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Auditing involves verifying the proper implementation of a given policy. As such, auditing is essential for ensuring compliance with the principles of fairness, equity, and transparency mandated by the European Union's AI Act. Moreover,…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-04 Valentin Lafargue , Emmanuelle Claeys , Jean-Michel Loubes

Supervised fairness-aware machine learning under distribution shifts is an emerging field that addresses the challenge of maintaining equitable and unbiased predictions when faced with changes in data distributions from source to target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Minglai Shao , Dong Li , Chen Zhao , Xintao Wu , Yujie Lin , Qin Tian

Regression-based predictive analytics used in modern kidney transplantation is known to inherit biases from training data. This leads to social discrimination and inefficient organ utilization, particularly in the context of a few social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mukund Telukunta , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla , Morgan Stuart , Casey Canfield

Deep learning-based facial recognition systems have experienced increased media attention due to exhibiting unfair behavior. Large enterprises, such as IBM, shut down their facial recognition and age prediction systems as a consequence. Age…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yushi Cao , David Berend , Palina Tolmach , Guy Amit , Moshe Levy , Yang Liu , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about our ability to ensure their fairness, that is, how to avoid discrimination based on protected characteristics such as gender, race, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar , MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

There has been increasing awareness of ethical issues in machine learning, and fairness has become an important research topic. Most fairness efforts in computer vision have been focused on human sensing applications and preventing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Zu Kim , André Araujo , Bingyi Cao , Cam Askew , Jack Sim , Mike Green , N'Mah Fodiatu Yilla , Tobias Weyand

There have been many papers with algorithms for improving fairness of machine-learning classifiers for tabular data. Unfortunately, most use only very few datasets for their experimental evaluation. We introduce a suite of functions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Martin Hirzel , Michael Feffer

Data collected about individuals is regularly used to make decisions that impact those same individuals. We consider settings where sensitive personal data is used to decide who will receive resources or benefits. While it is well known…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Satya Kuppam , Ryan Mckenna , David Pujol , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

Machine learning algorithms are now frequently used in sensitive contexts that substantially affect the course of human lives, such as credit lending or criminal justice. This is driven by the idea that `objective' machines base their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Songül Tolan

Fairness in data-driven decision-making studies scenarios where individuals from certain population segments may be unfairly treated when being considered for loan or job applications, access to public resources, or other types of services.…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Sina Shaham , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

Machine learning is a tool for building models that accurately represent input training data. When undesired biases concerning demographic groups are in the training data, well-trained models will reflect those biases. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Brian Hu Zhang , Blake Lemoine , Margaret Mitchell

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

In recent years, machine learning algorithms have become ubiquitous in a multitude of high-stakes decision-making applications. The unparalleled ability of machine learning algorithms to learn patterns from data also enables them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 José Pombal , André F. Cruz , João Bravo , Pedro Saleiro , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , Pedro Bizarro

New social and economic activities massively exploit big data and machine learning algorithms to do inference on people's lives. Applications include automatic curricula evaluation, wage determination, and risk assessment for credits and…

We introduce a fairness-aware dataset for job recommendations in advertising, designed to foster research in algorithmic fairness within real-world scenarios. It was collected and prepared to comply with privacy standards and business…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Mariia Vladimirova , Federico Pavone , Eustache Diemert

The increasing amount of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led researchers to study the social impact of these technologies and evaluate their fairness. Unfortunately, current fairness metrics are hard to apply in multi-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

This paper introduces a novel dataset to help researchers evaluate their computer vision and audio models for accuracy across a diverse set of age, genders, apparent skin tones and ambient lighting conditions. Our dataset is composed of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Caner Hazirbas , Joanna Bitton , Brian Dolhansky , Jacqueline Pan , Albert Gordo , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in high-stakes applications impacting society. Therefore, it is of critical importance that ML models do not propagate discrimination. Collecting accurate labeled data in societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Hadis Anahideh , Abolfazl Asudeh , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

A diverse representation of different demographic groups in AI training data sets is important in ensuring that the models will work for a large range of users. To this end, recent efforts in AI fairness and inclusion have advocated for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Joon Sung Park , Michael S. Bernstein , Robin N. Brewer , Ece Kamar , Meredith Ringel Morris

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