Fair Semi-supervised Representation Learning for Tabular Data Classification
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Abstract:
Semi-supervised learning has shown its potential in many real-world applications where only few labeled examples are available. However, when some fairness constraints need to be satisfied, semisupervised classification models often struggle as they are required to cope with the lack of sufficient information for predicting the target variable while forgetting its relationships with any sensitive and potentially discriminatory attribute. To address this issue, we propose a fair semi-supervised representation learning architecture that leads to fair and accurate classification results even in very challenging scenarios with few labeled (but biased) instances. We show experimentally that our model can be easily adopted in very general settings, as the learned representations may be employed to train any supervised classifier. Moreover, when applied to several real-world datasets, our method is competitive with state-of-the-art fair semi-supervised approaches.
Tipologia CRIS:
04A-Conference paper in volume
Keywords:
semi-supervised autoencoder, fairness, deep neural networks
Elenco autori:
Shuyi Yang, Mattia Cerrato, Dino Ienco, Ruggero G. Pensa, Roberto Esposito
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Titolo del libro:
Proceedings of the 31st Symposium of Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2023)
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