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In this paper, we propose a novel method, IB-RAR, which uses Information Bottleneck (IB) to strengthen adversarial robustness for both adversarial training and non-adversarial-trained methods. We first use the IB theory to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaoyun Xu , Guilherme Perin , Stjepan Picek

This paper addresses significant obstacles that arise from the widespread use of machine learning models in the insurance industry, with a specific focus on promoting fairness. The initial challenge lies in effectively leveraging unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Romuald Elie , Caroline Hillairet , François Hu , Marc Juillard

We address the problem of fair classification in settings where data is scarce and unbalanced across demographic groups. Such low-data regimes are common in domains like medical imaging, where false negatives can have fatal consequences. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jonathan Rystrøm , Zihao Fu , Chris Russell

Concerns about algorithmic bias and fairness have increased as artificial intelligence has been incorporated into high-stakes decision-making. Traditional Naive Bayes classifiers, while efficient and interpretable, lack fairness-awareness…

Machine learning based predictions are increasingly used in sensitive decision-making applications that directly affect our lives. This has led to extensive research into ensuring the fairness of classifiers. Beyond just fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ainhize Barrainkua , Giovanni De Toni , Jose Antonio Lozano , Novi Quadrianto

We present a framework for quantifying and mitigating algorithmic bias in mechanisms designed for ranking individuals, typically used as part of web-scale search and recommendation systems. We first propose complementary measures to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Sahin Cem Geyik , Stuart Ambler , Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Although link prediction on graphs has achieved great success with the development of graph neural networks (GNNs), the potential robustness under the edge noise is still less investigated. To close this gap, we first conduct an empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhanke Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Jiaxu Liu , Xiawei Guo , Quanming Yao , Li He , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng , Bo Han

Ensuring trustworthiness in machine learning -- by balancing utility, fairness, and privacy -- remains a critical challenge, particularly in representation learning. In this work, we investigate a family of closely related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 João Machado de Freitas , Bernhard C. Geiger

We study the problem of fair binary classification using the notion of Equal Opportunity. It requires the true positive rate to distribute equally across the sensitive groups. Within this setting we show that the fair optimal classifier is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Evgenii Chzhen , Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri , Luca Oneto , Massimiliano Pontil

Trustworthy machine learning in healthcare requires strong predictive performance, fairness, and explanations. While it is known that improving fairness can affect predictive performance, little is known about how fairness improvements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Joshua Wolff Anderson , Shyam Visweswaran

As machine learning methods gain prominence within clinical decision-making, addressing fairness concerns becomes increasingly urgent. Despite considerable work dedicated to detecting and ameliorating algorithmic bias, today's methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Charles Jones , Daniel C. Castro , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Ozan Oktay , Melissa McCradden , Ben Glocker

Fairness in machine learning has received considerable attention. However, most studies on fair learning focus on either supervised learning or unsupervised learning. Very few consider semi-supervised settings. Yet, in reality, most machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Mengde Han , Jing Li , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Because machine learning has significantly improved efficiency and convenience in the society, it's increasingly used to assist or replace human decision-making. However, the data-based pattern makes related algorithms learn and even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingran Yang , Min Zhang , Lingfeng Zhang , Zhaohui Wang , Yonggang Zhang

Fairness is an important topic for medical image analysis, driven by the challenge of unbalanced training data among diverse target groups and the societal demand for equitable medical quality. In response to this issue, our research adopts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Wenyi Li , Haoran Xu , Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Mengyu Wang , Hao Zhao

In this work, we generalize the information bottleneck (IB) approach to the multi-view learning context. The exponentially growing complexity of the optimal representation motivates the development of two novel formulations with more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Teng-Hui Huang , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal

AI fairness, also known as algorithmic fairness, aims to ensure that algorithms operate without bias or discrimination towards any individual or group. Among various AI algorithms, the Fair Representation Learning (FRL) approach has gained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Insung Kong , Kunwoong Kim , Yongdai Kim

Due to the recent cases of algorithmic bias in data-driven decision-making, machine learning methods are being put under the microscope in order to understand the root cause of these biases and how to correct them. Here, we consider a basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-25 L. Elisa Celis , Amit Deshpande , Tarun Kathuria , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

In recent years, machine learning has begun automating decision making in fields as varied as college admissions, credit lending, and criminal sentencing. The socially sensitive nature of some of these applications together with increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Connor Lawless , Oktay Gunluk

Recently, much attention has been paid to the societal impact of AI, especially concerns regarding its fairness. A growing body of research has identified unfair AI systems and proposed methods to debias them, yet many challenges remain.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ziqian Zeng , Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Naher Keya , James Foulds , Yangqiu Song , Shimei Pan

In algorithmically fair prediction problems, a standard goal is to ensure the equality of fairness metrics across multiple overlapping groups simultaneously. We reconsider this standard fair classification problem using a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Forest Yang , Moustapha Cisse , Sanmi Koyejo