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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

Fairness-aware learning is increasingly important in data mining. Discrimination prevention aims to prevent discrimination in the training data before it is used to conduct predictive analysis. In this paper, we focus on fair data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

Machine learning software is increasingly being used to make decisions that affect people's lives. But sometimes, the core part of this software (the learned model), behaves in a biased manner that gives undue advantages to a specific group…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Joymallya Chakraborty , Suvodeep Majumder , Zhe Yu , Tim Menzies

This paper presents a philosophical and experimental study of fairness interventions in AI classification, centered on the explainability of corrective methods. We argue that ensuring fairness requires not only satisfying a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Souverain , Johnathan Nguyen , Nicolas Meric , Paul Égré

The rapid growth of data in the recent years has led to the development of complex learning algorithms that are often used to make decisions in real world. While the positive impact of the algorithms has been tremendous, there is a need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro

The integration of AI in education holds immense potential for personalizing learning experiences and transforming instructional practices. However, AI systems can inadvertently encode and amplify biases present in educational data, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhipeng Yin , Sribala Vidyadhari Chinta , Zichong Wang , Matthew Gonzalez , Wenbin Zhang

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

Mitigating bias in automated decision-making systems, particularly in deep learning models, is a critical challenge due to nuanced definitions of fairness, dataset-specific biases, and the inherent trade-off between fairness and accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Charmaine Barker , Daniel Bethell , Dimitar Kazakov

Understanding and removing bias from the decisions made by machine learning models is essential to avoid discrimination against unprivileged groups. Despite recent progress in algorithmic fairness, there is still no clear answer as to which…

Machine Learning models have been deployed across many different aspects of society, often in situations that affect social welfare. Although these models offer streamlined solutions to large problems, they may contain biases and treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tal Feldman , Ashley Peake

With the widespread use of AI systems and applications in our everyday lives, it is important to take fairness issues into consideration while designing and engineering these types of systems. Such systems can be used in many sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Fred Morstatter , Nripsuta Saxena , Kristina Lerman , Aram Galstyan

Training models with robust group fairness properties is crucial in ethically sensitive application areas such as medical diagnosis. Despite the growing body of work aiming to minimise demographic bias in AI, this problem remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Raman Dutt , Ondrej Bohdal , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

We study fair classification in the presence of an omniscient adversary that, given an $\eta$, is allowed to choose an arbitrary $\eta$-fraction of the training samples and arbitrarily perturb their protected attributes. The motivation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 L. Elisa Celis , Anay Mehrotra , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

In this paper we examine algorithmic fairness from the perspective of law aiming to identify best practices and strategies for the specification and adoption of fairness definitions and algorithms in real-world systems and use cases. We…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Giorgos Giannopoulos , Maria Psalla , Loukas Kavouras , Dimitris Sacharidis , Jakub Marecek , German M Matilla , Ioannis Emiris

Various tools and practices have been developed to support practitioners in identifying, assessing, and mitigating fairness-related harms caused by AI systems. However, prior research has highlighted gaps between the intended design of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Michael Madaio , Lisa Egede , Hariharan Subramonyam , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan , Hanna Wallach

Algorithm fairness has become a central problem for the broad adoption of artificial intelligence. Although the past decade has witnessed an explosion of excellent work studying algorithm biases, achieving fairness in real-world AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 James Enouen , Tianshu Sun , Yan Liu

Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-06 Niki Kilbertus , Adrià Gascón , Matt J. Kusner , Michael Veale , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adrian Weller

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations that degrade both predictive accuracy and individual fairness, posing critical risks in high-stakes online decision-making. The relationship between these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuran Li , Hao Xue , Peng Wu , Xingjun Ma , Zhen Zhang , Huaming Chen , Flora D. Salim

In today's society, AI systems are increasingly used to make critical decisions such as credit scoring and patient triage. However, great convenience brought by AI systems comes with troubling prevalence of bias against underrepresented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu , Chris Clifton

The debate around bias in AI systems is central to discussions on algorithmic fairness. However, the term bias often lacks a clear definition, despite frequently being contrasted with fairness, implying that an unbiased model is inherently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chiara Lindloff , Ingo Siegert