Compressed Models Decompress Race Biases: What Quantized Models Forget for Fair Face Recognition

Autor:	Neto, Pedro C., Caldeira, Eduarda, Cardoso, Jaime S., Sequeira, Ana F.
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	With the ever-growing complexity of deep learning models for face recognition, it becomes hard to deploy these systems in real life. Researchers have two options: 1) use smaller models; 2) compress their current models. Since the usage of smaller models might lead to concerning biases, compression gains relevance. However, compressing might be also responsible for an increase in the bias of the final model. We investigate the overall performance, the performance on each ethnicity subgroup and the racial bias of a State-of-the-Art quantization approach when used with synthetic and real data. This analysis provides a few more details on potential benefits of performing quantization with synthetic data, for instance, the reduction of biases on the majority of test scenarios. We tested five distinct architectures and three different training datasets. The models were evaluated on a fourth dataset which was collected to infer and compare the performance of face recognition models on different ethnicity. Comment: Accepted for Oral at BIOSIG 2023
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11840 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv