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Fairness GAN: Generating datasets with fairness properties using a generative adversarial network

Sattigeri, P., Hoffman, S. C., Chenthamarakshan, V., Varshney, K. R.·2019·IBM Journal of Research and Development

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We introduce the Fairness GAN (generative adversarial network), an approach for generating a dataset that is plausibly similar to a given multimedia dataset, but is more fair with respect to protected attributes in decision making. We propose a novel auxiliary classifier GAN that strives for demographic parity or equality of opportunity and show empirical results on several datasets, including the CelebFaces Attributes (CelebA) dataset, the Quick, Draw! dataset, and a dataset of soccer player images and the offenses for which they were called. The proposed formulation is well suited to absorbing unlabeled data; we leverage this to augment the soccer dataset with the much larger CelebA dataset. The methodology tends to improve demographic parity and equality of opportunity while generating plausible images.

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  • [256] illustrate the use of a GAN with fairness constraints to produce unbiased image datasets.

    “[256] illustrate this by using a GAN with fairness constraints to produce łunbiasedž image datasets and [299] have evidenced similar results for structured data.”

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Authors
Sattigeri, P., Hoffman, S. C., Chenthamarakshan, V., & Varshney, K. R.
Venue
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Publisher
IBM
Published
2019-07-01
Volume
63
Issue
4/5
Pages
3:1-3:9
ISSN
0018-8646 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2980688251
Cited by
134
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 3
FWCI
26.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IBM Journal of Research and Development (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
Keywords
generative adversarial networks, algorithmic fairness, synthetic data generation, demographic parity, equal opportunities, protected characteristics, auxiliary classifier, image generation, CelebA, data augmentation, unlabeled data

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