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To ensure unbiased and ethical automated predictions, fairness must be a core principle in machine learning applications. Fairness in machine learning aims to mitigate biases present in the training data and model imperfections that could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jan Pablo Burgard , João Vitor Pamplona

Decision-making systems increasingly orchestrate our world: how to intervene on the algorithmic components to build fair and equitable systems is therefore a question of utmost importance; one that is substantially complicated by the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jessie Finocchiaro , Roland Maio , Faidra Monachou , Gourab K Patro , Manish Raghavan , Ana-Andreea Stoica , Stratis Tsirtsis

In this paper, we argue for the adoption of a normative definition of fairness within the machine learning community. After characterizing this definition, we review the current literature of Fair ML in light of its implications. We end by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Michael Skirpan , Micha Gorelick

This thesis investigates three areas targeted at improving the reliability of machine learning; fairness in machine learning, strategic classification, and algorithmic robustness. Each of these domains has special properties or structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kevin Stangl

Federated learning involves training statistical models over remote devices such as mobile phones while keeping data localized. Training in heterogeneous and potentially massive networks introduces opportunities for privacy-preserving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Afra Mashhadi , Alex Kyllo , Reza M. Parizi

Recommender systems can strongly influence which information we see online, e.g., on social media, and thus impact our beliefs, decisions, and actions. At the same time, these systems can create substantial business value for different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yashar Deldjoo , Dietmar Jannach , Alejandro Bellogin , Alessandro Difonzo , Dario Zanzonelli

Automated decision systems are increasingly used for consequential decision making -- for a variety of reasons. These systems often rely on sophisticated yet opaque models, which do not (or hardly) allow for understanding how or why a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jakob Schoeffer , Yvette Machowski , Niklas Kuehl

Achieving fairness across diverse clients in Federated Learning (FL) remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneity of the data and the inaccessibility of sensitive attributes from clients' private datasets. This study addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Disha Makhija , Xing Han , Joydeep Ghosh , Yejin Kim

Ensuring long-term fairness is crucial when developing automated decision making systems, specifically in dynamic and sequential environments. By maximizing their reward without consideration of fairness, AI agents can introduce disparities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari , Hanna Yurchyk , Scott Fujimoto , Doina Precup , David Meger

With the increasing pervasive use of machine learning in social and economic settings, there has been an interest in the notion of machine bias in the AI community. Models trained on historic data reflect biases that exist in society and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kailash Karthik Saravanakumar

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

In the evolving field of machine learning, ensuring group fairness has become a critical concern, prompting the development of algorithms designed to mitigate bias in decision-making processes. Group fairness refers to the principle that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Teresa Salazar , João Gama , Helder Araújo , Pedro Henriques Abreu

As Machine Learning grows in popularity across various fields, equity has become a key focus for the AI community. However, fairness-oriented approaches are still underexplored in smart mobility. Addressing this gap, our study investigates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Matteo Cederle , Luca Vittorio Piron , Marina Ceccon , Federico Chiariotti , Alessandro Fabris , Marco Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

The rise in the use of AI/ML applications across industries has sparked more discussions about the fairness of AI/ML in recent times. While prior research on the fairness of AI/ML exists, there is a lack of empirical studies focused on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Aastha Pant , Rashina Hoda , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Burak Turhan

Recent work in fair machine learning has proposed dozens of technical definitions of algorithmic fairness and methods for enforcing these definitions. However, we still lack an understanding of how to develop machine learning systems with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Hao-Fei Cheng , Logan Stapleton , Ruiqi Wang , Paige Bullock , Alexandra Chouldechova , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Haiyi Zhu

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 widespread integration of Machine Learning systems in daily life, particularly in high-stakes domains, has raised concerns about the fairness implications. While prior works have investigated static fairness measures, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Usman Gohar , Zeyu Tang , Jialu Wang , Kun Zhang , Peter L. Spirtes , Yang Liu , Lu Cheng

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in high-stakes applications impacting society. Therefore, it is of critical importance that ML models do not propagate discrimination. Collecting accurate labeled data in societal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Hadis Anahideh , Abolfazl Asudeh , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Fairness is a critical requirement for Machine Learning (ML) software, driving the development of numerous bias mitigation methods. Previous research has identified a leveling-down effect in bias mitigation for computer vision and natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhenpeng Chen , Xinyue Li , Jie M. Zhang , Weisong Sun , Ying Xiao , Tianlin Li , Yiling Lou , Yang Liu

The field of automated machine learning (AutoML) introduces techniques that automate parts of the development of machine learning (ML) systems, accelerating the process and reducing barriers for novices. However, decisions derived from ML…