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Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Fairness is an important objective throughout society. From the distribution of limited goods such as education, over hiring and payment, to taxes, legislation, and jurisprudence. Due to the increasing importance of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Felix Störck , Fabian Hinder , Johannes Brinkrolf , Benjamin Paassen , Valerie Vaquet , Barbara Hammer

Feature selection is a prevalent data preprocessing paradigm for various learning tasks. Due to the expensive cost of acquiring supervision information, unsupervised feature selection sparks great interests recently. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Xiaoying Xing , Hongfu Liu , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

In this paper we study the problem of correlation clustering under fairness constraints. In the classic correlation clustering problem, we are given a complete graph where each edge is labeled positive or negative. The goal is to obtain a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Saba Ahmadi , Sainyam Galhotra , Barna Saha , Roy Schwartz

Machine learning algorithms for prediction are increasingly being used in critical decisions affecting human lives. Various fairness formalizations, with no firm consensus yet, are employed to prevent such algorithms from systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Pratik Gajane , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Fair representation learning is an attractive approach that promises fairness of downstream predictors by encoding sensitive data. Unfortunately, recent work has shown that strong adversarial predictors can still exhibit unfairness by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mislav Balunović , Anian Ruoss , Martin Vechev

We revisit the problem of fair representation learning by proposing Fair Partial Least Squares (PLS) components. PLS is widely used in statistics to efficiently reduce the dimension of the data by providing representation tailored for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Elena M. De-Diego , Adrián Perez-Suay , Paula Gordaliza , Jean-Michel Loubes

A fair clustering instance is given a data set $A$ in which every point is assigned some color. Colors correspond to various protected attributes such as sex, ethnicity, or age. A fair clustering is an instance where membership of points in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Matteo Böhm , Adriano Fazzone , Stefano Leonardi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We develop an algorithm to train individually fair learning-to-rank (LTR) models. The proposed approach ensures items from minority groups appear alongside similar items from majority groups. This notion of fair ranking is based on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-23 Amanda Bower , Hamid Eftekhari , Mikhail Yurochkin , Yuekai Sun

In this paper, we focus on unsupervised representation learning for clustering of images. Recent advances in deep clustering and unsupervised representation learning are based on the idea that different views of an input image (generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Jayanth Reddy Regatti , Eren Manavoglu , Urun Dogan

Using the concept of principal stratification from the causal inference literature, we introduce a new notion of fairness, called principal fairness, for human and algorithmic decision-making. The key idea is that one should not…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kosuke Imai , Zhichao Jiang

As algorithmic decision-making systems are becoming more pervasive, it is crucial to ensure such systems do not become mechanisms of unfair discrimination on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, etc. Moreover, due to the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Rana Forsati , James Z. Wang , Mehrdad Mahdavi

We consider the $k$-min-sum-radii ($k$-MSR) clustering problem with fairness constraints. The $k$-min-sum-radii problem is a mixture of the classical $k$-center and $k$-median problems. We are given a set of points $P$ in a metric space and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lena Carta , Lukas Drexler , Annika Hennes , Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

We study a novel problem of fairness in ranking aimed at minimizing the amount of individual unfairness introduced when enforcing group-fairness constraints. Our proposal is rooted in the distributional maxmin fairness theory, which uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Bonchi

In the face of complex natural images, existing deep clustering algorithms fall significantly short in terms of clustering accuracy when compared to supervised classification methods, making them less practical. This paper introduces an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Liheng Hu , Sijin Wang

Fairness in algorithmic decision-making is often framed in terms of individual fairness, which requires that similar individuals receive similar outcomes. A system violates individual fairness if there exists a pair of inputs differing only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ranit Debnath Akash , Ashish Kumar , Verya Monjezi , Ashutosh Trivedi , Gang , Tan , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Fairness in machine learning is crucial when individuals are subject to automated decisions made by models in high-stake domains. Organizations that employ these models may also need to satisfy regulations that promote responsible and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Shubham Sharma , Alan H. Gee , David Paydarfar , Joydeep Ghosh

Clustering uncertain data is an essential task in data mining for the internet of things. Possible world based algorithms seem promising for clustering uncertain data. However, there are two issues in existing possible world based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Han Liu , Xianchao Zhang , Xiaotong Zhang , Qimai Li , Xiao-Ming Wu

Algorithmic fairness involves expressing notions such as equity, or reasonable treatment, as quantifiable measures that a machine learning algorithm can optimise. Most work in the literature to date has focused on classification problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Daniel Steinberg , Alistair Reid , Simon O'Callaghan

Convex clustering has recently garnered increasing interest due to its attractive theoretical and computational properties, but its merits become limited in the face of high-dimensional data. In such settings, pairwise affinity terms that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Jason Xu