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Fair Canonical Correlation Analysis

21 Sep 2023NeurIPS 2023 11archive 2025-07-28

This paper investigates fairness and bias in Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), a widely used statistical technique for examining the relationship between two sets of variables. We present a framework that alleviates unfairness by minimizing the correlation disparity error associated with protected attributes. Our approach enables the CCA model to learn global projection matrices from all data points while ensuring that these matrices yield comparable correlation levels to group-specific projection matrices. Experimental evaluation on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrates the efficacy of our method in reducing unfairness without compromising CCA model accuracy. These findings emphasize the importance of considering fairness in CCA applications to real-world problems.

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