A distributed fair machine learning framework with private demographic data protection

H Hu, Y Liu, Z Wang, C Lan - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fair machine learning has become a significant research topic with broad societal impact.
However, most fair learning methods require direct access to personal demographic data …

[PDF][PDF] Inference attack and defense on the distributed private fair learning framework

H Hu, C Lan - The AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Fairness and privacy are both significant social norms in machine learning. In (Hu et al
2019), we propose a distributed framework to learn fair prediction models while protecting …

When fairness meets privacy: Fair classification with semi-private sensitive attributes

C Chen, Y Liang, X Xu, S Xie, A Kundu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance in many areas.
However, the concerns that they can be biased against specific demographic groups hinder …

FLEA: Provably Robust Fair Multisource Learning from Unreliable Training Data

E Iofinova, N Konstantinov, CH Lampert - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11732, 2021 - arxiv.org
Fairness-aware learning aims at constructing classifiers that not only make accurate
predictions, but also do not discriminate against specific groups. It is a fast-growing area of …

Group-aware threshold adaptation for fair classification

T Jang, P Shi, X Wang - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
The fairness in machine learning is getting increasing attention, as its applications in
different fields continue to expand and diversify. To mitigate the discriminated model …

Hyper-parameter tuning for fair classification without sensitive attribute access

AK Veldanda, I Brugere, S Dutta, A Mishler… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fair machine learning methods seek to train models that balance model performance across
demographic subgroups defined over sensitive attributes like race and gender. Although …

Improving fairness via federated learning

Y Zeng, H Chen, K Lee - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.15545, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recently, lots of algorithms have been proposed for learning a fair classifier from
decentralized data. However, many theoretical and algorithmic questions remain open. First …

An intersectional definition of fairness

JR Foulds, R Islam, KN Keya… - 2020 IEEE 36th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose differential fairness, a multi-attribute definition of fairness in machine learning
which is informed by intersectionality, a critical lens arising from the humanities literature …

Learning fair models without sensitive attributes: A generative approach

H Zhu, E Dai, H Liu, S Wang - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Most existing fair classifiers rely on sensitive attributes to achieve fairness. However, for
many scenarios, we cannot obtain sensitive attributes due to privacy and legal issues. The …

Costs and benefits of fair representation learning

D McNamara, CS Ong, RC Williamson - Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used to make or support important decisions
about people's lives. This has led to interest in the problem of fair classification, which …