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The popularity of machine learning has increased the risk of unfair models getting deployed in high-stake applications, such as justice system, drug/vaccination design, and medical diagnosis. Although there are effective methods to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Mohit Bajaj , Lingyang Chu , Vittorio Romaniello , Gursimran Singh , Jian Pei , Zirui Zhou , Lanjun Wang , Yong Zhang

In machine learning fairness, training models that minimize disparity across different sensitive groups often leads to diminished accuracy, a phenomenon known as the fairness-accuracy trade-off. The severity of this trade-off inherently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq , Jean-Francois Ton , Yang Liu

Despite substantial progress in promoting fairness in high-stake applications using machine learning models, existing methods often modify the training process, such as through regularizers or other interventions, but lack formal guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Firas Laakom , Haobo Chen , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Yuheng Bu

Trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) technology has revolutionized daily life and greatly benefited human society. Among various AI technologies, Federated Learning (FL) stands out as a promising solution for diverse real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yifei Zhang , Dun Zeng , Jinglong Luo , Zenglin Xu , Irwin King

This paper investigates the critical issue of data poisoning attacks on AI models, a growing concern in the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. As advanced technology systems become increasingly prevalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Halima I. Kure , Pradipta Sarkar , Ahmed B. Ndanusa , Augustine O. Nwajana

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging practical framework for effective and scalable machine learning among multiple participants, such as end users, organizations and companies. However, most existing FL or distributed learning frameworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Xinyi Xu , Lingjuan Lyu

As AI systems increasingly rely on training data, assessing dataset trustworthiness has become critical, particularly for properties like fairness or bias that emerge at the dataset level. Prior work has used Subjective Logic to assess…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Koffi Ismael Ouattara , Ioannis Krontiris , Theo Dimitrakos , Frank Kargl

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a result of data ownership and privacy concerns to prevent data from being shared between multiple parties included in a training procedure. Although issues, such as privacy, have gained significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Cyprien de Lichy , John McKay , Cynthia He , William Campbell

Machine unlearning poses the challenge of ``how to eliminate the influence of specific data from a pretrained model'' in regard to privacy concerns. While prior research on approximated unlearning has demonstrated accuracy and efficiency in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

We present a framework that allows to certify the fairness degree of a model based on an interactive and privacy-preserving test. The framework verifies any trained model, regardless of its training process and architecture. Thus, it allows…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Shahar Segal , Yossi Adi , Benny Pinkas , Carsten Baum , Chaya Ganesh , Joseph Keshet

Federated learning is a prominent framework that enables clients (e.g., mobile devices or organizations) to train a collaboratively global model under a central server's orchestration while keeping local training datasets' privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Farnaz Tahmasebian , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

Fairness-aware learning aims to mitigate discrimination against specific protected social groups (e.g., those categorized by gender, ethnicity, age) while minimizing predictive performance loss. Despite efforts to improve fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Kewen Peng , Yicheng Yang , Hao Zhuo

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has been fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large amounts of data in many different applications. However, the trustworthiness of the resulting models can be compromised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Kathrin Grosse , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Marcello Pelillo

Machine learning models are brittle, and small changes in the training data can result in different predictions. We study the problem of proving that a prediction is robust to data poisoning, where an attacker can inject a number of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Samuel Drews , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

Robot behavior is often validated through simulation-based testing, yet the replicability of such campaigns depends critically on transparent documentation of how tests are configured, executed, and post-processed. We argue that data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Argentina Ortega , Samuel Wiest , Frederik Pasch , Nico Hochgeschwender

Federated learning (FL) has become a popular tool for solving traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. The multi-agent structure addresses the major concern of data-hungry in traditional RL, while the federated mechanism protects the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Evelyn Ma , Praneet Rathi , S. Rasoul Etesami

The issue of group fairness in machine learning models, where certain sub-populations or groups are favored over others, has been recognized for some time. While many mitigation strategies have been proposed in centralized learning, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ganghua Wang , Ali Payani , Myungjin Lee , Ramana Kompella

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius