v0.5.0

AIF360 v0.5.0 Release Notes

Highlights

• New algorithms:
  • FairAdapt
• New metrics:
  • MDSS
  • class_imbalance, kl_divergence, conditional_demographic_disparity
  • intersection and one_vs_rest meta-metrics
• sklearn-compatible ports:
  • differential fairness metrics
  • MEPS, COMPAS violent
  • RejectOptionClassification, LearnedFairRepresentations

New Features/Improvements

• Multidimensional subset scanning (MDSS) for bias in classifiers by @Viktour19 in #238
• Update component.yaml to kfp v2 sdk by @yhwang in #259
• Fairadapt inclusion in AIF360 by @dplecko in #257
• Added a tutorial for advertising data by @barvek in #310
• More sklearn-compatible algorithms by @hoffmansc in #318
• Dataset Improvements by @hoffmansc in #278
  • array of sample-wise protected attributes may now be passed in prot_attr instead of an index label
• Method of the month (July) by @hoffmansc in #324
• sklearn-compat additions by @mnagired in #322
  • add predict_proba to RejectOptionClassifier
• More sklearn-compatible metrics by @hoffmansc in #290
  • smoothed_edf, df_bias_amplification
  • class_imbalance, kl_divergence, conditional_demographic_disparity
  • intersection, one_vs_rest

Backwards-Incompatible Changes

• Add detectors api by @Adebayo-Oshingbesan in #305
  • version of bias_scan in aif360.metrics to be deprecated next release

Fixes

• Fixed computation of coefficient of variation in classification_metrics by @plankington in #288
• Fix exponential gradient reduction without protected attribute (#267) by @jdnklau in #268
• Remove caches due to excessive memory use by @Adebayo-Oshingbesan in #317
• fix rpy2 crash bug by @hoffmansc in #313
• Fix pipelining bug in fairlearn algorithms by @hoffmansc in #323
• Optional tempeh, conditional imports by @DanielRyszkaIBM in #338
• Restricting AdversarialDebiasing's trainable variables to current scope by @mfeffer in #255
• Increasing max_iter to 1000 for LogisticRegression used in PrejudiceRemover by @mfeffer in #254

New Contributors

• @Viktour19 made their first contribution in #238
• @jdnklau made their first contribution in #268
• @yhwang made their first contribution in #259
• @dplecko made their first contribution in #257
• @plankington made their first contribution in #288
• @Adebayo-Oshingbesan made their first contribution in #305
• @barvek made their first contribution in #310
• @milevavantuyl made their first contribution in #309
• @josue-rodriguez made their first contribution in #315
• @DanielRyszkaIBM made their first contribution in #338
• @mnagired made their first contribution in #322
• @mfeffer made their first contribution in #255

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0