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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Mikhail Yurochkin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Debarghya Mukherjee, Kolkata, IN;
Moulinath Banerjee, Portage, MI (US);
Yuekai Sun, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Sohini Upadhyay, Cambridge, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides techniques for learning Mahalanobis distance similarity metrics from data for individually fair machine learning models. In one aspect, a method for learning a fair Mahalanobis distance similarity metric includes: obtaining data with similarity annotations; selecting, based on the data obtained, a model for learning a Mahalanobis covariance matrix Σ; and learning the Mahalanobis covariance matrix Σ from the data using the model selected, wherein the Mahalanobis covariance matrix Σ fully defines the fair Mahalanobis distance similarity metric.