isf.md

Name of proposed project:

Intersectional Fairness

Requested project maturity level:

Sandbox

Project Description:

Intersectional Fairness (ISF) is a bias mitigation technology for intersectional bias caused by combinations of multiple protected attributes.
ISF adopts existing approaches that mitigate bias caused by a single protected attribute to make a machine learning model fair from intersectional bias. Approaches applicable to ISF are pre-, in-, and post-processing. For now, ISF supports Adversarial Debiasing, Equalized Odds, Massaging, and Reject Option Classification.

More information in GitHub: https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf .

Statement on alignment with LF AI’s mission:

We would like to build an opensource community that encourages collaboration and contribution, develop an opensource ecology, and contribute its value to AI and Data opensource community. We believe that such a goal is in line with LF AI&Data's mission .

Possible collaboration opportunities with current LF AI hosted projects: (https://lfai.foundation/projects/)

AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) is the best collaboration candidate since this project develops the de-fact standard toolkit “AI Fairness 360” to help detect and mitigate bias in machine learning models throughout the AI application lifecycle.

By incorporating ISF technology in AIF360, more researchers and real applicators can know ISF so that they can use this new technology with less labor with their regular procedures.

License name, version, and URL to license text

Apache License 2.0

https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/blob/main/LICENSE

Source control

GitHub - https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf.git

Does the project sits in its own GH organization?

Yes．

Do you have the GH DCO app active in the repos?

Yes

Issue tracker (GitHub, JIRA, etc)

GitHub Issues: https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/issues

Collaboration tools

All collaborations are done via Github issues.

External dependencies including licenses (name and version) of those dependencies.

• Apache-2.0 licenses
  • AI Fairness 360
• MIT License
  • Equalized Odds and Calibration
  • Themis ML

Initial committers (name, email, organization) and how long have they been working on project?

Name	Email	Organization	Time
Kenji Kobayashi	[email protected]	Fujitsu	2 years
Kenichiroh Narita	[email protected]	Fujitsu	2 years
Hidekazu Takahashi	[email protected]	Fujitsu	2 years
Takao Mohri	[email protected]	Fujitsu	2 years

Have the project defined the roles of contributor, committer, maintainer, etc.? Please document it in MAINTAINERS.md.

Partially yes. For contributor: https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md For maintainer: https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md

Total number of contributors to the project including their affiliations.

5 in total; all from Fujitsu.

https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/graphs/contributors

Does the project have a release methodology? Please document it in RELEASES.md.

Yes. We use https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/releases .

Does the project have a code of conduct?

https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Did the project achieve any of the CII best practices badges? A different badge is required depending on the requested incubation level.

No.

Do you have any specific infrastructure requests needed as part of hosting the project in the LF AI?

No.

Project website - Do you have a web site? If no, did you reserve a domain, and would like you to have a website created?

We have no web site and reserve no domain. We would like to have a website created.

Project governance - Do you have a working governance model for the project? Please provide URL to where it is documented, typically GOVERNANCE.md.

All pull requests needs to be approved by at least two maintainers to be merged. See maintainers guide: https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md

We also have our contributions guideline: https://github.com/intersectional-fairness/isf/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Social media accounts - Do you have any Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook/etc. project accounts? Please provide pointers.

None

Existing sponsorship (e.g., whether any organization has provided funding or other support to date, and a description of that support), if any.

Fujitsu Limited