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Understanding and removing bias from the decisions made by machine learning models is essential to avoid discrimination against unprivileged groups. Despite recent progress in algorithmic fairness, there is still no clear answer as to which…

Ranking, recommendation, and retrieval systems are widely used in online platforms and other societal systems, including e-commerce, media-streaming, admissions, gig platforms, and hiring. In the recent past, a large "fair ranking" research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Gourab K Patro , Lorenzo Porcaro , Laura Mitchell , Qiuyue Zhang , Meike Zehlike , Nikhil Garg

In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of both the public and scientific community that algorithmic systems can reproduce, amplify, or even introduce unfairness in our societies. These lecture notes provide an introduction…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Hilde J. P. Weerts

As more researchers have become aware of and passionate about algorithmic fairness, there has been an explosion in papers laying out new metrics, suggesting algorithms to address issues, and calling attention to issues in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Tulsee Doshi , Hai Qian , Allison Woodruff , Christine Luu , Pierre Kreitmann , Jonathan Bischof , Ed H. Chi

Algorithmic fairness has been framed as a newly emerging technology that mitigates systemic discrimination in automated decision-making, providing opportunities to improve fairness in information systems (IS). However, based on a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mateusz Dolata , Stefan Feuerriegel , Gerhard Schwabe

As \emph{artificial intelligence} (AI) systems are increasingly involved in decisions affecting our lives, ensuring that automated decision-making is fair and ethical has become a top priority. Intuitively, we feel that akin to human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Gábor Erdélyi , Olivia J. Erdélyi , Vladimir Estivill-Castro

Today, AI is increasingly being used in many high-stakes decision-making applications in which fairness is an important concern. Already, there are many examples of AI being biased and making questionable and unfair decisions. The AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Yunfeng Zhang , Rachel K. E. Bellamy , Kush R. Varshney

Current developments in AI made it broadly significant for reducing human labor and expenses across several essential domains, including healthcare and finance. However, the application of AI in the actual world poses multiple risks and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Sadia Afrin Mim

Automated decision systems (ADS) have become ubiquitous in many high-stakes domains. Those systems typically involve sophisticated yet opaque artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that seldom allow for full comprehension of their inner…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jakob Schoeffer , Yvette Machowski , Niklas Kuehl

People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Preethi Lahoti , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

Increasingly, scholars seek to integrate legal and technological insights to combat bias in AI systems. In recent years, many different definitions for ensuring non-discrimination in algorithmic decision systems have been put forward. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Philip Hacker , Emil Wiedemann , Meike Zehlike

In recent years, the problem of addressing fairness in Machine Learning (ML) and automatic decision-making has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific communities dealing with Artificial Intelligence. A plethora of different…

As machine learning algorithms grow in popularity and diversify to many industries, ethical and legal concerns regarding their fairness have become increasingly relevant. We explore the problem of algorithmic fairness, taking an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Joshua Lee , Yuheng Bu , Prasanna Sattigeri , Rameswar Panda , Gregory Wornell , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris

The law forbids discrimination. But the ambiguity of human decision-making often makes it extraordinarily hard for the legal system to know whether anyone has actually discriminated. To understand how algorithms affect discrimination, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jon Kleinberg , Jens Ludwig , Sendhil Mullainathan , Cass R. Sunstein

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in more applications, the need to consider and mitigate biases from the learned models has followed. Most works in developing fair learning algorithms focus on the offline setting. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Wenbin Zhang , Albert Bifet , Xiangliang Zhang , Jeremy C. Weiss , Wolfgang Nejdl

Fairness in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been extensively studied, particularly in reward distribution among agents in scenarios such as goods allocation, resource division, lotteries, and bargaining systems. Fairness in MAS depends on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Gabriele La Malfa , Jie M. Zhang , Michael Luck , Elizabeth Black

In recent years, machine learning techniques have been increasingly applied in sensitive decision making processes, raising fairness concerns. Past research has shown that machine learning may reproduce and even exacerbate human bias due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Benjamin Paaßen , Astrid Bunge , Carolin Hainke , Leon Sindelar , Matthias Vogelsang

Machine learning best practice statements have proliferated, but there is a lack of consensus on what the standards should be. For fairness standards in particular, there is little guidance on how fairness might be achieved in practice.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Jesse Russell

Since the beginning of their history, insurers have been known to use data to classify and price risks. As such, they were confronted early on with the problem of fairness and discrimination associated with data. This issue is becoming…

General Economics · Economics 2022-05-18 Laurence Barry , Arthur Charpentier

Ensuring algorithmic fairness remains a significant challenge in machine learning, particularly as models are increasingly applied across diverse domains. While numerous fairness criteria exist, they often lack generalizability across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhecheng Sheng , Jiawei Zhang , Enmao Diao