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Differentially Private Fair Binary Classifications

Machine Learning 2024-05-21 v2 Cryptography and Security Information Theory math.IT Machine Learning

Abstract

In this work, we investigate binary classification under the constraints of both differential privacy and fairness. We first propose an algorithm based on the decoupling technique for learning a classifier with only fairness guarantee. This algorithm takes in classifiers trained on different demographic groups and generates a single classifier satisfying statistical parity. We then refine this algorithm to incorporate differential privacy. The performance of the final algorithm is rigorously examined in terms of privacy, fairness, and utility guarantees. Empirical evaluations conducted on the Adult and Credit Card datasets illustrate that our algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of fairness guarantees, while maintaining the same level of privacy and utility.

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@article{arxiv.2402.15603,
  title  = {Differentially Private Fair Binary Classifications},
  author = {Hrad Ghoukasian and Shahab Asoodeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.15603},
  year   = {2024}
}