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Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Demography

Ibe Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, Ekaterina Mitrofanova

Published 2022-02-02Version 1

The paper is devoted to the study of the model fairness and process fairness of the Russian demographic dataset by making predictions of divorce of the 1st marriage, religiosity, 1st employment and completion of education. Our goal was to make classifiers more equitable by reducing their reliance on sensitive features while increasing or at least maintaining their accuracy. We took inspiration from "dropout" techniques in neural-based approaches and suggested a model that uses "feature drop-out" to address process fairness. To evaluate a classifier's fairness and decide the sensitive features to eliminate, we used "LIME Explanations". This results in a pool of classifiers due to feature dropout whose ensemble has been shown to be less reliant on sensitive features and to have improved or no effect on accuracy. Our empirical study was performed on four families of classifiers (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Bagging, and Adaboost) and carried out on real-life dataset (Russian demographic data derived from Generations and Gender Survey), and it showed that all of the models became less dependent on sensitive features (such as gender, breakup of the 1st partnership, 1st partnership, etc.) and showed improvements or no impact on accuracy

Comments: This is an empirical replication study but with other demographic data. The theory and method description is heavily based on the arXiv:2006.10531
Categories: cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CY
Subjects: 68T05, I.2.6, J.4, H.2.8
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