On the Correlation between Individual Fairness and Predictive Accuracy in Probabilistic Models
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| author | Antonucci, Alessandro Rossetto, Eric Duvnjak, Ivan |
| author_facet | Antonucci, Alessandro Rossetto, Eric Duvnjak, Ivan |
| contents | We investigate individual fairness in generative probabilistic classifiers by analysing the robustness of posterior inferences to perturbations in private features. Building on established results in robustness analysis, we hypothesise a correlation between robustness and predictive accuracy, specifically, instances exhibiting greater robustness are more likely to be classified accurately. We empirically assess this hypothesis using a benchmark of fourteen datasets with fairness concerns, employing Bayesian networks as the underlying generative models. To address the computational complexity associated with robustness analysis over multiple private features with Bayesian networks, we reformulate the problem as a most probable explanation task in an auxiliary Markov random field. Our experiments confirm the hypothesis about the correlation, suggesting novel directions to mitigate the traditional trade-off between fairness and accuracy. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Correlation between Individual Fairness and Predictive Accuracy in Probabilistic Models Antonucci, Alessandro Rossetto, Eric Duvnjak, Ivan Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence We investigate individual fairness in generative probabilistic classifiers by analysing the robustness of posterior inferences to perturbations in private features. Building on established results in robustness analysis, we hypothesise a correlation between robustness and predictive accuracy, specifically, instances exhibiting greater robustness are more likely to be classified accurately. We empirically assess this hypothesis using a benchmark of fourteen datasets with fairness concerns, employing Bayesian networks as the underlying generative models. To address the computational complexity associated with robustness analysis over multiple private features with Bayesian networks, we reformulate the problem as a most probable explanation task in an auxiliary Markov random field. Our experiments confirm the hypothesis about the correlation, suggesting novel directions to mitigate the traditional trade-off between fairness and accuracy. |
| title | On the Correlation between Individual Fairness and Predictive Accuracy in Probabilistic Models |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13165 |