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Existing theoretical work on Bayes-optimal fair classifiers usually considers a single (binary) sensitive feature. In practice, individuals are often defined by multiple sensitive features. In this paper, we characterize the Bayes-optimal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Yi Yang , Yinghui Huang , Xiangyu Chang

Developing AI tools that preserve fairness is of critical importance, specifically in high-stakes applications such as those in healthcare. However, health AI models' overall prediction performance is often prioritized over the possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Raphael Poulain , Mirza Farhan Bin Tarek , Rahmatollah Beheshti

Algorithmic bias in medical imaging can perpetuate health disparities, yet its causes remain poorly understood in segmentation tasks. While fairness has been extensively studied in classification, segmentation remains underexplored despite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Aditya Parikh , Sneha Das , Aasa Feragen

Deep learning crime predictive tools use past crime data and additional behavioral datasets to forecast future crimes. Nevertheless, these tools have been shown to suffer from unfair predictions across minority racial and ethnic groups.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiahui Wu , Vanessa Frias-Martinez

Purpose: Limited studies exploring concrete methods or approaches to tackle and enhance model fairness in the radiology domain. Our proposed AI model utilizes supervised contrastive learning to minimize bias in CXR diagnosis. Materials and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Mingquan Lin , Tianhao Li , Zhaoyi Sun , Gregory Holste , Ying Ding , Fei Wang , George Shih , Yifan Peng

The machine learning community has become increasingly concerned with the potential for bias and discrimination in predictive models. This has motivated a growing line of work on what it means for a classification procedure to be "fair." In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Geoff Pleiss , Manish Raghavan , Felix Wu , Jon Kleinberg , Kilian Q. Weinberger

As artificial intelligence plays an increasingly substantial role in decisions affecting humans and society, the accountability of automated decision systems has been receiving increasing attention from researchers and practitioners.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Furkan Gursoy , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Recently, there have been several successful deep learning approaches for automatically classifying chest X-ray images into different disease categories. However, there is not yet a comprehensive vulnerability analysis of these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Arkadeep Das , Ghassan Hamarneh

Machine learning systems are notoriously prone to biased predictions about certain demographic groups, leading to algorithmic fairness issues. Due to privacy concerns and data quality problems, some demographic information may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yingtao Luo , Zhixun Li , Qiang Liu , Jun Zhu

Ensuring consistent performance across diverse populations and incorporating fairness into machine learning models are crucial for advancing medical image diagnostics and promoting equitable healthcare. However, many databases do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Dilermando Queiroz , André Anjos , Lilian Berton

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known weakness of Deep Neural Networks. While most of the studies focus on natural images with standardized benchmarks like ImageNet and CIFAR, little research has considered real world…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Michail Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Many set selection and ranking algorithms have recently been enhanced with diversity constraints that aim to explicitly increase representation of historically disadvantaged populations, or to improve the overall representativeness of the…

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AI-based systems have achieved high accuracy in skin disease diagnostics but often exhibit biases across demographic groups, leading to inequitable healthcare outcomes and diminished patient trust. Most existing bias mitigation methods…

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Deep learning is increasingly being used in high-stake decision making applications that affect individual lives. However, deep learning models might exhibit algorithmic discrimination behaviors with respect to protected groups, potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengnan Du , Fan Yang , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Real-life tools for decision-making in many critical domains are based on ranking results. With the increasing awareness of algorithmic fairness, recent works have presented measures for fairness in ranking. Many of those definitions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jinyang Li , Yuval Moskovitch , H. V. Jagadish

As machine learning (ML) systems increasingly shape access to credit, jobs, and other opportunities, the fairness of algorithmic decisions has become a central concern. Yet it remains unclear when enforcing fairness constraints in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Yi Yang , Xiangyu Chang , Pei-yu Chen

The integration of machine learning models in various real-world applications is becoming more prevalent to assist humans in their daily decision-making tasks as a result of recent advancements in this field. However, it has been discovered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ramtin Hosseini , Li Zhang , Bhanu Garg , Pengtao Xie

Despite the progress made in deepfake detection research, recent studies have shown that biases in the training data for these detectors can result in varying levels of performance across different demographic groups, such as race and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Uzoamaka Ezeakunne , Chrisantus Eze , Xiuwen Liu

The adoption of automated, data-driven decision making in an ever expanding range of applications has raised concerns about its potential unfairness towards certain social groups. In this context, a number of recent studies have focused on…