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Autori principali: Zarlenga, Mateo Espinosa, Sankaranarayanan, Swami, Andrews, Jerone T. A., Shams, Zohreh, Jamnik, Mateja, Xiang, Alice
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17691
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author Zarlenga, Mateo Espinosa
Sankaranarayanan, Swami
Andrews, Jerone T. A.
Shams, Zohreh
Jamnik, Mateja
Xiang, Alice
author_facet Zarlenga, Mateo Espinosa
Sankaranarayanan, Swami
Andrews, Jerone T. A.
Shams, Zohreh
Jamnik, Mateja
Xiang, Alice
contents Deep neural networks trained via empirical risk minimisation often exhibit significant performance disparities across groups, particularly when group and task labels are spuriously correlated (e.g., "grassy background" and "cows"). Existing bias mitigation methods that aim to address this issue often either rely on group labels for training or validation, or require an extensive hyperparameter search. Such data and computational requirements hinder the practical deployment of these methods, especially when datasets are too large to be group-annotated, computational resources are limited, and models are trained through already complex pipelines. In this paper, we propose Targeted Augmentations for Bias Mitigation (TAB), a simple hyperparameter-free framework that leverages the entire training history of a helper model to identify spurious samples, and generate a group-balanced training set from which a robust model can be trained. We show that TAB improves worst-group performance without any group information or model selection, outperforming existing methods while maintaining overall accuracy.
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spellingShingle Efficient Bias Mitigation Without Privileged Information
Zarlenga, Mateo Espinosa
Sankaranarayanan, Swami
Andrews, Jerone T. A.
Shams, Zohreh
Jamnik, Mateja
Xiang, Alice
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep neural networks trained via empirical risk minimisation often exhibit significant performance disparities across groups, particularly when group and task labels are spuriously correlated (e.g., "grassy background" and "cows"). Existing bias mitigation methods that aim to address this issue often either rely on group labels for training or validation, or require an extensive hyperparameter search. Such data and computational requirements hinder the practical deployment of these methods, especially when datasets are too large to be group-annotated, computational resources are limited, and models are trained through already complex pipelines. In this paper, we propose Targeted Augmentations for Bias Mitigation (TAB), a simple hyperparameter-free framework that leverages the entire training history of a helper model to identify spurious samples, and generate a group-balanced training set from which a robust model can be trained. We show that TAB improves worst-group performance without any group information or model selection, outperforming existing methods while maintaining overall accuracy.
title Efficient Bias Mitigation Without Privileged Information
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17691