fairret: a Framework for Differentiable Fairness Regularization Terms
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| author | Buyl, Maarten Defrance, MaryBeth De Bie, Tijl |
| author_facet | Buyl, Maarten Defrance, MaryBeth De Bie, Tijl |
| contents | Current fairness toolkits in machine learning only admit a limited range of fairness definitions and have seen little integration with automatic differentiation libraries, despite the central role these libraries play in modern machine learning pipelines.
We introduce a framework of fairness regularization terms (fairrets) which quantify bias as modular, flexible objectives that are easily integrated in automatic differentiation pipelines. By employing a general definition of fairness in terms of linear-fractional statistics, a wide class of fairrets can be computed efficiently. Experiments show the behavior of their gradients and their utility in enforcing fairness with minimal loss of predictive power compared to baselines. Our contribution includes a PyTorch implementation of the fairret framework. |
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| spellingShingle | fairret: a Framework for Differentiable Fairness Regularization Terms Buyl, Maarten Defrance, MaryBeth De Bie, Tijl Machine Learning Current fairness toolkits in machine learning only admit a limited range of fairness definitions and have seen little integration with automatic differentiation libraries, despite the central role these libraries play in modern machine learning pipelines. We introduce a framework of fairness regularization terms (fairrets) which quantify bias as modular, flexible objectives that are easily integrated in automatic differentiation pipelines. By employing a general definition of fairness in terms of linear-fractional statistics, a wide class of fairrets can be computed efficiently. Experiments show the behavior of their gradients and their utility in enforcing fairness with minimal loss of predictive power compared to baselines. Our contribution includes a PyTorch implementation of the fairret framework. |
| title | fairret: a Framework for Differentiable Fairness Regularization Terms |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17256 |