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Real-world datasets are often biased with respect to key demographic factors such as race and gender. Due to the latent nature of the underlying factors, detecting and mitigating bias is especially challenging for unsupervised machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Aditya Grover , Trisha Singh , Rui Shu , Stefano Ermon

Differentially private synthetic data is a promising alternative for sensitive data release. Many differentially private generative models have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, they all suffer from the low utility of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Cao , Chun-Ying Huang

In many application areas---lending, education, and online recommenders, for example---fairness and equity concerns emerge when a machine learning system interacts with a dynamically changing environment to produce both immediate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Elliot Creager , David Madras , Toniann Pitassi , Richard Zemel

Fair graph learning plays a pivotal role in numerous practical applications. Recently, many fair graph learning methods have been proposed; however, their evaluation often relies on poorly constructed semi-synthetic datasets or substandard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaowei Qian , Zhimeng Guo , Jialiang Li , Haitao Mao , Bingheng Li , Suhang Wang , Yao Ma

We introduce DexGanGrasp, a dexterous grasping synthesis method that generates and evaluates grasps with single view in real time. DexGanGrasp comprises a Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs)-based DexGenerator to generate…

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete structures, variable sizes, and class-specific connectivity patterns that resist conventional generative modelling. While recent graph generation methods employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , James Sargant , Sheridan Houghten , Renata Dividino

Generating high-fidelity synthetic tabular data under formal differential privacy guarantees remains an open challenge. Methods that provide strong theoretical protection typically sacrifice the modeling of inter-feature dependencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 M. Youssef , M. Woźniak

Unsupervised Representation Learning on graphs is gaining traction due to the increasing abundance of unlabelled network data and the compactness, richness, and usefulness of the representations generated. In this context, the need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Arvindh Arun , Aakash Aanegola , Amul Agrawal , Ramasuri Narayanam , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Requirements of large amounts of data is a difficulty in training many GANs. Data efficient GANs involve fitting a generators continuous target distribution with a limited discrete set of data samples, which is a difficult task. Single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Rajiv Kumar , G. Sivakumar

Access to medical data is highly restricted due to its sensitive nature, preventing communities from using this data for research or clinical training. Common methods of de-identification implemented to enable the sharing of data are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Anne Marie Delaney , Eoin Brophy , Tomas E. Ward

Synthetic data has emerged as a promising alternative for training face recognition (FR) models, offering advantages in scalability, privacy compliance, and potential for bias mitigation. However, critical questions remain on whether both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Pavel Korshunov , Ketan Kotwal , Christophe Ecabert , Vidit Vidit , Amir Mohammadi , Sebastien Marcel

The generation of synthetic data is a state-of-the-art approach to leverage when access to real data is limited or privacy regulations limit the usability of sensitive data. A fair amount of research has been conducted on synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Wilhelm Ågren , Victorio Úbeda Sosa

Modeling the probability distribution of rows in tabular data and generating realistic synthetic data is a non-trivial task. Tabular data usually contains a mix of discrete and continuous columns. Continuous columns may have multiple modes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Lei Xu , Maria Skoularidou , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

In this study, we explore the growing potential of AI and deep learning technologies, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), for generating synthetic tabular data. Access to quality students…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mohammad Khalil , Sam Urmian , Ronas Shakya , Qinyi Liu

Semantic layouts based Image synthesizing, which has benefited from the success of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), has drawn much attention in these days. How to enhance the synthesis image equality while keeping the stochasticity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ziqiang Zheng , Chao Wang , Zhibin Yu , Haiyong Zheng , Bing Zheng

The presence of a bias in each image data collection has recently attracted a lot of attention in the computer vision community showing the limits in generalization of any learning method trained on a specific dataset. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Tatiana Tommasi , Novi Patricia , Barbara Caputo , Tinne Tuytelaars

We introduce DeCaFlow, a deconfounding causal generative model. Training once per dataset using just observational data and the underlying causal graph, DeCaFlow enables accurate causal inference on continuous variables under the presence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Alejandro Almodóvar , Adrián Javaloy , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo , Isabel Valera

Fair machine learning aims to mitigate the biases of model predictions against certain subpopulations regarding sensitive attributes such as race and gender. Among the many existing fairness notions, counterfactual fairness measures the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Jing Ma , Ruocheng Guo , Mengting Wan , Longqi Yang , Aidong Zhang , Jundong Li

Fairness-aware domain generalization (FairDG) has emerged as a critical challenge for deploying trustworthy AI systems, particularly in scenarios involving distribution shifts. Traditional methods for addressing fairness have failed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yujie Lin , Dong Li , Minglai Shao , Guihong Wan , Chen Zhao