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We study fairness in classification, where individuals are classified, e.g., admitted to a university, and the goal is to prevent discrimination against individuals based on their membership in some group, while maintaining utility for the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Cynthia Dwork , Moritz Hardt , Toniann Pitassi , Omer Reingold , Rich Zemel

Today's online platforms heavily lean on algorithmic recommendations for bolstering user engagement and driving revenue. However, these recommendations can impact multiple stakeholders simultaneously -- the platform, items (sellers), and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Qinyi Chen , Jason Cheuk Nam Liang , Negin Golrezaei , Djallel Bouneffouf

Algorithmic Fairness is an established field in machine learning that aims to reduce biases in data. Recent advances have proposed various methods to ensure fairness in a univariate environment, where the goal is to de-bias a single task.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 François Hu , Philipp Ratz , Arthur Charpentier

Recommender systems play a crucial role in shaping information we encounter online, whether on social media or when using content platforms, thereby influencing our beliefs, choices, and behaviours. Many recent works address the issue of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Václav Blahut , Karel Koupil

Diversity maximization aims to select a diverse and representative subset of items from a large dataset. It is a fundamental optimization task that finds applications in data summarization, feature selection, web search, recommender…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yanhao Wang , Michael Mathioudakis , Jia Li , Francesco Fabbri

Machine learning models are increasingly used in critical decision-making applications. However, these models are susceptible to replicating or even amplifying bias present in real-world data. While there are various bias mitigation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Shih-Chi Ma , Tatiana Ermakova , Benjamin Fabian

Model fairness (a.k.a., bias) has become one of the most critical problems in a wide range of AI applications. An unfair model in autonomous driving may cause a traffic accident if corner cases (e.g., extreme weather) cannot be fairly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yi Sheng , Junhuan Yang , Lei Yang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtongf Hu , Weiwen Jiang

Objectives: Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in conjunction with electronic health records (EHRs) holds transformative potential to improve healthcare. Yet, addressing bias in AI, which risks worsening healthcare disparities, cannot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Feng Chen , Liqin Wang , Julie Hong , Jiaqi Jiang , Li Zhou

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is an effective way to alleviate the cold-start problem. However, previous work severely ignores fairness and bias when learning the mapping function, which is used to obtain the representations for fresh…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiakai Tang , Xu Chen , Xueyang Feng

Face recognition is a long standing challenge in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to create systems that accurately detect, recognize, verify, and understand human faces. There are significant technical hurdles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michele Merler , Nalini Ratha , Rogerio S. Feris , John R. Smith

Following a brief introduction to research, research processes, research types, papers, reviews, and evaluations, this paper presents a structured framework for addressing inconsistencies in research methodology, technical writing, quality…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Md. Jalil Piran , Nguyen H. Tran

Fairness in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models is becoming critically important, especially as decisions made by these systems impact diverse groups. In education, a vital sector for all countries, the widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nga Pham , Minh Kha Do , Tran Vu Dai , Pham Ngoc Hung , Anh Nguyen-Duc

This paper presents fairlib, an open-source framework for assessing and improving classification fairness. It provides a systematic framework for quickly reproducing existing baseline models, developing new methods, evaluating models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Xudong Han , Aili Shen , Yitong Li , Lea Frermann , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

The ongoing pandemic has highlighted the importance of reliable and efficient clinical trials in healthcare. Trial sites, where the trials are conducted, are chosen mainly based on feasibility in terms of medical expertise and access to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Rakshith S Srinivasa , Cheng Qian , Brandon Theodorou , Jeffrey Spaeder , Cao Xiao , Lucas Glass , Jimeng Sun

Information retrieval (IR) systems often leverage query data to suggest relevant items to users. This introduces the possibility of unfairness if the query (i.e., input) and the resulting recommendations unintentionally correlate with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Rinat Khaziev , Bryce Casavant , Pearce Washabaugh , Amy A. Winecoff , Matthew Graham

In the basic recommendation paradigm, the most (predicted) relevant item is recommended to each user. This may result in some items receiving lower exposure than they "should"; to counter this, several algorithmic approaches have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Sophie Greenwood , Sudalakshmee Chiniah , Nikhil Garg

The lack of bias management in Recommender Systems leads to minority groups receiving unfair recommendations. Moreover, the trade-off between equity and precision makes it difficult to obtain recommendations that meet both criteria. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jesús Bobadilla , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Ángel González-Prieto , Fernando Ortega

With the widespread adoption of machine learning in the real world, the impact of the discriminatory bias has attracted attention. In recent years, various methods to mitigate the bias have been proposed. However, most of them have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kenji Kobayashi , Yuri Nakao

In this paper, we introduce FairSense-AI: a multimodal framework designed to detect and mitigate bias in both text and images. By leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), FairSense-AI uncovers subtle forms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shaina Raza , Mukund Sayeeganesh Chettiar , Matin Yousefabadi , Tahniat Khan , Marcelo Lotif

An important aspect of a researcher's activities is to find relevant and related publications. The task of a recommender system for scientific publications is to provide a list of papers that match these criteria. Based on the collection of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Roman Kern , Kris Jack , Michael Granitzer