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Poster

Efficient fair PCA for fair representation learning

Matthäus Kleindessner · Michele Donini · Chris Russell · Muhammad Bilal Zafar

Auditorium 1 Foyer 153

Abstract:

We revisit the problem of fair principal component analysis (PCA), where the goal is to learn the best low-rank linear approximation of the data that obfuscates demographic information. We propose a conceptually simple approach that allows for an analytic solution similar to standard PCA and can be kernelized. Our methods have the same complexity as standard PCA, or kernel PCA, and run much faster than existing methods for fair PCA based on semidefinite programming or manifold optimization, while achieving similar results.

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