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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great power in modeling graph structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs may make predictions biased on protected sensitive attributes, e.g., skin color and gender.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

While deep learning (DL) approaches are reaching human-level performance for many tasks, including for diagnostics AI, the focus is now on challenges possibly affecting DL deployment, including AI privacy, domain generalization, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Neil Joshi , Phil Burlina

Fairness and accountability are two essential pillars for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. However, the existing AI model may be biased in its decision marking. To tackle this issue, we propose an adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xiaoxiao Li , Ziteng Cui , Yifan Wu , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada

Considering the existence of very large amount of available data repositories and reach to the very advanced system of hardware, systems meant for facial identification ave evolved enormously over the past few decades. Sketch recognition is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Sukhada Chokkadi , Sannidhan M S , Sudeepa K B , Abhir Bhandary

Anomaly detection aims to find instances that are considered unusual and is a fundamental problem of data science. Recently, deep anomaly detection methods were shown to achieve superior results particularly in complex data such as images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

Numerous studies have revealed that deep learning-based medical image classification models may exhibit bias towards specific demographic attributes, such as race, gender, and age. Existing bias mitigation methods often achieve high level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Qingpeng Kong , Ching-Hao Chiu , Dewen Zeng , Yu-Jen Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho , Jingtong hu , Yiyu Shi

The ability to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with constraints is instrumental in improving the fairness of modern machine-learning models. Many algorithms have been analysed in recent years, and yet there is no standard, widely accepted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Andrii Kliachkin , Jana Lepšová , Gilles Bareilles , Jakub Mareček

Successful deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in various settings has led to numerous positive outcomes for individuals and society. However, AI systems have also been shown to harm parts of the population due to biased predictions.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ondrej Bohdal , Timothy Hospedales , Philip H. S. Torr , Fazl Barez

Evaluating fairness in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) demands rigorous benchmarks that reflect real-world complexities, yet existing assessments remain limited by superficial dataset diversity and idealized hardware assumptions. This work…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hudi He , Fukun Wang , Zhe Wang , Xinyi Wang , Shuhan Ye , Jiarui Liu , Qing Qing , Ziqi Xu , Xikun Zhang , Renqiang Luo

Many works have shown that deep learning-based medical image classification models can exhibit bias toward certain demographic attributes like race, gender, and age. Existing bias mitigation methods primarily focus on learning debiased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Despite being responsible for state-of-the-art results in several computer vision and natural language processing tasks, neural networks have faced harsh criticism due to some of their current shortcomings. One of them is that neural…

In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to thoroughly explore dataset features that introduce bias in downstream machine-learning tasks. Depending on the data format, we use different techniques to map instances into a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Samira Maghool , Paolo Ceravolo

In this paper, we address the limitations of existing text-to-image diffusion models in generating demographically fair results when given human-related descriptions. These models often struggle to disentangle the target language context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jia Li , Lijie Hu , Jingfeng Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Hua Zhang , Di Wang

Although deep learning (DL) models have shown great success in many medical image analysis tasks, deployment of the resulting models into real clinical contexts requires: (1) that they exhibit robustness and fairness across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Raghav Mehta , Changjian Shui , Tal Arbel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become increasingly important due to their representational power and state-of-the-art predictive performance on many fundamental learning tasks. Despite this success, GNNs suffer from fairness issues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 April Chen , Ryan A. Rossi , Namyong Park , Puja Trivedi , Yu Wang , Tong Yu , Sungchul Kim , Franck Dernoncourt , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Graph clustering plays a pivotal role in unsupervised learning methods like spectral clustering, yet traditional methods for graph clustering often perpetuate bias through unfair graph constructions that may underrepresent some groups. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Adithya K Moorthy , V Vijaya Saradhi , Bhanu Prasad

We propose a method for formally certifying and quantifying individual fairness of deep neural networks (DNN). Individual fairness guarantees that any two individuals who are identical except for a legally protected attribute (e.g., gender…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Brian Hyeongseok Kim , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

Deep learning (DL) reconstruction particularly of MRI has led to improvements in image fidelity and reduction of acquisition time. In neuroimaging, DL methods can reconstruct high-quality images from undersampled data. However, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Yuning Du , Yuyang Xue , Rohan Dharmakumar , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Despite remarkable success in diverse web-based applications, Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) inherit and further exacerbate historical discrimination and social stereotypes, which critically hinder their deployments in high-stake domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy

Fairness in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNs) becomes a more and more important concern as GCNs are adopted in many crucial applications. Societal biases against sensitive groups may exist in many real world graphs. GCNs trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Zicun Cong , Shi Baoxu , Shan Li , Jaewon Yang , Qi He , Jian Pei