METHOD FOR DETECTING AND MITIGATING BIAS AND WEAKNESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING DATA AND MODELS

Bias may be detected globally and locally by harnessing the white-box nature of the eXplainable artificial intelligence, eXplainable Neural Nets, Interpretable Neural Nets, eXplainable Transducer Transformers, eXplainable Spiking Nets, eXplainable Memory Net and eXplainable Reinforcement Learning models. Methods for detecting bias, strength, and weakness of data sets and the resulting models may be described. A method may implement global bias detection which utilizes the coefficients of the model to identify, minimize, and/or correct potential bias within a desired error tolerance. Another method makes use of local feature importance extracted from the rule-based model coefficients to locally identify bias. A third method aggregates the feature importance over the results/explanations of multiple samples. Bias may also be detected in multi-dimensional data such as images. A backmap reverse indexing mechanism may be implemented. A number of mitigation methods are also presented to eliminate bias from the affected models.