2017

Discriminatory Transfer

Lan, Chao, Huan, Jun

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We observe standard transfer learning can improve prediction accuracies of target tasks at the cost of lowering their prediction fairness -- a phenomenon we named discriminatory transfer.

  • We examine prediction fairness of a standard hypothesis transfer algorithm and a standard multi-task learning algorithm, and show they both suffer discriminatory transfer on the real-world Communities and Crime data set.
  • The presented case study introduces an interaction between fairness and transfer learning, as an extension of existing fairness studies that focus on single task learning.

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