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Conference Papers Year : 2024

Regression under demographic parity constraints via unlabeled post-processing

Abstract

We address the problem of performing regression while ensuring demographic parity, even without access to sensitive attributes during inference. We present a general-purpose post-processing algorithm that, using accurate estimates of the regression function and a sensitive attribute predictor, generates predictions that meet the demographic parity constraint. Our method involves discretization and stochastic minimization of a smooth convex function. It is suitable for online post-processing and multi-class classification tasks only involving unlabeled data for the post-processing. Unlike prior methods, our approach is fully theory-driven. We require precise control over the gradient norm of the convex function, and thus, we rely on more advanced techniques than standard stochastic gradient descent. Our algorithm is backed by finite-sample analysis and post-processing bounds, with experimental results validating our theoretical findings.
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hal-04654182 , version 1 (19-07-2024)
hal-04654182 , version 2 (08-10-2024)

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  • HAL Id : hal-04654182 , version 2

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Evgenii Chzhen, Mohamed Hebiri, Gayane Taturyan. Regression under demographic parity constraints via unlabeled post-processing. NeurIPS 2024, Dec 2024, Vancouver, Canada. ⟨hal-04654182v2⟩
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