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Fairness-awareness has emerged as an essential building block for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in real applications. In many cases, inequity in performance is due to the change in distribution over different regions. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhihao Wang , Yiqun Xie , Zhili Li , Xiaowei Jia , Zhe Jiang , Aolin Jia , Shuo Xu

Machine Learning (ML) systems are increasingly used to support decision-making processes that affect individuals. However, these systems often rely on biased data, which can lead to unfair outcomes against specific groups. With the growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Joana Simões , João Correia

Machine Learning (ML) models are widely employed to drive many modern data systems. While they are undeniably powerful tools, ML models often demonstrate imbalanced performance and unfair behaviors. The root of this problem often lies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ke Yang , Alexandra Meliou

The escalating integration of machine learning in high-stakes fields such as healthcare raises substantial concerns about model fairness. We propose an interpretable framework - Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM), to improve model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Mingxuan Liu , Yilin Ning , Yuhe Ke , Yuqing Shang , Bibhas Chakraborty , Marcus Eng Hock Ong , Roger Vaughan , Nan Liu

Decision support systems (e.g., for ecological conservation) and autonomous systems (e.g., adaptive controllers in smart cities) start to be deployed in real applications. Although their operations often impact many users or stakeholders,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Paul Weng

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in more applications, the need to consider and mitigate biases from the learned models has followed. Most works in developing fair learning algorithms focus on the offline setting. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Wenbin Zhang , Albert Bifet , Xiangliang Zhang , Jeremy C. Weiss , Wolfgang Nejdl

Multiobjective evolutionary learning (MOEL) has demonstrated its advantages of training fairer machine learning models considering a predefined set of conflicting objectives, including accuracy and different fairness measures. Recent works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Qingquan Zhang , Jialin Liu , Xin Yao

With growing awareness of societal impact of artificial intelligence, fairness has become an important aspect of machine learning algorithms. The issue is that human biases towards certain groups of population, defined by sensitive features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Andrija Petrović , Mladen Nikolić , Sandro Radovanović , Boris Delibašić , Miloš Jovanović

Despite frequent double-blind review, demographic biases of authors still disadvantage the underrepresented groups. We present Fair-PaperRec, a MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP)-based model that addresses demographic disparities in post-review…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi , Susan Gauch

In an era where AI-driven hiring is transforming recruitment practices, concerns about fairness and bias have become increasingly important. To explore these issues, we introduce a benchmark, FAIRE (Fairness Assessment In Resume…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Athena Wen , Tanush Patil , Ansh Saxena , Yicheng Fu , Sean O'Brien , Kevin Zhu

Fair representation learning provides an effective way of enforcing fairness constraints without compromising utility for downstream users. A desirable family of such fairness constraints, each requiring similar treatment for similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Anian Ruoss , Mislav Balunović , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

The wide spread usage of automated data-driven decision support systems has raised a lot of concerns regarding accountability and fairness of the employed models in the absence of human supervision. Existing fairness-aware approaches tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Vasileios Iosifidis , Thi Ngoc Han Tran , Eirini Ntoutsi

Despite rapid advances in speech recognition, current models remain brittle to superficial perturbations to their inputs. Small amounts of noise can destroy the performance of an otherwise state-of-the-art model. To harden models against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Zachary C. Lipton

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

Fairness in machine learning is more important than ever as ethical concerns continue to grow. Individual fairness demands that individuals differing only in sensitive attributes receive the same outcomes. However, commonly used machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruihan Zhang , Jun Sun

Incremental learning is useful if an AI agent needs to integrate data from a stream. The problem is non trivial if the agent runs on a limited computational budget and has a bounded memory of past data. In a deep learning approach, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu

As the operations of autonomous systems generally affect simultaneously several users, it is crucial that their designs account for fairness considerations. In contrast to standard (deep) reinforcement learning (RL), we investigate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Umer Siddique , Paul Weng , Matthieu Zimmer

In the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, machine perception is becoming paramount to achieving increased performance. Image classification systems are becoming increasingly integral to various applications, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Javon Hickmon

For future learning systems, incremental learning is desirable because it allows for: efficient resource usage by eliminating the need to retrain from scratch at the arrival of new data; reduced memory usage by preventing or limiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Marc Masana , Xialei Liu , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Mikel Menta , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Joost van de Weijer

Automated data-driven decision making systems are increasingly being used to assist, or even replace humans in many settings. These systems function by learning from historical decisions, often taken by humans. In order to maximize the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-10 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi