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PROMIS: A Post-Processing Framework for Mitigating Spatial Bias

Authors: Kyriakopoulos, Dimitris; Sacharidis, Dimitris; Giannopoulos, Giorgos; Gunopulos, Dimitrios; Dalamagas, Theodore;

PROMIS: A Post-Processing Framework for Mitigating Spatial Bias

Abstract

The rapid integration of machine learning (ML) into critical decisionmaking systems has heightened concerns over fairness, particularly regarding spatial biases often tied to sensitive socioeconomic factors. In response, we propose a model-agnostic post-processing method for spatial bias mitigation that operates without access to the original training data. Our approach formulates an optimization problem that minimizes a fairness measure robust to gerrymandering, subject to a constraint specifying the allowable deviation from the original model's performance ensuring spatial fairness while preserving accuracy. This measure has a 0–1 scale, offering an intuitive way to quantify spatial bias. Comprehensive evaluations on real-world datasets show that our framework effectively reduces spatial bias and achieves fairer outcomes with minimal performance loss, outperforming other state-of-the-art post-processing methods. This work advances spatial fairness methodologies, offering practitioners an efficient, interpretable, and adaptable post-processing solution to mitigate location-based discrimination in ML applications.

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