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Ensemble learning has gain attention in resent deep learning research as a way to further boost the accuracy and generalizability of deep neural network (DNN) models. Recent ensemble training method explores different training algorithms or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Jingchi Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li

Ensembles are a straightforward, remarkably effective method for improving the accuracy,calibration, and robustness of models on classification tasks; yet, the reasons that underlie their success remain an active area of research. We build…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Neha Gupta , Jamie Smith , Ben Adlam , Zelda Mariet

This project explores adversarial training techniques to develop fairer Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to mitigate the inherent bias they are known to exhibit. DNNs are susceptible to inheriting bias with respect to sensitive attributes such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Allen Minch , Hung Anh Vu , Anne Marie Warren

Striking an optimal balance between predictive performance and fairness continues to be a fundamental challenge in machine learning. In this work, we propose a post-processing framework that facilitates fairness-aware prediction by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zhouting Zhao , Tin Lok James Ng

Ensembles of neural networks are known to be much more robust and accurate than individual networks. However, training multiple deep networks for model averaging is computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a method to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Gao Huang , Yixuan Li , Geoff Pleiss , Zhuang Liu , John E. Hopcroft , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Automated Machine Learning with ensembling (or AutoML with ensembling) seeks to automatically build ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to achieve qualitative predictions. Ensemble of DNNs are well known to avoid over-fitting but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pierrick Pochelu , Serge G. Petiton , Bruno Conche

Deep neural network ensembles hold the potential of improving generalization performance for complex learning tasks. This paper presents formal analysis and empirical evaluation to show that heterogeneous deep ensembles with high ensemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yanzhao Wu , Ka-Ho Chow , Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

Ensembles of neural networks (NNs) have long been used to estimate predictive uncertainty; a small number of NNs are trained from different initialisations and sometimes on differing versions of the dataset. The variance of the ensemble's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Tim Pearce , Mohamed Zaki , Andy Neely

Fairness is a fundamental requirement for trustworthy and human-centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) tend to make unfair predictions when the training data are collected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Ruichen Yao , Ziteng Cui , Xiaoxiao Li , Lin Gu

Deep learning has become very popular for tasks such as predictive modeling and pattern recognition in handling big data. Deep learning is a powerful machine learning method that extracts lower level features and feeds them forward for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Steven Young , Tamer Abdou , Ayse Bener

Crowdsourced machine learning on competition platforms such as Kaggle is a popular and often effective method for generating accurate models. Typically, teams vie for the most accurate model, as measured by overall error on a holdout set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ira Globus-Harris , Declan Harrison , Michael Kearns , Pietro Perona , Aaron Roth

As relevant examples such as the future criminal detection software [1] show, fairness of AI-based and social domain affecting decision support tools constitutes an important area of research. In this contribution, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Janine Strotherm , Barbara Hammer

We address the problem of fair classification in settings where data is scarce and unbalanced across demographic groups. Such low-data regimes are common in domains like medical imaging, where false negatives can have fatal consequences. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jonathan Rystrøm , Zihao Fu , Chris Russell

Consider a binary decision making process where a single machine learning classifier replaces a multitude of humans. We raise questions about the resulting loss of diversity in the decision making process. We study the potential benefits of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-03 Nina Grgić-Hlača , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adrian Weller

Ensemble methods are known for enhancing the accuracy and robustness of machine learning models by combining multiple base learners. However, standard approaches like greedy or random ensembling often fall short, as they assume a constant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sebastian Pineda Arango , Maciej Janowski , Lennart Purucker , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Josif Grabocka

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision, natural language processing, and other areas. However, training and fine-tuning a deep learning model is computationally intensive and time-consuming. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

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

The concern about hidden discrimination in machine learning models is growing, as their widespread real-world applications increasingly impact human lives. Various techniques, including commonly used group fairness measures and several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yijun Bian

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

Ensembling multiple predictions is a widely used technique for improving the accuracy of various machine learning tasks. One obvious drawback of ensembling is its higher execution cost during inference. In this paper, we first describe our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Hiroshi Inoue