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In high-stakes settings where machine learning models are used to automate decision-making about individuals, the presence of algorithmic bias can exacerbate systemic harm to certain subgroups of people. These biases often stem from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Erin Tan , Judy Hanwen Shen , Irene Y. Chen

Our society collects data on people for a wide range of applications, from building a census for policy evaluation to running meaningful clinical trials. To collect data, we typically sample individuals with the goal of accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Victor Borza , Andrew Estornell , Chien-Ju Ho , Bradley Malin , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

As Machine Learning technologies become increasingly used in contexts that affect citizens, companies as well as researchers need to be confident that their application of these methods will not have unexpected social implications, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Simon Caton , Christian Haas

Applying standard machine learning approaches for classification can produce unequal results across different demographic groups. When then used in real-world settings, these inequities can have negative societal impacts. This has motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Preston Putzel , Scott Lee

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are now being utilized in all facets of our lives such as healthcare, education and employment. Since they are used in numerous sensitive environments and make decisions that can be life altering,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Tahsin Alamgir Kheya , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Despite the development of effective deepfake detectors in recent years, recent studies have demonstrated that biases in the data used to train these detectors can lead to disparities in detection accuracy across different races and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Yan Ju , Shu Hu , Shan Jia , George H. Chen , Siwei Lyu

The potential for learned models to amplify existing societal biases has been broadly recognized. Fairness-aware classifier constraints, which apply equality metrics of performance across subgroups defined on sensitive attributes such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Ananth Balashankar , Alyssa Lees , Chris Welty , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

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

Algorithmic fairness has been a serious concern and received lots of interest in machine learning community. In this paper, we focus on the bipartite ranking scenario, where the instances come from either the positive or negative class and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sen Cui , Weishen Pan , Changshui Zhang , Fei Wang

We extend the notion of minimax fairness in supervised learning problems to its natural conclusion: lexicographic minimax fairness (or lexifairness for short). Informally, given a collection of demographic groups of interest, minimax…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Emily Diana , Wesley Gill , Ira Globus-Harris , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly approaches human-level performance in medical imaging, it is crucial that it does not exacerbate or propagate healthcare disparities. Prior research has established AI's capacity to infer demographic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuzhe Yang , Haoran Zhang , Judy W Gichoya , Dina Katabi , Marzyeh Ghassemi

In machine learning, training data often capture the behaviour of multiple subgroups of some underlying human population. This behaviour can often be modelled as observations of an unknown dynamical system with an unobserved state. When the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Quan Zhou , Jakub Marecek , Robert N. Shorten

The ethical integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare necessitates addressing fairness-a concept that is highly context-specific across medical fields. Extensive studies have been conducted to expand the technical components…

Algorithms and models are increasingly deployed to inform decisions about people, inevitably affecting their lives. As a consequence, those in charge of developing these models must carefully evaluate their impact on different groups of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Alessandro Fabris , Andrea Esuli , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Fairness in machine learning has attained significant focus due to the widespread application in high-stake decision-making tasks. Unregulated machine learning classifiers can exhibit bias towards certain demographic groups in data, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Debabrota Basu , Kuldeep S. Meel

The definition and implementation of fairness in automated decisions has been extensively studied by the research community. Yet, there hides fallacious reasoning, misleading assertions, and questionable practices at the foundations of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Robert Lee Poe , Soumia Zohra El Mestari

As AI becomes prevalent in high-risk domains and decision-making, it is essential to test for potential harms and biases. This urgency is reflected by the global emergence of AI regulations that emphasise fairness and adequate testing, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Varsha Ramineni , Hossein A. Rahmani , Emine Yilmaz , David Barber

The lack of bias management in Recommender Systems leads to minority groups receiving unfair recommendations. Moreover, the trade-off between equity and precision makes it difficult to obtain recommendations that meet both criteria. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jesús Bobadilla , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Ángel González-Prieto , Fernando Ortega

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated superior performance across various visual tasks including medical image classification. However, fairness concerns, including demographic biases, have received limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chenlang Yi , Zizhan Xiong , Qi Qi , Xiyuan Wei , Girish Bathla , Ching-Long Lin , Bobak Jack Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

Fair machine learning works have been focusing on the development of equitable algorithms that address discrimination of certain groups. Yet, many of these fairness-aware approaches aim to obtain a unique solution to the problem, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ana Valdivia , Javier Sánchez-Monedero , Jorge Casillas