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Learning Adversarially Fair and Transferable Representations
David Madras · Elliot Creager · Toniann Pitassi · Richard Zemel

Fri Jul 13 02:00 AM -- 02:20 AM (PDT) @ A3
in Transfer and Multi-Task Learning 3 »

In this paper, we advocate for representation learning as the key to mitigating unfair prediction outcomes downstream. Motivated by a scenario where learned representations are used by third parties with unknown objectives, we propose and explore adversarial representation learning as a natural method of ensuring those parties act fairly. We connect group fairness (demographic parity, equalized odds, and equal opportunity) to different adversarial objectives. Through worst-case theoretical guarantees and experimental validation, we show that the choice of this objective is crucial to fair prediction. Furthermore, we present the first in-depth experimental demonstration of fair transfer learning and demonstrate empirically that our learned representations admit fair predictions on new tasks while maintaining utility, an essential goal of fair representation learning.

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David Madras (University of Toronto)
Elliot Creager (University of Toronto)
Toniann Pitassi (University of Toronto)
Richard Zemel (Vector Institute)

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