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Anomaly Detection is an unsupervised learning task aimed at detecting anomalous behaviours with respect to historical data. In particular, multivariate Anomaly Detection has an important role in many applications thanks to the capability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Mattia Carletti , Matteo Terzi , Gian Antonio Susto

Algorithmic fairness of machine learning (ML) models has raised significant concern in the recent years. Many testing, verification, and bias mitigation techniques have been proposed to identify and reduce fairness issues in ML models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yining She , Sumon Biswas , Christian Kästner , Eunsuk Kang

Feature attributions and counterfactual explanations are popular approaches to explain a ML model. The former assigns an importance score to each input feature, while the latter provides input examples with minimal changes to alter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal , Divyat Mahajan , Chenhao Tan , Amit Sharma

Forming a reliable judgement of a machine learning (ML) model's appropriateness for an application ecosystem is critical for its responsible use, and requires considering a broad range of factors including harms, benefits, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Ben Hutchinson , Negar Rostamzadeh , Christina Greer , Katherine Heller , Vinodkumar Prabhakaran

In consequential real-world applications, machine learning (ML) based systems are expected to provide fair and non-discriminatory decisions on candidates from groups defined by protected attributes such as gender and race. These…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Samiulla Shaikh , Harit Vishwakarma , Sameep Mehta , Kush R. Varshney , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Dennis Wei

Fairness of machine learning models in healthcare has drawn increasing attention from clinicians, researchers, and even at the highest level of government. On the other hand, the importance of developing and deploying interpretable or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mary M. Lucas , Xiaoyang Wang , Chia-Hsuan Chang , Christopher C. Yang , Jacqueline E. Braughton , Quyen M. Ngo

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…

Privacy and fairness are two crucial pillars of responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and trustworthy Machine Learning (ML). Each objective has been independently studied in the literature with the aim of reducing utility loss in…

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

Systems that rely on Machine Learning (ML systems) have differing demands on system quality compared to traditional systems. Such quality demands, known as non-functional requirements (NFRs), may differ in their definition, scope, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Khan Mohammad Habibullah , Gregory Gay , Jennifer Horkoff

Nowadays Machine Learning (ML) techniques are extensively adopted in many socially sensitive systems, thus requiring to carefully study the fairness of the decisions taken by such systems. Many approaches have been proposed to address and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Seyum Assefa Abebe , Claudio Lucchese , Salvatore Orlando

Decision trees (DTs) epitomize the ideal of interpretability of machine learning (ML) models. The interpretability of decision trees motivates explainability approaches by so-called intrinsic interpretability, and it is at the core of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yacine Izza , Alexey Ignatiev , Joao Marques-Silva

This paper presents a comprehensive theoretical investigation into the parameterized complexity of explanation problems in various machine learning (ML) models. Contrary to the prevalent black-box perception, our study focuses on models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sebastian Ordyniak , Giacomo Paesani , Mateusz Rychlicki , Stefan Szeider

This paper introduces and develops a novel variable importance score function in the context of ensemble learning and demonstrates its appeal both theoretically and empirically. Our proposed score function is simple and more straightforward…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-27 Ernest Fokoué

Feature selection is crucial in recommender systems for improving model efficiency and predictive performance. Conventional approaches typically employ surrogate models-such as decision trees or neural networks-to estimate feature…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Pengyue Jia , Zhaocheng Du , Yichao Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Xiaopeng Li , Yuhao Wang , Qidong Liu , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Group fairness metrics are an established way of assessing the fairness of prediction-based decision-making systems. However, these metrics are still insufficiently linked to philosophical theories, and their moral meaning is often unclear.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Joachim Baumann , Corinna Hertweck , Michele Loi , Christoph Heitz

Model fairness is an essential element for Trustworthy AI. While many techniques for model fairness have been proposed, most of them assume that the training and deployment data distributions are identical, which is often not true in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

Ensuring that machine learning (ML) models are safe, effective, and equitable across all patients is critical for clinical decision-making and for preventing the amplification of existing health disparities. In this work, we examine how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jianhui Gao , Benson Chou , Zachary R. McCaw , Hilary Thurston , Paul Varghese , Chuan Hong , Jessica Gronsbell

Automated decision making based on big data and machine learning (ML) algorithms can result in discriminatory decisions against certain protected groups defined upon personal data like gender, race, sexual orientation etc. Such algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Vasileios Iosifidis , Besnik Fetahu , Eirini Ntoutsi

In order for machine learning to be deployed and trusted in many applications, it is crucial to be able to reliably explain why the machine learning algorithm makes certain predictions. For example, if an algorithm classifies a given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-07 Amirata Ghorbani , Abubakar Abid , James Zou