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This paper provides a comprehensive survey of Machine Learning Testing (ML testing) research. It covers 144 papers on testing properties (e.g., correctness, robustness, and fairness), testing components (e.g., the data, learning program,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Lei Ma , Yang Liu

As machine learning is increasingly used to make real-world decisions, recent research efforts aim to define and ensure fairness in algorithmic decision making. Existing methods often assume a fixed set of observable features to define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 YooJung Choi , Golnoosh Farnadi , Behrouz Babaki , Guy Van den Broeck

In recent years fairness in machine learning (ML) has emerged as a highly active area of research and development. Most define fairness in simple terms, where fairness means reducing gaps in performance or outcomes between demographic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Brent Mittelstadt , Sandra Wachter , Chris Russell

There has been a recent critical need to study fairness and bias in machine learning (ML) algorithms. Since there is clearly no one-size-fits-all solution to fairness, ML methods should be developed alongside bias mitigation strategies that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Lara Kassab , Erin George , Deanna Needell , Haowen Geng , Nika Jafar Nia , Aoxi Li

Bias in computer vision models remains a significant challenge, often resulting in unfair, unreliable, and non-generalizable AI systems. Although research into bias mitigation has intensified, progress continues to be hindered by fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

The ethical concept of fairness has recently been applied in machine learning (ML) settings to describe a wide range of constraints and objectives. When considering the relevance of ethical concepts to subset selection problems, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Margaret Mitchell , Dylan Baker , Nyalleng Moorosi , Emily Denton , Ben Hutchinson , Alex Hanna , Timnit Gebru , Jamie Morgenstern

Large Language Models (LLMs) inherit societal biases from their training data, potentially leading to harmful or unfair outputs. While various techniques aim to mitigate these biases, their effects are often evaluated only along the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shireen Chand , Faith Baca , Emilio Ferrara

As machine learning systems become increasingly integrated into high-stakes decision-making processes, ensuring fairness in algorithmic outcomes has become a critical concern. Methods to mitigate bias typically fall into three categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Brodie Oldfield , Ziqi Xu , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

Fairness in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models is becoming critically important, especially as decisions made by these systems impact diverse groups. In education, a vital sector for all countries, the widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nga Pham , Minh Kha Do , Tran Vu Dai , Pham Ngoc Hung , Anh Nguyen-Duc

In this paper, we deal with bias mitigation techniques that remove specific data points from the training set to aim for a fair representation of the population in that set. Machine learning models are trained on these pre-processed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Manh Khoi Duong , Stefan Conrad

Numerous Machine Learning (ML) bias-related failures in recent years have led to scrutiny of how companies incorporate aspects of transparency and accountability in their ML lifecycles. Companies have a responsibility to monitor ML…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Emily Dodwell , Cheryl Flynn , Balachander Krishnamurthy , Subhabrata Majumdar , Ritwik Mitra

Ensuring fairness has emerged as one of the primary concerns in AI and its related algorithms. Over time, the field of machine learning fairness has evolved to address these issues. This paper provides an extensive overview of this field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Quan Zhou

As machine learning increasingly influences critical domains such as credit underwriting, public policy, and talent acquisition, ensuring compliance with fairness constraints is both a legal and ethical imperative. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Léandre Eberhard , Nirek Sharma , Filipp Shelobolin , Aalok Ganesh Shanbhag

Algorithmic bias is of increasing concern, both to the research community, and society at large. Bias in AI is more abstract and unintuitive than traditional forms of discrimination and can be more difficult to detect and mitigate. A clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Cody Blakeney , Gentry Atkinson , Nathaniel Huish , Yan Yan , Vangelis Metris , Ziliang Zong

As machine learning (ML) systems are increasingly adopted across industries, addressing fairness and bias has become essential. While many solutions focus on ethical challenges in ML, recent studies highlight that data itself is a major…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Gianmario Voria , Rebecca Di Matteo , Giammaria Giordano , Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba

The potential for machine learning (ML) systems to amplify social inequities and unfairness is receiving increasing popular and academic attention. A surge of recent work has focused on the development of algorithmic tools to assess and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Kenneth Holstein , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan , Hal Daumé , Miro Dudík , Hanna Wallach

A multitude of work has shown that machine learning-based medical diagnosis systems can be biased against certain subgroups of people. This has motivated a growing number of bias mitigation algorithms that aim to address fairness issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yongshuo Zong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy Hospedales

Speaker recognition is increasingly used in several everyday applications including smart speakers, customer care centers and other speech-driven analytics. It is crucial to accurately evaluate and mitigate biases present in machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Raghuveer Peri , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

While interest in the application of machine learning to improve healthcare has grown tremendously in recent years, a number of barriers prevent deployment in medical practice. A notable concern is the potential to exacerbate entrenched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Isabel Chien , Nina Deliu , Richard E. Turner , Adrian Weller , Sofia S. Villar , Niki Kilbertus

Despite the constant development of new bias mitigation methods for machine learning, no method consistently succeeds, and a fundamental question remains unanswered: when and why do bias mitigation techniques fail? In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Anissa Alloula , Charles Jones , Ben Glocker , Bartłomiej W. Papież