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We turn the definition of individual fairness on its head---rather than ascertaining the fairness of a model given a predetermined metric, we find a metric for a given model that satisfies individual fairness. This can facilitate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Samuel Yeom , Matt Fredrikson

Fairness in machine learning has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The fairness methods improving algorithmic fairness for in-distribution data may not perform well under distribution shifts. In this paper, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhimeng Jiang , Xiaotian Han , Hongye Jin , Guanchu Wang , Rui Chen , Na Zou , Xia Hu

The reliability of a learning model is key to the successful deployment of machine learning in various industries. Creating a robust model, particularly one unaffected by adversarial attacks, requires a comprehensive understanding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ramin Barati , Reza Safabakhsh , Mohammad Rahmati

Adversarial training is the industry standard for producing models that are robust to small adversarial perturbations. However, machine learning practitioners need models that are robust to other kinds of changes that occur naturally, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Manli Shu , Zuxuan Wu , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Although popularized AI fairness metrics, e.g., demographic parity, have uncovered bias in AI-assisted decision-making outcomes, they do not consider how much effort one has spent to get to where one is today in the input feature space.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tin Trung Nguyen , Jiannan Xu , Zora Che , Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le , Rushil Dandamudi , Donald Braman , Furong Huang , Hal Daumé , Zubin Jelveh

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

Fairness-aware learning involves designing algorithms that do not discriminate with respect to some sensitive feature (e.g., race or gender). Existing work on the problem operates under the assumption that the sensitive feature available in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Alexandre Louis Lamy , Ziyuan Zhong , Aditya Krishna Menon , Nakul Verma

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

Training and evaluation of fair classifiers is a challenging problem. This is partly due to the fact that most fairness metrics of interest depend on both the sensitive attribute information and label information of the data points. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Pranjal Awasthi , Alex Beutel , Matthaeus Kleindessner , Jamie Morgenstern , Xuezhi Wang

The deep integration of foundation models (FM) with federated learning (FL) enhances personalization and scalability for diverse downstream tasks, making it crucial in sensitive domains like healthcare. Achieving group fairness has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuning Yang , Han Yu , Tianrun Gao , Xiaodong Xu , Guangyu Wang

Despite the success of recommender systems in alleviating information overload, fairness issues have raised concerns in recent years, potentially leading to unequal treatment for certain user groups. While efforts have been made to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Haoran Xin , Ying Sun , Chao Wang , Yanke Yu , Weijia Zhang , Hui Xiong

Algorithm fairness has become a central problem for the broad adoption of artificial intelligence. Although the past decade has witnessed an explosion of excellent work studying algorithm biases, achieving fairness in real-world AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 James Enouen , Tianshu Sun , Yan Liu

Adversarial robustness refers to a model's ability to resist perturbation of inputs, while distribution robustness evaluates the performance of the model under data shifts. Although both aim to ensure reliable performance, prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yipei Wang , Zhaoying Pan , Xiaoqian Wang

Adversarial training aims to defend against adversaries: malicious opponents whose sole aim is to harm predictive performance in any way possible. This presents a rather harsh perspective, which we assert results in unnecessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Maayan Ehrenberg , Roy Ganz , Nir Rosenfeld

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

Though recommender systems are defined by personalization, recent work has shown the importance of additional, beyond-accuracy objectives, such as fairness. Because users often expect their recommendations to be purely personalized, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Nasim Sonboli , Jessie J. Smith , Florencia Cabral Berenfus , Robin Burke , Casey Fiesler

A growing body of literature in fairness-aware machine learning (fairML) aims to mitigate machine learning (ML)-related unfairness in automated decision-making (ADM) by defining metrics that measure fairness of an ML model and by proposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ludwig Bothmann , Kristina Peters , Bernd Bischl

Learning meaningful representations that maintain the content necessary for a particular task while filtering away detrimental variations is a problem of great interest in machine learning. In this paper, we tackle the problem of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Qizhe Xie , Zihang Dai , Yulun Du , Eduard Hovy , Graham Neubig

Speaker recognition is increasingly used in several everyday applications including smart speakers, customer care centers and other speech-driven analytics. It is crucial to accurately evaluate and mitigate biases present in machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Raghuveer Peri , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

As the data-driven decision process becomes dominating for industrial applications, fairness-aware machine learning arouses great attention in various areas. This work proposes fairness penalties learned by neural networks with a simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song , Guang Lin