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Fair machine learning works have been focusing on the development of equitable algorithms that address discrimination of certain groups. Yet, many of these fairness-aware approaches aim to obtain a unique solution to the problem, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ana Valdivia , Javier Sánchez-Monedero , Jorge Casillas

As AI systems increasingly influence critical sectors like telecommunications, finance, healthcare, and public services, ensuring fairness in decision-making is essential to prevent biased or unjust outcomes that disproportionately affect…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Avinash Agarwal , Mayashankar Kumar , Manisha J. Nene

As machine learning has been deployed ubiquitously across applications in modern data science, algorithmic fairness has become a great concern. Among them, imposing fairness constraints during learning, i.e. in-processing fair training, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yuzhen Mao , Zhun Deng , Huaxiu Yao , Ting Ye , Kenji Kawaguchi , James Zou

To reduce human error and prejudice, many high-stakes decisions have been turned over to machine algorithms. However, recent research suggests that this does not remove discrimination, and can perpetuate harmful stereotypes. While…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yuzi He , Keith Burghardt , Kristina Lerman

As AI systems become more embedded in everyday life, the development of fair and unbiased models becomes more critical. Considering the social impact of AI systems is not merely a technical challenge but a moral imperative. As evidenced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Aida Tayebi , Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

The growing capability and accessibility of machine learning has led to its application to many real-world domains and data about people. Despite the benefits algorithmic systems may bring, models can reflect, inject, or exacerbate implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Will Epperson , Fred Hohman , Minsuk Kahng , Jamie Morgenstern , Duen Horng Chau

Ensuring that machine learning (ML) models are safe, effective, and equitable across all patients is critical for clinical decision-making and for preventing the amplification of existing health disparities. In this work, we examine how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jianhui Gao , Benson Chou , Zachary R. McCaw , Hilary Thurston , Paul Varghese , Chuan Hong , Jessica Gronsbell

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

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used to make or support decisions in a wide range of settings. With such expansive use there is also growing concern about the fairness of such methods. Prior literature on algorithmic fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Arindam Ray , Balaji Padmanabhan , Lina Bouayad

In the last decade, researchers have studied fairness as a software property. In particular, how to engineer fair software systems? This includes specifying, designing, and validating fairness properties. However, the landscape of works…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ezekiel Soremekun , Mike Papadakis , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Fairness in machine learning is more important than ever as ethical concerns continue to grow. Individual fairness demands that individuals differing only in sensitive attributes receive the same outcomes. However, commonly used machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruihan Zhang , Jun Sun

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to exacerbate societal bias and set back decades of advances in equal rights and civil liberty. Data used to train machine learning algorithms may capture social injustices, inequality or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Susan Leavy , Barry O'Sullivan , Eugenia Siapera

With increasing digitalization, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous. AI-based systems to identify, optimize, automate, and scale solutions to complex economic and societal problems are being proposed and implemented. This…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, with many children having increased exposure to AI technologies in daily life. We aimed to understand middle school girls' (a group often excluded group in tech) perceptions and knowledge gaps…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jaemarie Solyst , Alexis Axon , Angela E. B. Stewart , Motahhare Eslami , Amy Ogan

Unfair behaviors of Machine Learning (ML) software have garnered increasing attention and concern among software engineers. To tackle this issue, extensive research has been dedicated to conducting fairness testing of ML software, and this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zhenpeng Chen , Jie M. Zhang , Max Hort , Mark Harman , Federica Sarro

Recent advancements in machine learning and deep learning have brought algorithmic fairness into sharp focus, illuminating concerns over discriminatory decision making that negatively impacts certain individuals or groups. These concerns…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Renqiang Luo , Tao Tang , Feng Xia , Jiaying Liu , Chengpei Xu , Leo Yu Zhang , Wei Xiang , Chengqi Zhang

Current fairness toolkits in machine learning only admit a limited range of fairness definitions and have seen little integration with automatic differentiation libraries, despite the central role these libraries play in modern machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Maarten Buyl , MaryBeth Defrance , Tijl De Bie

Recent works in artificial intelligence fairness attempt to mitigate discrimination by proposing constrained optimization programs that achieve parity for some fairness statistic. Most assume availability of the class label, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wenbin Zhang , Jeremy C. Weiss

Decision support systems (e.g., for ecological conservation) and autonomous systems (e.g., adaptive controllers in smart cities) start to be deployed in real applications. Although their operations often impact many users or stakeholders,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Paul Weng

The democratization of Data Mining has been widely successful thanks in part to powerful and easy-to-use Machine Learning libraries. These libraries have been particularly tailored to tackle Supervised Learning. However, strong supervision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Pierre Nodet , Vincent Lemaire , Alexis Bondu , Antoine Cornuéjols