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Existing research mostly improves the fairness of Machine Learning (ML) software regarding a single protected attribute at a time, but this is unrealistic given that many users have multiple protected attributes. This paper conducts an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhenpeng Chen , Jie M. Zhang , Federica Sarro , Mark Harman

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

Large-scale ASR models have achieved remarkable gains in accuracy and robustness. However, fairness issues remain largely unaddressed despite their critical importance in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce FairASR, a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Jongsuk Kim , Jaemyung Yu , Minchan Kwon , Junmo Kim

Adversarial representation learning aims to learn data representations for a target task while removing unwanted sensitive information at the same time. Existing methods learn model parameters iteratively through stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bashir Sadeghi , Lan Wang , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) represents the ability to disrupt Machine Learning (ML) algorithms through a range of methods that broadly exploit the architecture of deep learning optimisation. This paper presents Distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Harriet Farlow , Matthew Garratt , Gavin Mount , Tim Lynar

The goal of Fair Representation Learning (FRL) is to mitigate biases in machine learning models by learning data representations that enable high accuracy on downstream tasks while minimizing discrimination based on sensitive attributes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Angéline Pouget , Nikola Jovanović , Mark Vero , Robin Staab , Martin Vechev

In this work, we consider the problem of intersectional group fairness in the classification setting, where the objective is to learn discrimination-free models in the presence of several intersecting sensitive groups. First, we illustrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gaurav Maheshwari , Aurélien Bellet , Pascal Denis , Mikaela Keller

Addressing fairness concerns about machine learning models is a crucial step towards their long-term adoption in real-world automated systems. While many approaches have been developed for training fair models from data, little is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Nikola Konstantinov , Christoph H. Lampert

Optimizing prediction accuracy can come at the expense of fairness. Towards minimizing discrimination against a group, fair machine learning algorithms strive to equalize the behavior of a model across different groups, by imposing a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Hongyan Chang , Ta Duy Nguyen , Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Ehsan Kazemi , Reza Shokri

We present a data-driven framework for learning fair universal representations (FUR) that guarantee statistical fairness for any learning task that may not be known a priori. Our framework leverages recent advances in adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Peter Kairouz , Jiachun Liao , Chong Huang , Maunil Vyas , Monica Welfert , Lalitha Sankar

In medical image diagnosis, fairness has become increasingly crucial. Without bias mitigation, deploying unfair AI would harm the interests of the underprivileged population and potentially tear society apart. Recent research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching-Hao Chiu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Deep neural networks coupled with fast simulation and improved computation have led to recent successes in the field of reinforcement learning (RL). However, most current RL-based approaches fail to generalize since: (a) the gap between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Lerrel Pinto , James Davidson , Rahul Sukthankar , Abhinav Gupta

Multimodal learning often encounters the under-optimized problem and may perform worse than unimodal learning. Existing approaches attribute this issue to imbalanced learning across modalities and tend to address it through gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shicai Wei , Chunbo Luo , Yang Luo

In recent years fairness in machine learning (ML) has emerged as a highly active area of research and development. Most define fairness in simple terms, where fairness means reducing gaps in performance or outcomes between demographic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Brent Mittelstadt , Sandra Wachter , Chris Russell

Speaker recognition is increasingly used in several everyday applications including smart speakers, customer care centers and other speech-driven analytics. It is crucial to accurately evaluate and mitigate biases present in machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Raghuveer Peri , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this paper, a novel unsupervised low-rank representation model, i.e., Auto-weighted Low-Rank Representation (ALRR), is proposed to construct a more favorable similarity graph (SG) for clustering. In particular, ALRR enhances the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhiqiang Fu , Yao Zhao , Dongxia Chang , Xingxing Zhang , Yiming Wang

The use of machine learning (ML) in high-stakes societal decisions has encouraged the consideration of fairness throughout the ML lifecycle. Although data integration is one of the primary steps to generate high quality training data, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Sainyam Galhotra , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Prasanna Sattigeri , Kush R. Varshney

Adversarial training has been empirically proven to be one of the most effective and reliable defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, almost all existing studies about adversarial training are focused on balanced datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wentao Wang , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu , Yaxin Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Jiliang Tang

Machine learning systems are often deployed for making critical decisions like credit lending, hiring, etc. While making decisions, such systems often encode the user's demographic information (like gender, age) in their intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Machine learning models often inherit biases from historical data, raising critical concerns about fairness and accountability. Conventional fairness interventions typically require access to sensitive attributes like gender or race, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yixiao Lin , James Booth