# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. # Licensed under the MIT License. PREDICTOR_OR_ESTIMATOR_REQUIRED_ERROR_MESSAGE = "One of 'unconstrained_predictor' and " \ "'estimator' need to be passed." EITHER_PREDICTOR_OR_ESTIMATOR_ERROR_MESSAGE = "Only one of 'unconstrained_predictor' and " \ "'estimator' can be passed." MISSING_FIT_PREDICT_ERROR_MESSAGE = "The model does not have callable 'fit' or 'predict' methods." MISSING_PREDICT_ERROR_MESSAGE = "The predictor does not have a callable 'predict' method." class PostProcessing: """Abstract base class for postprocessing approaches for disparity mitigation. :param unconstrained_predictor: A predictor with a :code:`predict(X)` method that has already been trained on the training data; the predictor will subsequently be used in the mitigator for unconstrained predictions; can only be specified if `estimator` is `None` :type unconstrainted_predictor: predictor :param estimator: An estimator implementing :code:`fit(X, y)` and :code:`predict(X)` methods that will be trained on the training data and subsequently used in the mitigator for unconstrained predictions; can only be specified if `unconstrainted_predictor` is `None` :type estimator: estimator :param constraints: the parity constraints to be enforced represented as a string :type constraints: str """ def __init__(self, *, unconstrained_predictor=None, estimator=None, constraints=None): if unconstrained_predictor and estimator: raise ValueError(EITHER_PREDICTOR_OR_ESTIMATOR_ERROR_MESSAGE) elif unconstrained_predictor: self._unconstrained_predictor = unconstrained_predictor self._estimator = None self._validate_predictor() elif estimator: self._unconstrained_predictor = None self._estimator = estimator self._validate_estimator() else: raise ValueError(PREDICTOR_OR_ESTIMATOR_REQUIRED_ERROR_MESSAGE) def fit(self, X, y, *, sensitive_features, **kwargs): """Fits the model. The fit is based on training features and labels, sensitive features, as well as the fairness-unaware predictor or estimator. If an estimator was passed in the constructor this fit method will call :code:`fit(X, y, **kwargs)` on said estimator. :param X: Feature matrix :type X: numpy.ndarray or pandas.DataFrame :param y: Label vector :type y: numpy.ndarray, pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series, or list :param sensitive_features: Sensitive features to identify groups by, currently allows only a single column :type sensitive_features: currently 1D array as numpy.ndarray, list, pandas.DataFrame, or pandas.Series """ raise NotImplementedError(self.fit.__name__ + " is not implemented") def predict(self, X, *, sensitive_features): """Predict label for each sample in `X` while taking into account sensitive features. :param X: Feature matrix :type X: numpy.ndarray or pandas.DataFrame :param sensitive_features: Sensitive features to identify groups by, currently allows only a single column :type sensitive_features: Currently 1D array as numpy.ndarray, list, pandas.DataFrame, or pandas.Series :return: predictions in numpy.ndarray """ raise NotImplementedError(self.predict.__name__ + " is not implemented") def _pmf_predict(self, X, *, sensitive_features): """Probabilistic mass function. :param X: Feature matrix :type X: numpy.ndarray or pandas.DataFrame :param sensitive_features: Sensitive features to identify groups by, currently allows only a single column :type sensitive_features: Currently 1D array as numpy.ndarray, list, pandas.DataFrame, or pandas.Series :return: array of tuples with probabilities for predicting 0 or 1, respectively. The sum of the two numbers in each tuple needs to add up to 1. :rtype: numpy.ndarray """ raise NotImplementedError(self._pmf_predict.__name__ + " is not implemented") def _validate_predictor(self): """Validate that the _unconstrained_predictor member has a predict function.""" predict_function = getattr(self._unconstrained_predictor, "predict", None) if not predict_function or not callable(predict_function): raise ValueError(MISSING_PREDICT_ERROR_MESSAGE) def _validate_estimator(self): """Validate that the `_estimator` member has both a fit and a predict function.""" fit_function = getattr(self._estimator, "fit", None) predict_function = getattr(self._estimator, "predict", None) if not predict_function or not fit_function or not callable(predict_function) or \ not callable(fit_function): raise ValueError(MISSING_FIT_PREDICT_ERROR_MESSAGE) # Ensure that PostProcessing shows up in correct place in documentation # when it is used as a base class PostProcessing.__module__ = "fairlearn.postprocessing"