@inproceedings{2d1123e20dc34f1dafc8aadf7c549d57,
title = "A non-discriminatory approach to ethical deep learning",
abstract = "Artificial neural networks perform state-of-the-art in an ever-growing number of tasks, nowadays they are used to solve an incredibly large variety of tasks. However, typical training strategies do not take into account lawful, ethical and discriminatory potential issues the trained ANN models could incur in. In this work we propose NDR, a non-discriminatory regularization strategy to prevent the ANN model to solve the target task using some discriminatory features like, for example, the ethnicity in an image classification task for human faces. In particular, a part of the ANN model is trained to hide the discriminatory information such that the rest of the network focuses in learning the given learning task. Our experiments show that NDR can be exploited to achieve non-discriminatory models with both minimal computational overhead and performance loss.",
keywords = "Deep learning, Discriminatory features, Edge computing, Ethical learning, Neural networks, Regularization",
author = "Enzo Tartaglione and Marco Grangetto",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.; 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020 ; Conference date: 29-12-2020 Through 01-01-2021",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00126",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "943--950",
editor = "Guojun Wang and Ryan Ko and Bhuiyan, \{Md Zakirul Alam\} and Yi Pan",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020",
}