106 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Decision Trees (DTs) and Random Forests (RFs) are popular models in Machine Learning (ML) thanks to their interpretability and efficiency to solve real-world problems. However, DTs may sometimes learn rules that treat different groups of people unfairly, by paying attention to sensitive features like for example gender, age, income, language, etc. Even if several solutions have been proposed to reduce the unfairness for different ML algorithms, few of them apply to DTs. This work aims to transpose a successful method proposed by Zafar et al. [1] to reduce the unfairness in boundary based ML models to DTs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationESANN 2021 Proceedings - 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
Pages375-380
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9782875870827
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

NameESANN 2021 Proceedings - 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Boundary-Based Fairness Constraints in Decision Trees and Random Forests'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this