Hierarchical VampPrior Variational Fair Auto-Encoder

06/26/2018
by   Philip Botros, et al.
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Decision making is a process that is extremely prone to different biases. In this paper we consider learning fair representation that aim at removing nuisance (sensitive) information from the decision process. For this purpose, we propose to use deep generative modeling and adapt a hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder to learn fair representations. Moreover, we utilize the mutual information as a useful regularizer for enforcing fairness of a representation. In experiments on two benchmark datasets and two scenarios where the sensitive variables are fully and partially observable, we show that the proposed approach either outperforms or performs on par with the current best model.

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