Improving fairness generalization through a sample-robust optimization method

Ferry, Julien; Aïvodji, Ulrich; Gambs, Sébastien; Huguet, Marie‐José; Siala, Mohamed

doi:10.1007/s10994-022-06191-y

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“…IML allows a researcher to benefit from advances in machine learning research and still explore the properties of the model afterwards to increase the interpretability of the model. Example applications include designing regulatorily compliant, fair [16], transparent, and trustworthy prediction models [17]. Another area of IML focuses on the interpretation of the effects of covariates on prediction [18][19][20].…”

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Interaction Difference Hypothesis Test for Prediction Models

Welchowski,

Edelmann

2024

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Machine learning research focuses on the improvement of prediction performance. Progress was made with black-box models that flexibly adapt to the given data. However, due to their increased complexity, black-box models are more difficult to interpret. To address this issue, techniques for interpretable machine learning have been developed, yet there is still a lack of methods to reliably identify interaction effects between predictors under uncertainty. In this work, we present a model-agnostic hypothesis test for the identification of interaction effects in black-box machine learning models. The test statistic is based on the difference between the variance of the estimated prediction function and a version of the estimated prediction function without interaction effects derived via partial dependence functions. The properties of the proposed hypothesis test were explored in simulations of linear and nonlinear models. The proposed hypothesis test can be applied to any black-box prediction model, and the null hypothesis of the test can be flexibly specified according to the research question of interest. Furthermore, the test is computationally fast to apply, as the null distribution does not require the resampling or refitting of black-box prediction models.

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