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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

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

Fairness has become increasingly pivotal in medical image recognition. However, without mitigating bias, deploying unfair medical AI systems could harm the interests of underprivileged populations. In this paper, we observe that while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ching-Hao Chiu , Hao-Wei Chung , Yu-Jen Chen , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Although deep face recognition has achieved impressive progress in recent years, controversy has arisen regarding discrimination based on skin tone, questioning their deployment into real-world scenarios. In this paper, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Mei Wang , Yaobin Zhang , Weihong Deng

Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown remarkable promise in dermatology, offering accurate and non-invasive diagnosis of skin cancer. While extensive research has addressed skin tone-related bias, gender bias in dermatologic AI remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Mingcheng Zhu , Mingxuan Liu , Han Yuan , Yilin Ning , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu , Nan Liu

Numerous methods have been implemented that pursue fairness with respect to sensitive features by mitigating biases in machine learning. Yet, the problem settings that each method tackles vary significantly, including the stage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

Interpretability and fairness are critical in computer vision and machine learning applications, in particular when dealing with human outcomes, e.g. inviting or not inviting for a job interview based on application materials that may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Novi Quadrianto , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Oliver Thomas

Generalizing to out-of-distribution data while being aware of model fairness is a significant and challenging problem in meta-learning. The goal of this problem is to find a set of fairness-aware invariant parameters of classifier that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kai Jiang , Chen Zhao , Haoliang Wang , Feng Chen

Modern machine learning (ML) models are becoming increasingly popular and are widely used in decision-making systems. However, studies have shown critical issues of ML discrimination and unfairness, which hinder their adoption on high-stake…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yueqing Liang , Canyu Chen , Tian Tian , Kai Shu

Although deep learning has demonstrated astonishing performance in many applications, there are still concerns about its dependability. One desirable property of deep learning applications with societal impact is fairness (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peixin Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Xinyu Wang , Guoliang Dong , Xingen Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong

Fairness-aware learning aims to mitigate discrimination against specific protected social groups (e.g., those categorized by gender, ethnicity, age) while minimizing predictive performance loss. Despite efforts to improve fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Kewen Peng , Yicheng Yang , Hao Zhuo

The widespread use of ML-based decision making in domains with high societal impact such as recidivism, job hiring and loan credit has raised a lot of concerns regarding potential discrimination. In particular, in certain cases it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Vasileios Iosifidis , Eirini Ntoutsi

Fairness is a widely discussed topic in recommender systems, but its practical implementation faces challenges in defining sensitive features while maintaining recommendation accuracy. We propose feature fairness as the foundation to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Hengchang Hu , Yiming Cao , Zhankui He , Samson Tan , Min-Yen Kan

This work focuses on improving the performance and fairness of Federated Learning (FL) in non IID settings by enhancing model aggregation and boosting the training of underperforming clients. We propose FeDABoost, a novel FL framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tharuka Kasthuri Arachchige , Veselka Boeva , Shahrooz Abghari

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in image classification and segmentation tasks. However, fairness concerns persist, as models often exhibit biases that disproportionately affect demographic groups defined by sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Milad Masroor , Tahir Hassan , Yu Tian , Kevin Wells , David Rosewarne , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

AI-based systems have achieved high accuracy in skin disease diagnostics but often exhibit biases across demographic groups, leading to inequitable healthcare outcomes and diminished patient trust. Most existing bias mitigation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Gelei Xu , Yuying Duan , Zheyuan Liu , Xueyang Li , Meng Jiang , Michael Lemmon , Wei Jin , Yiyu Shi

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius

Improving fairness between privileged and less-privileged sensitive attribute groups (e.g, {race, gender}) has attracted lots of attention. To enhance the model performs uniformly well in different sensitive attributes, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qi Qi , Shervin Ardeshir , Yi Xu , Tianbao Yang

Deep metric learning (DML) enables learning with less supervision through its emphasis on the similarity structure of representations. There has been much work on improving generalization of DML in settings like zero-shot retrieval, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Natalie Dullerud , Karsten Roth , Kimia Hamidieh , Nicolas Papernot , Marzyeh Ghassemi

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