Causal Feature Selection for Responsible Machine Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Moraffah, Raha, Sheth, Paras, Vishnubhatla, Saketh, Liu, Huan
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author Moraffah, Raha
Sheth, Paras
Vishnubhatla, Saketh
Liu, Huan
author_facet Moraffah, Raha
Sheth, Paras
Vishnubhatla, Saketh
Liu, Huan
contents Machine Learning (ML) has become an integral aspect of many real-world applications. As a result, the need for responsible machine learning has emerged, focusing on aligning ML models to ethical and social values, while enhancing their reliability and trustworthiness. Responsible ML involves many issues. This survey addresses four main issues: interpretability, fairness, adversarial robustness, and domain generalization. Feature selection plays a pivotal role in the responsible ML tasks. However, building upon statistical correlations between variables can lead to spurious patterns with biases and compromised performance. This survey focuses on the current study of causal feature selection: what it is and how it can reinforce the four aspects of responsible ML. By identifying features with causal impacts on outcomes and distinguishing causality from correlation, causal feature selection is posited as a unique approach to ensuring ML models to be ethically and socially responsible in high-stakes applications.
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spellingShingle Causal Feature Selection for Responsible Machine Learning
Moraffah, Raha
Sheth, Paras
Vishnubhatla, Saketh
Liu, Huan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning (ML) has become an integral aspect of many real-world applications. As a result, the need for responsible machine learning has emerged, focusing on aligning ML models to ethical and social values, while enhancing their reliability and trustworthiness. Responsible ML involves many issues. This survey addresses four main issues: interpretability, fairness, adversarial robustness, and domain generalization. Feature selection plays a pivotal role in the responsible ML tasks. However, building upon statistical correlations between variables can lead to spurious patterns with biases and compromised performance. This survey focuses on the current study of causal feature selection: what it is and how it can reinforce the four aspects of responsible ML. By identifying features with causal impacts on outcomes and distinguishing causality from correlation, causal feature selection is posited as a unique approach to ensuring ML models to be ethically and socially responsible in high-stakes applications.
title Causal Feature Selection for Responsible Machine Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02696