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The idealization of a static machine-learned model, trained once and deployed forever, is not practical. As input distributions change over time, the model will not only lose accuracy, any constraints to reduce bias against a protected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Abdulaziz A. Almuzaini , Chidansh A. Bhatt , David M. Pennock , Vivek K. Singh

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius

Thanks to their ability to learn data distributions without requiring paired data, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become an integral part of many computer vision methods, including those developed for medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Machine learning is being integrated into a growing number of critical systems with far-reaching impacts on society. Unexpected behaviour and unfair decision processes are coming under increasing scrutiny due to this widespread use and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Pieter Delobelle , Paul Temple , Gilles Perrouin , Benoît Frénay , Patrick Heymans , Bettina Berendt

Existing face forgery detection methods usually treat face forgery detection as a binary classification problem and adopt deep convolution neural networks to learn discriminative features. The ideal discriminative features should be only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Wanyi Zhuang , Qi Chu , Haojie Yuan , Changtao Miao , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

We address the problem of bias in automated face recognition and demographic attribute estimation algorithms, where errors are lower on certain cohorts belonging to specific demographic groups. We present a novel de-biasing adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Sixue Gong , Xiaoming Liu , Anil K. Jain

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

Face recognition networks encode information about sensitive attributes while being trained for identity classification. Such encoding has two major issues: (a) it makes the face representations susceptible to privacy leakage (b) it appears…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Prithviraj Dhar , Joshua Gleason , Aniket Roy , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Facial analysis models are increasingly applied in real-world applications that have significant impact on peoples' lives. However, as literature has shown, models that automatically classify facial attributes might exhibit algorithmic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Camila Kolling , Victor Araujo , Adriano Veloso , Soraia Raupp Musse

With the swift advancement of deep learning, state-of-the-art algorithms have been utilized in various social situations. Nonetheless, some algorithms have been discovered to exhibit biases and provide unequal results. The current debiasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shangxi Wu , Qiuyang He , Jian Yu , Jitao Sang

As AI systems become more embedded in everyday life, the development of fair and unbiased models becomes more critical. Considering the social impact of AI systems is not merely a technical challenge but a moral imperative. As evidenced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Aida Tayebi , Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

Learning algorithms that learn linear models often have high representation bias on real-world problems. In this paper, we show that this representation bias can be greatly reduced by discretization. Discretization is a common procedure in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Nayyar A. Zaidi , Yang Du , Geoffrey I. Webb

Prior studies have unveiled the vulnerability of the deep neural networks in the context of adversarial machine learning, leading to great recent attention into this area. One interesting question that has yet to be fully explored is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

Biases in machine learning pose significant challenges, particularly when models amplify disparities that affect disadvantaged groups. Traditional bias mitigation techniques often lead to a {\itshape leveling-down effect}, whereby improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lucas Mansilla , Rodrigo Echeveste , Camila Gonzalez , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

Collider bias is a harmful form of sample selection bias that neural networks are ill-equipped to handle. This bias manifests itself when the underlying causal signal is strongly correlated with other confounding signals due to the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Luke Darlow , Stanisław Jastrzębski , Amos Storkey

In adversarial imitation learning, a discriminator is trained to differentiate agent episodes from expert demonstrations representing the desired behavior. However, as the trained policy learns to be more successful, the negative examples…

Systems that perform image manipulation using deep convolutional networks have achieved remarkable realism. Perceptual losses and losses based on adversarial discriminators are the two main classes of learning objectives behind these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Diana Sungatullina , Egor Zakharov , Dmitry Ulyanov , Victor Lempitsky

Fairness has become a central issue for our research community as classification algorithms are adopted in societally critical domains such as recidivism prediction and loan approval. In this work, we consider the potential bias based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Rui Feng , Yang Yang , Yuehan Lyu , Chenhao Tan , Yizhou Sun , Chunping Wang

The development of fair and unbiased machine learning models remains an ongoing objective for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. We introduce the Differential Adjusted Parity (DAP) loss to produce unbiased informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Although deep face recognition has achieved impressive progress in recent years, controversy has arisen regarding discrimination based on skin tone, questioning their deployment into real-world scenarios. In this paper, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Mei Wang , Yaobin Zhang , Weihong Deng