A General Approach to Fairness with Optimal Transport

Authors

  • Chiappa Silvia DeepMind London
  • Jiang Ray DeepMind London
  • Stepleton Tom DeepMind London
  • Pacchiano Aldo UC Berkeley
  • Jiang Heinrich Google Research
  • Aslanides John DeepMind London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.5771

Abstract

We propose a general approach to fairness based on transporting distributions corresponding to different sensitive attributes to a common distribution. We use optimal transport theory to derive target distributions and methods that allow us to achieve fairness with minimal changes to the unfair model. Our approach is applicable to both classification and regression problems, can enforce different notions of fairness, and enable us to achieve a Pareto-optimal trade-off between accuracy and fairness. We demonstrate that it outperforms previous approaches in several benchmark fairness datasets.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Silvia, C., Ray, J., Tom, S., Aldo, P., Heinrich, J., & John, A. (2020). A General Approach to Fairness with Optimal Transport. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(04), 3633-3640. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.5771

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AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning