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The development of face recognition algorithms by academic and commercial organizations is growing rapidly due to the onset of deep learning and the widespread availability of training data. Though tests of face recognition algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 John J. Howard , Eli J. Laird , Yevgeniy B. Sirotin , Rebecca E. Rubin , Jerry L. Tipton , Arun R. Vemury

The digitalization of credit scoring has become essential for financial institutions and commercial banks, especially in the era of digital transformation. Machine learning techniques are commonly used to evaluate customers'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Huyen Giang Thi Thu , Thang Viet Doan , Ha-Bang Ban , Tai Le Quy

In representation learning, there has been recent interest in developing algorithms to disentangle the ground-truth generative factors behind a dataset, and metrics to quantify how fully this occurs. However, these algorithms and metrics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Andrew Slavin Ross , Finale Doshi-Velez

Human lives are increasingly being affected by the outcomes of automated decision-making systems and it is essential for the latter to be, not only accurate, but also fair. The literature of algorithmic fairness has grown considerably over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ainhize Barrainkua , Paula Gordaliza , Jose A. Lozano , Novi Quadrianto

This paper examines the issue of fairness in the estimation of graphical models (GMs), particularly Gaussian, Covariance, and Ising models. These models play a vital role in understanding complex relationships in high-dimensional data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Zhuoping Zhou , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , Bojian Hou , Qi Long , Li Shen

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performances have advanced with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive nature of face data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

Despite the growing reliance on fairness benchmarks to evaluate language models, the datasets that underpin these benchmarks remain critically underexamined. This survey addresses that overlooked foundation by offering a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiale Zhang , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Zhipeng Yin , Wenbin Zhang

There has been a prevalence of applying AI software in both high-stakes public-sector and industrial contexts. However, the lack of transparency has raised concerns about whether these data-informed AI software decisions secure fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xiaoyin Xi , Zhe Yu

How should we evaluate the quality of generative models? Many existing metrics focus on a model's producibility, i.e. the quality and breadth of outputs it can generate. However, the actual value from using a generative model stems not just…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Keyon Vafa , Sarah Bentley , Jon Kleinberg , Sendhil Mullainathan

Algorithmic fairness has attracted increasing attention in the machine learning community. Various definitions are proposed in the literature, but the differences and connections among them are not clearly addressed. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zeyu Tang , Jiji Zhang , Kun Zhang

Fairness emerged as an important requirement to guarantee that Machine Learning (ML) predictive systems do not discriminate against specific individuals or entire sub-populations, in particular, minorities. Given the inherent subjectivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Karima Makhlouf , Sami Zhioua , Catuscia Palamidessi

Generative modeling has been used frequently in synthetic data generation. Fairness and privacy are two big concerns for synthetic data. Although Recent GAN [\cite{goodfellow2014generative}] based methods show good results in preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Weijie Xu , Jinjin Zhao , Francis Iannacci , Bo Wang

The demographic disparity of biometric systems has led to serious concerns regarding their societal impact as well as applicability of such systems in private and public domains. A quantitative evaluation of demographic fairness is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ketan Kotwal , Sebastien Marcel

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the greatest advances in AI in recent years. With their ability to directly learn the probability distribution of data, and then sample synthetic realistic data. Many applications have…

This work examines the fairness of generative mobility models, addressing the often overlooked dimension of equity in model performance across geographic regions. Predictive models built on crowd flow data are instrumental in understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Daniel Wang , Jack McFarland , Afra Mashhadi , Ekin Ugurel

Fair machine learning research has been primarily concerned with classification tasks that result in discrimination. However, as machine learning algorithms are applied in new contexts the harms and injustices that result are qualitatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 James Michelson

Deep generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Diffusion Models, and Transformers, have shown great promise in a variety of applications, including image and speech synthesis, natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lyle Regenwetter , Akash Srivastava , Dan Gutfreund , Faez Ahmed

Algorithmic fairness has gained prominence due to societal and regulatory concerns about biases in Machine Learning models. Common group fairness metrics like Equalized Odds for classification or Demographic Parity for both classification…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 François HU , Philipp Ratz , Arthur Charpentier

Fairness in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models is becoming critically important, especially as decisions made by these systems impact diverse groups. In education, a vital sector for all countries, the widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nga Pham , Minh Kha Do , Tran Vu Dai , Pham Ngoc Hung , Anh Nguyen-Duc

The significant advancements in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to healthcare decision-making, medical diagnosis, and other domains have simultaneously raised concerns about the fairness and bias of AI systems. This is particularly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Emilio Ferrara