Fair Text Classification via Transferable Representations
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| author | Leteno, Thibaud Perrot, Michael Laclau, Charlotte Gourru, Antoine Gravier, Christophe |
| author_facet | Leteno, Thibaud Perrot, Michael Laclau, Charlotte Gourru, Antoine Gravier, Christophe |
| contents | Group fairness is a central research topic in text classification, where reaching fair treatment between sensitive groups (e.g., women and men) remains an open challenge. We propose an approach that extends the use of the Wasserstein Dependency Measure for learning unbiased neural text classifiers. Given the challenge of distinguishing fair from unfair information in a text encoder, we draw inspiration from adversarial training by inducing independence between representations learned for the target label and those for a sensitive attribute. We further show that Domain Adaptation can be efficiently leveraged to remove the need for access to the sensitive attributes in the dataset we cure. We provide both theoretical and empirical evidence that our approach is well-founded. |
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| spellingShingle | Fair Text Classification via Transferable Representations Leteno, Thibaud Perrot, Michael Laclau, Charlotte Gourru, Antoine Gravier, Christophe Machine Learning Computation and Language Group fairness is a central research topic in text classification, where reaching fair treatment between sensitive groups (e.g., women and men) remains an open challenge. We propose an approach that extends the use of the Wasserstein Dependency Measure for learning unbiased neural text classifiers. Given the challenge of distinguishing fair from unfair information in a text encoder, we draw inspiration from adversarial training by inducing independence between representations learned for the target label and those for a sensitive attribute. We further show that Domain Adaptation can be efficiently leveraged to remove the need for access to the sensitive attributes in the dataset we cure. We provide both theoretical and empirical evidence that our approach is well-founded. |
| title | Fair Text Classification via Transferable Representations |
| topic | Machine Learning Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07691 |