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There have been growing concerns around high-stake applications that rely on models trained with biased data, which consequently produce biased predictions, often harming the most vulnerable. In particular, biased medical data could cause…

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Artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), are increasingly being employed in high-stakes decisions that impact both individuals and society at large, often without adequate safeguards to ensure safety,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-24 N. Zöller , J. Berger , I. Lin , N. Fu , J. Komarneni , G. Barabucci , K. Laskowski , V. Shia , B. Harack , E. A. Chu , V. Trianni , R. H. J. M. Kurvers , S. M. Herzog

The growing integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into critical societal domains has raised concerns about embedded biases that can perpetuate stereotypes and undermine fairness. Such biases may stem from historical inequalities in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Riccardo Cantini , Alessio Orsino , Massimo Ruggiero , Domenico Talia

Much attention and concern has been raised recently about bias and the use of machine learning algorithms in healthcare, especially as it relates to perpetuating racial discrimination and health disparities. Following an initial system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jill A. Kuhlberg , Irene Headen , Ellis A. Ballard , Donald Martin

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as clinical decision support and medical documentation. However, the robustness of these models against subtle linguistic variations, specifically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jen-tse Huang , Didi Zhou , Faith Kamau , Amy Oh , Anne R. Links , Mark Dredze , Mary Catherine Beach , Somnath Saha

Stroke is an acute cerebrovascular disease, and timely diagnosis significantly improves patient survival. However, existing automated diagnosis methods suffer from fairness issues across demographic groups, potentially exacerbating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tommy Sha , Zhan Cheng , Haotian Zhai , Xuwei Ding , Junnan Li , Haixiang Tang , Zaoting Sun , Yanchuan Tang , Yongzhe , Yi , Yuan Gao , Anhao Li

Large amounts of labeled data are urgently required for the training of robust text recognizers. However, collecting handwriting data of diverse styles, along with an immense lexicon, is considerably expensive. Although data synthesis is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Canjie Luo , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Zhe Li , Dezhi Peng

Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation (UGDA) leverages labeled source domain graphs to achieve effective performance in unlabeled target domains despite distribution shifts. However, existing methods often yield suboptimal results due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Junyu Luo , Yuhao Tang , Yiwei Fu , Xiao Luo , Zhizhuo Kou , Zhiping Xiao , Wei Ju , Wentao Zhang , Ming Zhang

There has been an increase in research in developing machine learning models for mental health detection or prediction in recent years due to increased mental health issues in society. Effective use of mental health prediction or detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Khadija Zanna , Kusha Sridhar , Han Yu , Akane Sano

This paper aims to bring together the disciplines of social science (SS) and computer science (CS) in the design and implementation of a novel multidisciplinary framework for systematic, transparent, ethically-informed, and bias-aware…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sacha Hasan , Mehdi Rizvi , Yingfang Yuan , Kefan Chen , Lynne Baillie , Wei Pang

A decade of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) has opened new opportunities for clinical decision support systems (CDSS), with large language models (LLMs) demonstrating strong reasoning abilities on timely medical tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Heejoon Koo

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs), into the clinical diagnosis process offers significant potential to improve the efficiency and accessibility of medical care. While LLMs have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingyu Derek Ma , Chenchen Ye , Yu Yan , Xiaoxuan Wang , Peipei Ping , Timothy S Chang , Wei Wang

The use of machine learning to guide clinical decision making has the potential to worsen existing health disparities. Several recent works frame the problem as that of algorithmic fairness, a framework that has attracted considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-16 Stephen R. Pfohl , Agata Foryciarz , Nigam H. Shah

Objective: Algorithmic fairness is essential for equitable and trustworthy machine learning in healthcare. Most fairness tools emphasize single-axis demographic comparisons and may miss compounded disparities affecting intersectional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nick Souligne , Vignesh Subbian

We present SLEAN (Simple Lightweight Ensemble Analysis Network), a deterministic framework for coordinating multiple LLM providers through text-based prompt orchestration. Unlike complex multi-agent systems requiring specialized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Matheus J. T. Vargas

Social biases can manifest in language agency. However, very limited research has investigated such biases in Large Language Model (LLM)-generated content. In addition, previous works often rely on string-matching techniques to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yixin Wan , Kai-Wei Chang

When reading medical images such as a computed tomography (CT) scan, radiologists generally search across the image to find lesions, characterize and measure them, and then describe them in the radiological report. To automate this process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ke Yan , Youbao Tang , Yifan Peng , Veit Sandfort , Mohammadhadi Bagheri , Zhiyong Lu , Ronald M. Summers

Machine learning (ML) is playing an increasingly important role in rendering decisions that affect a broad range of groups in society. ML models inform decisions in criminal justice, the extension of credit in banking, and the hiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Damien Dablain , Bartosz Krawczyk , Nitesh Chawla

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly integrates into our daily lives, fairness has emerged as a critical concern, particularly in medical AI, where datasets often reflect inherent biases due to social factors like the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yi Sheng , Junhuan Yang , Jinyang Li , James Alaina , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

As more industries integrate machine learning into socially sensitive decision processes like hiring, loan-approval, and parole-granting, we are at risk of perpetuating historical and contemporary socioeconomic disparities. This is a…

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