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Fair Generative Modeling via Weak Supervision
Kristy Choi · Aditya Grover · Trisha Singh · Rui Shu · Stefano Ermon

Tue Jul 14 07:00 AM -- 07:45 AM & Tue Jul 14 08:00 PM -- 08:45 PM (PDT) @
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Real-world datasets are often biased with respect to key demographic factors such as race and gender. Due to the latent nature of the underlying factors, detecting and mitigating bias is especially challenging for unsupervised machine learning. We present a weakly supervised algorithm for overcoming dataset bias for deep generative models. Our approach requires access to an additional small, unlabeled reference dataset as the supervision signal, thus sidestepping the need for explicit labels on the underlying bias factors. Using this supplementary dataset, we detect the bias in existing datasets via a density ratio technique and learn generative models which efficiently achieve the twin goals of: 1) data efficiency by using training examples from both biased and reference datasets for learning; and 2) data generation close in distribution to the reference dataset at test time. Empirically, we demonstrate the efficacy of our approach which reduces bias w.r.t. latent factors by an average of up to 34.6% over baselines for comparable image generation using generative adversarial networks.

Keywords: Deep Generative Models · Fairness, Equity and Justice · Deep Learning - Generative Models and Autoencoders

Author Information

Kristy Choi (Stanford University)
Aditya Grover (Stanford University)
Trisha Singh (Stanford University)
Rui Shu (Stanford University)
Stefano Ermon (Stanford University)

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