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The development of fair and unbiased machine learning models remains an ongoing objective for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. We introduce the Differential Adjusted Parity (DAP) loss to produce unbiased informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

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

As deep learning (DL) techniques become integral to various applications, ensuring model fairness while maintaining high performance has become increasingly critical, particularly in sensitive fields such as medical diagnosis. Although a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yuanbo Guo , Jun Xia , Yiyu Shi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in tackling a wide array of graph-related tasks across diverse domains. However, a significant challenge lies in their propensity to generate biased predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Abdullah Alchihabi , Yuhong Guo

Despite the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in modeling graph-structured data, like other machine learning models, GNNs are also susceptible to making biased predictions based on sensitive attributes, such as race and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Cheng Yang , Jixi Liu , Yunhe Yan , Chuan Shi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often face challenges due to their vulnerability to various adversarial perturbations, including false perturbations that undermine prediction accuracy and biased perturbations that cause biased predictions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xuran Li , Peng Wu , Kaixiang Dong , Zhen Zhang , Yanting Chen

This paper investigates neuron dropout as a post-processing bias mitigation for deep neural networks (DNNs). Neural-driven software solutions are increasingly applied in socially critical domains with significant fairness implications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Ashish Kumar , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Gang Tan

Performance of trained neural network (NN) models, in terms of testing accuracy, has improved remarkably over the past several years, especially with the advent of deep learning. However, even the most accurate NNs can be biased toward a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mahum Naseer , Bharath Srinivas Prabakaran , Osman Hasan , Muhammad Shafique

Machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance in many areas. However, the concerns that they can be biased against specific demographic groups hinder their adoption in high-stake applications. Thus, it is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Canyu Chen , Yueqing Liang , Xiongxiao Xu , Shangyu Xie , Ashish Kundu , Ali Payani , Yuan Hong , Kai Shu

In this paper, we introduced the novel concept of advisor network to address the problem of noisy labels in image classification. Deep neural networks (DNN) are prone to performance reduction and overfitting problems on training data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Simone Ricci , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto Del Bimbo

In classification models fairness can be ensured by solving a constrained optimization problem. We focus on fairness constraints like Disparate Impact, Demographic Parity, and Equalized Odds, which are non-decomposable and non-convex.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Padala Manisha , Sujit Gujar

Although deep learning has demonstrated astonishing performance in many applications, there are still concerns about its dependability. One desirable property of deep learning applications with societal impact is fairness (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peixin Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Xinyu Wang , Guoliang Dong , Xingen Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong

Recently, much attention has been paid to the societal impact of AI, especially concerns regarding its fairness. A growing body of research has identified unfair AI systems and proposed methods to debias them, yet many challenges remain.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ziqian Zeng , Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Naher Keya , James Foulds , Yangqiu Song , Shimei Pan

Machine learning models are extensively being used to make decisions that have a significant impact on human life. These models are trained over historical data that may contain information about sensitive attributes such as race, sex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramanujam Madhavan , Mohit Wadhwa

Learning discriminative powerful representations is a crucial step for machine learning systems. Introducing invariance against arbitrary nuisance or sensitive attributes while performing well on specific tasks is an important problem in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Mhd Hasan Sarhan , Nassir Navab , Abouzar Eslami , Shadi Albarqouni

A number of methods have been introduced for the fair ML issue, most of them complex and many of them very specific to the underlying ML moethodology. Here we introduce a new approach that is simple, easily explained, and potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Norman Matloff , Wenxi Zhang

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

Fairness-aware learning involves designing algorithms that do not discriminate with respect to some sensitive feature (e.g., race or gender). Existing work on the problem operates under the assumption that the sensitive feature available in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Alexandre Louis Lamy , Ziyuan Zhong , Aditya Krishna Menon , Nakul Verma

Mitigating bias in automated decision-making systems, particularly in deep learning models, is a critical challenge due to nuanced definitions of fairness, dataset-specific biases, and the inherent trade-off between fairness and accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Charmaine Barker , Daniel Bethell , Dimitar Kazakov

Group fairness is a central research topic in text classification, where reaching fair treatment between sensitive groups (e.g. women vs. men) remains an open challenge. This paper presents a novel method for mitigating biases in neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Thibaud Leteno , Antoine Gourru , Charlotte Laclau , Rémi Emonet , Christophe Gravier