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Fairness in machine learning is more important than ever as ethical concerns continue to grow. Individual fairness demands that individuals differing only in sensitive attributes receive the same outcomes. However, commonly used machine…

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Neural networks have received a lot of attention recently, and related security issues have come with it. Many studies have shown that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that have been artificially perturbed with…

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Fairness-aware learning aims at satisfying various fairness constraints in addition to the usual performance criteria via data-driven machine learning techniques. Most of the research in fairness-aware learning employs the setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Pratik Gajane , Akrati Saxena , Maryam Tavakol , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Modern NLP systems exhibit a range of biases, which a growing literature on model debiasing attempts to correct. However current progress is hampered by a plurality of definitions of bias, means of quantification, and oftentimes vague…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

The vulnerability to slight input perturbations is a worrying yet intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite many previous works studying the reason behind such adversarial behavior, the relationship between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Yujun Shi , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

Deep generative models have made much progress in improving training stability and quality of generated data. Recently there has been increased interest in the fairness of deep-generated data. Fairness is important in many applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Christopher T. H Teo , Ngai-Man Cheung

The underlying assumption of many machine learning algorithms is that the training data and test data are drawn from the same distributions. However, the assumption is often violated in real world due to the sample selection bias between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Wei Du , Xintao Wu

Driven by the powerful representation ability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), plentiful GNN models have been widely deployed in many real-world applications. Nevertheless, due to distribution disparities between different demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhixun Li , Yushun Dong , Qiang Liu , Jeffrey Xu Yu

Ensembling multiple Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is a simple and effective way to improve top-line metrics and to outperform a larger single model. In this work, we go beyond top-line metrics and instead explore the impact of ensembling on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-22 Wei-Yin Ko , Daniel D'souza , Karina Nguyen , Randall Balestriero , Sara Hooker

Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tran Gia Bao Ngo , Zulfikar Alom , Federico Errica , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is an important aspect to consider for their clinical applications. This work examined robustness issue for a DNN-based multi-class classification model via comprehensive experimental and simulation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yuting Peng , Chenyang Shen , Yesenia Gonzalez , Yin Gao , Xun Jia

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

Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact in people's lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups disproportionately. As a result, the issue of fairness has received much…

Fairness-aware machine learning seeks to maximise utility in generating predictions while avoiding unfair discrimination based on sensitive attributes such as race, sex, religion, etc. An important line of work in this field is enforcing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Stelios Boulitsakis-Logothetis

We identify fragile and robust neurons of deep learning architectures using nodal dropouts of the first convolutional layer. Using an adversarial targeting algorithm, we correlate these neurons with the distribution of adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chandresh Pravin , Ivan Martino , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in safety-critical applications, including law enforcement, yet they exhibit bias across a range of socio-demographic dimensions, such as gender and race. Conventional wisdom dictates that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Samuel Dooley , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , John P. Dickerson , Colin White , Frank Hutter , Micah Goldblum

Image classifiers are an important component of today's software, from consumer and business applications to safety-critical domains. The advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is the key catalyst behind such wide-spread success. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yuchi Tian , Ziyuan Zhong , Vicente Ordonez , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Adversarial training has been shown to be reliable in improving robustness against adversarial samples. However, the problem of adversarial training in terms of fairness has not yet been properly studied, and the relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Junyi Chai , Xiaoqian Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made rapid developments in the recent years. Due to their great ability in modeling graph-structured data, GNNs are vastly used in various applications, including high-stakes scenarios such as financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Enyan Dai , Tianxiang Zhao , Huaisheng Zhu , Junjie Xu , Zhimeng Guo , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Suhang Wang

Neural networks are very successful at detecting patterns in noisy data, and have become the technology of choice in many fields. However, their usefulness is hampered by their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Recently, many methods…

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