Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
Applying a constraint to an algorithm to ensure one or more definitions of fairness are satisfied. Examples of fairness constraints include:
Post-processing your model's output.
Altering the loss function to incorporate a penalty for violating a fairness metric.
Directly adding a mathematical constraint to an optimization problem.
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A bank's credit team applies a fairness constraint during training so the false negative rate gap across protected groups stays below a set threshold.
A hiring-tech vendor enforces a fairness constraint in its candidate ranking model to bound disparate impact while keeping accuracy reasonable.
A health-tech startup uses a fairness constraint on the equalized odds gap when fine-tuning its triage model across age groups.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License