Learning Fair Representations via Rate-Distortion Maximization

AbstractText representations learned by machine learning models often encode undesirable demographic information of the user. Predictive models based on these representations can rely on such information, resulting in biased decisions. We present a novel debiasing technique, Fairness...

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Main Authors: Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Snigdha Chaturvedi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2022-01-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00512/113492/Learning-Fair-Representations-via-Rate-Distortion