对非二进制敏感特征的公平性增强分类方法-如何公平地检测水分系统的泄漏
Janine Strotherm1, Inaam Ashraf1, Barbara Hammer1
1Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
PeerJ. Computer science
|December 9, 2024
概括
水分系统中的人工智能 (AI) 可能是不公平的. 本研究引入了新的公平性定义和框架,以确保在水系统等关键基础设施中公平的AI决策.
科学领域:
- 计算机科学,人工智能,机器学习
- 环境工程,水资源管理
- 技术对社会的影响,人工智能的道德.
背景情况:
- 人工智能驱动的决策越来越多地影响社会基础设施,引发了对公平性的担忧.
- 水分系统 (WDS) 是人工智能应用正在增长的关键基础设施.
- 现有的AI公平度指标在处理复杂的现实场景时往往不足.
研究的目的:
- 在水分系统 (WDSs) 的背景下调查AI公平性.
- 提出适用于WDS和非二进制敏感属性的组公平性的新,通用的定义.
- 开发和评估一个框架,以提高人工智能在WDS中的公平性,特别是泄漏检测.
主要方法:
- 保护群体的定义和WDSs的泛化群体公平性指标.
- 在WDS中分析典型的基于AI的泄漏检测方法,以确保公平性.
- 开发一个可适应各种AI学习方案的整体公平性增强框架.
- 在合成和现实的WDS数据集上对拟议框架的实证评估.
主要成果:
- 用于WDS泄漏检测的典型AI方法表现为不公平.
- 提出的一般化公平性定义被证明是强大的,并与更简单的情况下现有的指标保持一致.
- 公平性增强框架明显提高了人工智能算法在WDS应用中的公平性.
- 对玩具和现实的WDS模型的评估证实了拟议框架的实际实用性.
结论:
- 确保AI应用于WDS等关键基础设施的公平性对于社会公平至关重要.
- 开发的一般化公平性定义和拟议的框架为白色社会主义者提供了公平的AI的重大进步.
- 这项研究为更公正,更可靠的AI驱动的基本水资源管理提供了途径.
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