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Trade-off between Payoff and Model Rewards in Shapley-Fair Collaborative Machine Learning
Quoc Phong Nguyen · Bryan Kian Hsiang Low · Patrick Jaillet

Wed Nov 30 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #531
in Poster Session 3 »

This paper investigates the problem of fairly trading off between payoff and model rewards in collaborative machine learning (ML) where parties aggregate their datasets together to obtain improved ML models over that of each party. Supposing parties can afford the optimal model trained on the aggregated dataset, we propose an allocation scheme that distributes the payoff fairly. Notably, the same scheme can be derived from two different approaches based on (a) desirable properties of the parties' payoffs or (b) that of the underlying payoff flows from one party to another. While the former is conceptually simpler, the latter can be used to handle the practical constraint on the budgets of parties. In particular, we propose desirable properties for achieving a fair adjustment of the payoff flows that can trade off between the model reward's performance and the payoff reward. We empirically demonstrate that our proposed scheme is a sensible solution in several scenarios of collaborative ML with different budget constraints.

Keywords: Shapley value · collaborative machine learning · model reward · payoff reward
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Author Information

Quoc Phong Nguyen (National University of Singapore)
Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (National University of Singapore)
Patrick Jaillet (MIT)

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