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Disaggregated performance metrics across demographic groups are a hallmark of fairness assessments in computer vision. These metrics successfully incentivized performance improvements on person-centric tasks such as face analysis and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Melissa Hall , Bobbie Chern , Laura Gustafson , Denisse Ventura , Harshad Kulkarni , Candace Ross , Nicolas Usunier

Following related work in law and policy, two notions of disparity have come to shape the study of fairness in algorithmic decision-making. Algorithms exhibit treatment disparity if they formally treat members of protected subgroups…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-14 Zachary C. Lipton , Alexandra Chouldechova , Julian McAuley

From a safety perspective, a machine learning method embedded in real-world applications is required to distinguish irregular situations. For this reason, there has been a growing interest in the anomaly detection (AD) task. Since we cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 JuneKyu Park , Jeong-Hyeon Moon , Namhyuk Ahn , Kyung-Ah Sohn

Unsupervised feature learning has made great strides with contrastive learning based on instance discrimination and invariant mapping, as benchmarked on curated class-balanced datasets. However, natural data could be highly correlated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xudong Wang , Ziwei Liu , Stella X. Yu

Though machine learning algorithms excel at minimizing the average loss over a population, this might lead to large discrepancies between the losses across groups within the population. To capture this inequality, we introduce and study a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Fereshte Khani , Aditi Raghunathan , Percy Liang

Anomaly detection (AD) is a critical task across domains such as cybersecurity and healthcare. In the unsupervised setting, an effective and theoretically-grounded principle is to train classifiers to distinguish normal data from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-18 Matthew Lau , Tian-Yi Zhou , Xiangchi Yuan , Jizhou Chen , Wenke Lee , Xiaoming Huo

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to detect testing samples far away from the in-distribution (ID) training data, which is crucial for the safe deployment of machine learning models in the real world. Distance-based OOD detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Haodong Lu , Dong Gong , Shuo Wang , Jason Xue , Lina Yao , Kristen Moore

As machine learning models are increasingly embedded into society through high-stakes decision-making, selecting the right algorithm for a given task, audience, and sector presents a critical challenge, particularly in the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hana Samad , Michael Akinwumi , Jameel Khan , Christoph Mügge-Durum , Emmanuel O. Ogundimu

Under normality and homoscedasticity assumptions, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is known to be optimal in terms of minimising the Bayes error for binary classification. In the heteroscedastic case, LDA is not guaranteed to minimise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Kojo Sarfo Gyamfi , James Brusey , Andrew Hunt , Elena Gaura

Using unlabeled data to regularize the machine learning models has demonstrated promise for improving safety and reliability in detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Harnessing the power of unlabeled in-the-wild data is non-trivial due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xuefeng Du , Zhen Fang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Yixuan Li

A growing body of literature in fairness-aware machine learning (fairML) aims to mitigate machine learning (ML)-related unfairness in automated decision-making (ADM) by defining metrics that measure fairness of an ML model and by proposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ludwig Bothmann , Kristina Peters , Bernd Bischl

Multimodal learning enhances the performance of various machine learning tasks by leveraging complementary information across different modalities. However, existing methods often learn multimodal representations that retain substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tong Zhang , Shu Shen , C. L. Philip Chen

Automatic differentiation (AD) is a set of techniques that systematically applies the chain rule to compute the gradients of functions without requiring human intervention. Although the fundamentals of this technology were established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Afif Boudaoud , Alexandru Calotoiu , Marcin Copik , Torsten Hoefler

Recently, advances in machine learning techniques have attracted the attention of the research community to build intrusion detection systems (IDS) that can detect anomalies in the network traffic. Most of the research works, however, do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Tara Salman , Deval Bhamare , Aiman Erbad , Raj Jain , Mohammed Samaka

Large Language Model (LLM) inference systems present significant challenges in statistical performance characterization due to dynamic workload variations, diverse hardware architectures, and complex interactions between model size, batch…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Kaustabha Ray , Nelson Mimura Gonzalez , Bruno Wassermann , Rachel Tzoref-Brill , Dean H. Lorenz

Many state-of-the-art algorithms for solving hard combinatorial problems in artificial intelligence (AI) include elements of stochasticity that lead to high variations in runtime, even for a fixed problem instance. Knowledge about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Katharina Eggensperger , Marius Lindauer , Frank Hutter

The ability to detect objects that are not prevalent in the training set is a critical capability in many 3D applications, including autonomous driving. Machine learning methods for object recognition often assume that all object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zizhao Li , Xueyang Kang , Joseph West , Kourosh Khoshelham

Anomaly detection (AD) is the machine learning task of identifying highly discrepant abnormal samples by solely relying on the consistency of the normal training samples. Under the constraints of a distribution shift, the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 João B. S. Carvalho , Mengtao Zhang , Robin Geyer , Carlos Cotrini , Joachim M. Buhmann

Machine learning models can assign fixed predictions that preclude individuals from changing their outcome. Existing approaches to audit fixed predictions do so on a pointwise basis, which requires access to an existing dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Connor Lawless , Tsui-Wei Weng , Berk Ustun , Madeleine Udell

In [1, 2], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature extraction optimization processes for solving largescale problems and overcoming machine learning limitations. Majority of optimization algorithms that have been introduced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia