Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?
Machine Learning
2022-12-07 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Abstract
As machine learning (ML) systems get adopted in more critical areas, it has become increasingly crucial to address the bias that could occur in these systems. Several fairness pre-processing algorithms are available to alleviate implicit biases during model training. These algorithms employ different concepts of fairness, often leading to conflicting strategies with consequential trade-offs between fairness and accuracy. In this work, we evaluate three popular fairness pre-processing algorithms and investigate the potential for combining all algorithms into a more robust pre-processing ensemble. We report on lessons learned that can help practitioners better select fairness algorithms for their models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.02614,
title = {Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?},
author = {Khaled Badran and Pierre-Olivier Côté and Amanda Kolopanis and Rached Bouchoucha and Antonio Collante and Diego Elias Costa and Emad Shihab and Foutse Khomh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02614},
year = {2022}
}