DeepMind Researchers Develop Tools To Visualise ML Unfairness

Machine Learning engineers work around bias or the offsets in a model by drawing insights from the output, gauging the losses, going through tonnes of data and repeating till agreeable results have been obtained. This is a traditional process which takes time but works decently. An alternative to this approach is the Lagrangian approach, a mathematical method to find the local maxima and local minima of a function when provided with equality constraints. This too, comes with its own set of complexities. The unfairness of machine learning algorithms was exposed when they were deployed for manual tasks like hiring, surveillance and other such critical tasks, where the damages can be irreversible.