss function, a simple modified cross-entropy loss function that can be used to limit the introduction of biases during pruning. Experiments using the CelebA, Fitzpatrick17k and CIFAR-10 datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is a simple and effective tool that can enable existing pruning methods to be used in fairness sensitive contexts. Code used to produce all experiments contained in this paper can be found at https://github.com/robbiemeyer/pw_loss_pruning.
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spellingShingle A Fair Loss Function for Network Pruning
Meyer, Robbie
Wong, Alexander
Machine Learning
Computers and Society
Model pruning can enable the deployment of neural networks in environments with resource constraints. While pruning may have a small effect on the overall performance of the model, it can exacerbate existing biases into the model such that subsets of samples see significantly degraded performance. In this paper, we introduce the performance weighted loss function, a simple modified cross-entropy loss function that can be used to limit the introduction of biases during pruning. Experiments using the CelebA, Fitzpatrick17k and CIFAR-10 datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is a simple and effective tool that can enable existing pruning methods to be used in fairness sensitive contexts. Code used to produce all experiments contained in this paper can be found at https://github.com/robbiemeyer/pw_loss_pruning.
title A Fair Loss Function for Network Pruning
topic Machine Learning
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10285