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Understanding Gender and Racial Disparities in Image Recognition Models

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-07-21 v1

Abstract

Large scale image classification models trained on top of popular datasets such as Imagenet have shown to have a distributional skew which leads to disparities in prediction accuracies across different subsections of population demographics. A lot of approaches have been made to solve for this distributional skew using methods that alter the model pre, post and during training. We investigate one such approach - which uses a multi-label softmax loss with cross-entropy as the loss function instead of a binary cross-entropy on a multi-label classification problem on the Inclusive Images dataset which is a subset of the OpenImages V6 dataset. We use the MR2 dataset, which contains images of people with self-identified gender and race attributes to evaluate the fairness in the model outcomes and try to interpret the mistakes by looking at model activations and suggest possible fixes.

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@article{arxiv.2107.09211,
  title  = {Understanding Gender and Racial Disparities in Image Recognition Models},
  author = {Rohan Mahadev and Anindya Chakravarti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09211},
  year   = {2021}
}