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Fairness of machine learning algorithms has been of increasing interest. In order to suppress or eliminate discrimination in prediction, various notions as well as approaches have been proposed to impose fairness. Given a notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Zeyu Tang , Kun Zhang

Algorithmic fairness plays an increasingly critical role in machine learning research. Several group fairness notions and algorithms have been proposed. However, the fairness guarantee of existing fair classification methods mainly depends…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Puheng Li , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

Machine Learning techniques have become pervasive across a range of different applications, and are now widely used in areas as disparate as recidivism prediction, consumer credit-risk analysis and insurance pricing. The prevalence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Michael Varley , Vaishak Belle

The fairness in machine learning is getting increasing attention, as its applications in different fields continue to expand and diversify. To mitigate the discriminated model behaviors between different demographic groups, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Taeuk Jang , Pengyi Shi , Xiaoqian Wang

Trustworthy machine learning is driving a large number of ML community works in order to improve ML acceptance and adoption. The main aspect of trustworthy machine learning are the followings: fairness, uncertainty, robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Gregory Scafarto , Nicolas Posocco , Antoine Bonnefoy

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

As learning machines increase their influence on decisions concerning human lives, analyzing their fairness properties becomes a subject of central importance. Yet, our best tools for measuring the fairness of learning systems are rigid…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-21 David Lopez-Paz , Diane Bouchacourt , Levent Sagun , Nicolas Usunier

A recent flurry of research activity has attempted to quantitatively define "fairness" for decisions based on statistical and machine learning (ML) predictions. The rapid growth of this new field has led to wildly inconsistent terminology…

Applications · Statistics 2020-11-23 Shira Mitchell , Eric Potash , Solon Barocas , Alexander D'Amour , Kristian Lum

As machine learning has become more prevalent, researchers have begun to recognize the necessity of ensuring machine learning systems are fair. Recently, there has been an interest in defining a notion of fairness that mitigates…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Sara Ahmadian , Alessandro Epasto , Marina Knittel , Ravi Kumar , Mohammad Mahdian , Benjamin Moseley , Philip Pham , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Yuyan Wang

Fairness-aware classification is receiving increasing attention in the machine learning fields. Recently research proposes to formulate the fairness-aware classification as constrained optimization problems. However, several limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Yongkai Wu , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

Deep learning models have reached or surpassed human-level performance in the field of medical imaging, especially in disease diagnosis using chest x-rays. However, prior work has found that such classifiers can exhibit biases in the form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Haoran Zhang , Natalie Dullerud , Karsten Roth , Lauren Oakden-Rayner , Stephen Robert Pfohl , Marzyeh Ghassemi

In machine learning, training data often capture the behaviour of multiple subgroups of some underlying human population. This behaviour can often be modelled as observations of an unknown dynamical system with an unobserved state. When the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Quan Zhou , Jakub Marecek , Robert N. Shorten

Algorithmic fairness has become an important machine learning problem, especially for mission-critical Web applications. This work presents a self-supervised model, called DualFair, that can debias sensitive attributes like gender and race…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sungwon Han , Seungeon Lee , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Chuhan Wu , Xiting Wang , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

We consider the task of training machine learning models with data-dependent constraints. Such constraints often arise as empirical versions of expected value constraints that enforce fairness or stability goals. We reformulate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Songkai Xue , Yuekai Sun , Mikhail Yurochkin

As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

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

We extend the fair machine learning literature by considering the problem of proportional centroid clustering in a metric context. For clustering $n$ points with $k$ centers, we define fairness as proportionality to mean that any $n/k$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Xingyu Chen , Brandon Fain , Liang Lyu , Kamesh Munagala

A set of probabilistic predictions is well calibrated if the events that are predicted to occur with probability p do in fact occur about p fraction of the time. Well calibrated predictions are particularly important when machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-14 Mahdi Pakdaman Naeini , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

Increases in the deployment of machine learning algorithms for applications that deal with sensitive data have brought attention to the issue of fairness in machine learning. Many works have been devoted to applications that require…

Achieving the Bayes optimal binary classification rule subject to group fairness constraints is known to be reducible, in some cases, to learning a group-wise thresholding rule over the Bayes regressor. In this paper, we extend this result…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin