FairNVT: Fair Classification via Noise Injection in Vision Transformers
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arXiv:2604.16780v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents FairNVT, a lightweight debiasing framework for pretrained transformer-based encoders that improves prediction fairness while preserving task performance. FairNVT is motivated by the intuition that reducing sensitive-attribute information in the representation used by the downstream classifier can facilitate fairer predictions. Our approach learns task-relevant and sensitive embeddings via lightweight adapters, applies calibrated Gaussian noise to the sensitive embedding, and fuses it with the task representation. Tog
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- arXiv:2604.16780v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents FairNVT, a lightweight debiasing framework for pretrained transformer-based encoders that improves prediction fairness while preserving task performance.
- FairNVT is motivated by the intuition that reducing sensitive-attribute information in the representation used by the downstream classifier can facilitate fairer predictions.
- Our approach learns task-relevant and sensitive embeddings via lightweight adapters, applies calibrated Gaussian noise to the sensitive embedding, and fuses it with the task representation.
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