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Recent advancements in deep learning have shown transformative potential in medical imaging, yet concerns about fairness persist due to performance disparities across demographic subgroups. Existing methods aim to address these biases by…

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Ensuring fairness is critical when applying artificial intelligence to high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where predictive models trained on imbalanced and demographically skewed data risk exacerbating existing disparities. Federated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qiming Wu , Siqi Li , Doudou Zhou , Nan Liu

The persistent challenge of bias in machine learning models necessitates robust solutions to ensure parity and equal treatment across diverse groups, particularly in classification tasks. Current methods for mitigating bias often result in…

Addressing fairness in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in medical AI, is crucial for ensuring equitable healthcare outcomes. Recent efforts to enhance fairness have introduced new methodologies and datasets in medical AI.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Yu Tian , Congcong Wen , Min Shi , Muhammad Muneeb Afzal , Hao Huang , Muhammad Osama Khan , Yan Luo , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Deepfake detection models face two critical challenges: generalization to unseen manipulations and demographic fairness among population groups. However, existing approaches often demonstrate that these two objectives are inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Harry Cheng , Ming-Hui Liu , Yangyang Guo , Tianyi Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Although adversarial training (AT) has proven effective in enhancing the model's robustness, the recently revealed issue of fairness in robustness has not been well addressed, i.e. the robust accuracy varies significantly among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yanghao Zhang , Tianle Zhang , Ronghui Mu , Xiaowei Huang , Wenjie Ruan

We present Sandwich Batch Normalization (SaBN), a frustratingly easy improvement of Batch Normalization (BN) with only a few lines of code changes. SaBN is motivated by addressing the inherent feature distribution heterogeneity that one can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Xinyu Gong , Wuyang Chen , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Anomaly detection (AD) has been widely studied for decades in many real-world applications, including fraud detection in finance, and intrusion detection for cybersecurity, etc. Due to the imbalanced nature between protected and unprotected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziwei Wu , Lecheng Zheng , Yuancheng Yu , Ruizhong Qiu , John Birge , Jingrui He

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

Published research highlights the presence of demographic bias in automated facial attribute classification algorithms, particularly impacting women and individuals with darker skin tones. Existing bias mitigation techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ayesha Manzoor , Ajita Rattani

The emerging paradigm of federated learning (FL) strives to enable collaborative training of deep models on the network edge without centrally aggregating raw data and hence improving data privacy. In most cases, the assumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xiaoxiao Li , Meirui Jiang , Xiaofei Zhang , Michael Kamp , Qi Dou

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

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

Despite the rapid development and great success of machine learning models, extensive studies have exposed their disadvantage of inheriting latent discrimination and societal bias from the training data. This phenomenon hinders their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Tianxiang Zhao , Enyan Dai , Kai Shu , Suhang Wang

As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

Fairness in machine learning seeks to mitigate model bias against individuals based on sensitive features such as sex or age, often caused by an uneven representation of the population in the training data due to selection bias. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yasin I. Tepeli , Joana P. Gonçalves

Fairness is becoming a rising concern w.r.t. machine learning model performance. Especially for sensitive fields such as criminal justice and loan decision, eliminating the prediction discrimination towards a certain group of population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Xiaoqian Wang , Heng Huang

Deep learning based diagnostic AI systems based on medical images are starting to provide similar performance as human experts. However these data hungry complex systems are inherently black boxes and therefore slow to be adopted for high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Swarnava Bhattacharyya , Umapada Pal , Tapabrata Chakraborti

Skin diseases affect millions of people worldwide, across all ethnicities. Increasing diagnosis accessibility requires fair and accurate segmentation and classification of dermatology images. However, the scarcity of annotated medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Héctor Carrión , Narges Norouzi

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a critical task in many high-social-impact applications such as finance, healthcare, social media, and cybersecurity, where demographics involving age, gender, race, disease, etc, are used frequently. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Feng Xiao , Xiaoying Tang , Jicong Fan