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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Fairness-aware learning aims at constructing classifiers that not only make
    accurate predictions, but also do not discriminate against specific groups. It
    is a fast-growing area of\r\nmachine learning with far-reaching societal impact.
    However, existing fair learning methods\r\nare vulnerable to accidental or malicious
    artifacts in the training data, which can cause\r\nthem to unknowingly produce
    unfair classifiers. In this work we address the problem of\r\nfair learning from
    unreliable training data in the robust multisource setting, where the\r\navailable
    training data comes from multiple sources, a fraction of which might not be representative
    of the true data distribution. We introduce FLEA, a filtering-based algorithm\r\nthat
    identifies and suppresses those data sources that would have a negative impact
    on\r\nfairness or accuracy if they were used for training. As such, FLEA is not
    a replacement of\r\nprior fairness-aware learning methods but rather an augmentation
    that makes any of them\r\nrobust against unreliable training data. We show the
    effectiveness of our approach by a\r\ndiverse range of experiments on multiple
    datasets. Additionally, we prove formally that\r\n–given enough data– FLEA protects
    the learner against corruptions as long as the fraction of\r\naffected data sources
    is less than half. Our source code and documentation are available at\r\nhttps://github.com/ISTAustria-CVML/FLEA."
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: ScienComp
acknowledgement: 'The authors would like to thank Bernd Prach, Elias Frantar, Alexandra
  Peste, Mahdi Nikdan, and Peter Súkeník for their helpful feedback. This research
  was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of IST Austria through resources
  provided by Scientific Computing (SciComp). This publication was made possible by
  an ETH AI Center postdoctoral fellowship granted to Nikola Konstantinov. Eugenia
  Iofinova was supported in part by the FWF DK VGSCO, grant agreement number W1260-N35. '
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article_type: original
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Eugenia B
  full_name: Iofinova, Eugenia B
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  last_name: Iofinova
  orcid: 0000-0002-7778-3221
- first_name: Nikola H
  full_name: Konstantinov, Nikola H
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  last_name: Konstantinov
- first_name: Christoph
  full_name: Lampert, Christoph
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  last_name: Lampert
  orcid: 0000-0001-8622-7887
citation:
  ama: 'Iofinova EB, Konstantinov NH, Lampert C. FLEA: Provably robust fair multisource
    learning from unreliable training data. <i>Transactions on Machine Learning Research</i>.
    2022.'
  apa: 'Iofinova, E. B., Konstantinov, N. H., &#38; Lampert, C. (2022). FLEA: Provably
    robust fair multisource learning from unreliable training data. <i>Transactions
    on Machine Learning Research</i>. ML Research Press.'
  chicago: 'Iofinova, Eugenia B, Nikola H Konstantinov, and Christoph Lampert. “FLEA:
    Provably Robust Fair Multisource Learning from Unreliable Training Data.” <i>Transactions
    on Machine Learning Research</i>. ML Research Press, 2022.'
  ieee: 'E. B. Iofinova, N. H. Konstantinov, and C. Lampert, “FLEA: Provably robust
    fair multisource learning from unreliable training data,” <i>Transactions on Machine
    Learning Research</i>. ML Research Press, 2022.'
  ista: 'Iofinova EB, Konstantinov NH, Lampert C. 2022. FLEA: Provably robust fair
    multisource learning from unreliable training data. Transactions on Machine Learning
    Research.'
  mla: 'Iofinova, Eugenia B., et al. “FLEA: Provably Robust Fair Multisource Learning
    from Unreliable Training Data.” <i>Transactions on Machine Learning Research</i>,
    ML Research Press, 2022.'
  short: E.B. Iofinova, N.H. Konstantinov, C. Lampert, Transactions on Machine Learning
    Research (2022).
date_created: 2023-02-02T20:29:57Z
date_published: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:30:54Z
day: '22'
ddc:
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department:
- _id: ChLa
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2106.11732'
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  url: https://openreview.net/forum?id=XsPopigZXV
month: '12'
oa: 1
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project:
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  grant_number: ' W1260-N35'
  name: Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization
publication: Transactions on Machine Learning Research
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2835-8856
publication_status: published
publisher: ML Research Press
quality_controlled: '1'
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title: 'FLEA: Provably robust fair multisource learning from unreliable training data'
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