arXiv (Cornell University)
Obstructing Classification via Projection
May 2021 • Pantea Haghighatkhah, Wouter Meulemans, Bettina Speckman, Jérôme Urhausen, Kevin Verbeek
Machine learning and data mining techniques are effective tools to classify large amounts of data. But they tend to preserve any inherent bias in the data, for example, with regards to gender or race. Removing such bias from data or the learned representations is quite challenging. In this paper we study a geometric problem which models a possible approach for bias removal. Our input is a set of points P in Euclidean space R^d and each point is labeled with k binary-valued properties. A priori we assume that it is…