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The issue of group fairness in machine learning models, where certain sub-populations or groups are favored over others, has been recognized for some time. While many mitigation strategies have been proposed in centralized learning, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ganghua Wang , Ali Payani , Myungjin Lee , Ramana Kompella

As the data-driven decision process becomes dominating for industrial applications, fairness-aware machine learning arouses great attention in various areas. This work proposes fairness penalties learned by neural networks with a simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song , Guang Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant progress, but often suffer from fairness issues, as deep models typically show distinct accuracy differences among certain subgroups (e.g., males and females). Existing research addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Tianlin Li , Qing Guo , Aishan Liu , Mengnan Du , Zhiming Li , Yang Liu

Fairness in machine learning has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The fairness methods improving algorithmic fairness for in-distribution data may not perform well under distribution shifts. In this paper, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhimeng Jiang , Xiaotian Han , Hongye Jin , Guanchu Wang , Rui Chen , Na Zou , Xia Hu

People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Preethi Lahoti , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

Machine learning actively impacts our everyday life in almost all endeavors and domains such as healthcare, finance, and energy. As our dependence on the machine learning increases, it is inevitable that these algorithms will be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising collaborative and secure paradigm for training a model from decentralized data without compromising privacy. Group fairness and client fairness are two dimensions of fairness that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Cong Su , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Hui Li , Qingzhong Li , Han Yu

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

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

Machine learning methods based on AdaBoost have been widely applied to various classification problems across many mission-critical applications including healthcare, law and finance. However, there is a growing concern about the unfairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xiaobin Song , Zeyuan Liu , Benben Jiang

Ensuring fairness in machine learning models is critical, particularly in high-stakes domains where biased decisions can lead to serious societal consequences. Existing preprocessing approaches generally lack transparent mechanisms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Lin Zhu , Yijun Bian , Lei You

Artificial Intelligence-generated content has become increasingly popular, yet its malicious use, particularly the deepfakes, poses a serious threat to public trust and discourse. While deepfake detection methods achieve high predictive…

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Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

Recent studies have shown that Machine Learning (ML) models can exhibit bias in real-world scenarios, posing significant challenges in ethically sensitive domains such as healthcare. Such bias can negatively affect model fairness, model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Junyu Yan , Feng Chen , Yuyang Xue , Yuning Du , Konstantinos Vilouras , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Steven McDonagh

Ensuring fairness is critical when applying artificial intelligence to high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where predictive models trained on imbalanced and demographically skewed data risk exacerbating existing disparities. Federated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qiming Wu , Siqi Li , Doudou Zhou , Nan Liu

Fair machine learning is receiving an increasing attention in machine learning fields. Researchers in fair learning have developed correlation or association-based measures such as demographic disparity, mistreatment disparity, calibration,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

Fairness-awareness has emerged as an essential building block for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in real applications. In many cases, inequity in performance is due to the change in distribution over different regions. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhihao Wang , Yiqun Xie , Zhili Li , Xiaowei Jia , Zhe Jiang , Aolin Jia , Shuo Xu

Machine learning systems are often deployed for making critical decisions like credit lending, hiring, etc. While making decisions, such systems often encode the user's demographic information (like gender, age) in their intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Machine learning models have achieved widespread success but often inherit and amplify historical biases, resulting in unfair outcomes. Traditional fairness methods typically impose constraints at the prediction level, without addressing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Enze Shi , Pankaj Bhagwat , Zhixian Yang , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang