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With the widespread adoption of machine learning in the real world, the impact of the discriminatory bias has attracted attention. In recent years, various methods to mitigate the bias have been proposed. However, most of them have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kenji Kobayashi , Yuri Nakao

Due to the recent cases of algorithmic bias in data-driven decision-making, machine learning methods are being put under the microscope in order to understand the root cause of these biases and how to correct them. Here, we consider a basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-25 L. Elisa Celis , Amit Deshpande , Tarun Kathuria , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Machine learning algorithms are useful for various predictions tasks, but they can also learn how to discriminate, based on gender, race or other sensitive attributes. This realization gave rise to the field of fair machine learning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Drago Plečko , Nicolas Bennett , Nicolai Meinshausen

We study fairness in Machine Learning (FairML) through the lens of attribute-based explanations generated for machine learning models. Our hypothesis is: Biased Models have Biased Explanations. To establish that, we first translate existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Aditya Jain , Manish Ravula , Joydeep Ghosh

Fairness is a critical requirement for Machine Learning (ML) software, driving the development of numerous bias mitigation methods. Previous research has identified a leveling-down effect in bias mitigation for computer vision and natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhenpeng Chen , Xinyue Li , Jie M. Zhang , Weisong Sun , Ying Xiao , Tianlin Li , Yiling Lou , Yang Liu

With the universal adoption of machine learning in healthcare, the potential for the automation of societal biases to further exacerbate health disparities poses a significant risk. We explore algorithmic fairness from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Md Rahat Shahriar Zawad , Peter Washington

Causal machine learning methods which flexibly generate heterogeneous treatment effect estimates could be very useful tools for governments trying to make and implement policy. However, as the critical artificial intelligence literature has…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-09-06 Patrick Rehill , Nicholas Biddle

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

Addressing bias in the trained machine learning system often requires access to sensitive attributes. In practice, these attributes are not available either due to legal and policy regulations or data unavailability for a given demographic.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bhushan Chaudhary , Anubha Pandey , Deepak Bhatt , Darshika Tiwari

The definition and implementation of fairness in automated decisions has been extensively studied by the research community. Yet, there hides fallacious reasoning, misleading assertions, and questionable practices at the foundations of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Robert Lee Poe , Soumia Zohra El Mestari

This project explores adversarial training techniques to develop fairer Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to mitigate the inherent bias they are known to exhibit. DNNs are susceptible to inheriting bias with respect to sensitive attributes such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Allen Minch , Hung Anh Vu , Anne Marie Warren

Trained classification models can unintentionally lead to biased representations and predictions, which can reinforce societal preconceptions and stereotypes. Existing debiasing methods for classification models, such as adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Aili Shen , Xudong Han , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin , Lea Frermann

Recent research has shown that seemingly fair machine learning models, when used to inform decisions that have an impact on peoples' lives or well-being (e.g., applications involving education, employment, and lending), can inadvertently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Aline Weber , Blossom Metevier , Yuriy Brun , Philip S. Thomas , Bruno Castro da Silva

One of the key issues regarding classification problems in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence is ensuring Fairness in the prediction of different classes when protected (sensitive) features are present. Data quality is critical in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 José Daniel Pascual-Triana , Alberto Fernández , Paulo Novais , Francisco Herrera

Machine learning models often make predictions based on biased features such as gender, race, and other social attributes, posing significant fairness risks, especially in societal applications, such as hiring, banking, and criminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yi Zhang , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

Algorithmic decision making based on computer vision and machine learning technologies continue to permeate our lives. But issues related to biases of these models and the extent to which they treat certain segments of the population…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Aditya Kumar Akash , Sathya N. Ravi , Vikas Singh

Fairness is becoming a rising concern w.r.t. machine learning model performance. Especially for sensitive fields such as criminal justice and loan decision, eliminating the prediction discrimination towards a certain group of population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Xiaoqian Wang , Heng Huang

Growing concerns regarding algorithmic fairness have led to a surge in methodologies to mitigate algorithmic bias. However, such methodologies largely assume that observed labels in training data are correct. This is problematic because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yunyi Li , Maria De-Arteaga , Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

Recent years have witnessed increasing concerns towards unfair decisions made by machine learning algorithms. To improve fairness in model decisions, various fairness notions have been proposed and many fairness-aware methods are developed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Tianci Liu , Haoyu Wang , Yaqing Wang , Xiaoqian Wang , Lu Su , Jing Gao

We consider an online learning problem with one-sided feedback, in which the learner is able to observe the true label only for positively predicted instances. On each round, $k$ instances arrive and receive classification outcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Yahav Bechavod , Aaron Roth