It's a setup that is somewhat similar to GANs (and even closer to a related method called Fader Networks): - a first network take the input data and return a r

It's a setup that is somewhat similar to GANs (and even closer to a related method called Fader Networks): - a first network take the input data and return a representation A (like an embedding vector): let's called it the "censor network" - a second network take this embedding A as input and is trained to predict the class that should be censored (for example the gender of a person) : the "discriminator network" - a third network take the same embedding A as input and is trained to predict the real task of interest (for example the probability of credit default) : the "predictor network" The idea is that, by training the censor to make the discriminator fail (predict the wrong class) while making the predictor work, it will force the censor to learn a transformation of the input data that keeps the task related information in the embedding A, but removes the information correlated to the "censored class" (and that could be used to discriminate). Here's a reference about this kind of methods, but it's still an active domain of study in ML and there are many papers that followed this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07593.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07593.pdf