Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optimized score transformation for fair classification
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Application No.: US16888413Application Date: 2020-05-29
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Publication No.: US11797870B2Publication Date: 2023-10-24
- Inventor: Dennis Wei , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Flavio du Pin Calmon
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation , President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation,President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation,President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk; US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Otterstedt & Kammer PLLC
- Agent Caleb Wilkes
- Main IPC: G06N7/01
- IPC: G06N7/01 ; G06N20/00 ; G06N5/022 ; G06N5/045

Abstract:
Obtain, from an existing machine learning classifier, original probabilistic scores classifying samples taken from two or more groups into two or more classes via supervised machine learning. Associate the original probabilistic scores with a plurality of original Lagrange multipliers. Adjust values of the plurality of original Lagrange multipliers via low-dimensional convex optimization to obtain updated Lagrange multipliers that satisfy fairness constraints as compared to the original Lagrange multipliers. Based on the updated Lagrange multipliers, closed-form transform the original probabilistic scores into transformed probabilistic scores that satisfy the fairness constraints while minimizing loss in utility. The fairness constraints are with respect to the two or more groups.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210374581A1 OPTIMIZED SCORE TRANSFORMATION FOR FAIR CLASSIFICATION Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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