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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

Promoting fairness for deep clustering models in unsupervised clustering settings to reduce demographic bias is a challenging goal. This is because of the limitation of large-scale balanced data with well-annotated labels for sensitive or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Chi Nhan Duong , Marios Savvides , Kaushik Roy , Hugh Churchill , Khoa Luu

We propose a fairness-aware learning framework that mitigates intersectional subgroup bias associated with protected attributes. Prior research has primarily focused on mitigating one kind of bias by incorporating complex fairness-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Narine Kokhlikyan , Bilal Alsallakh , Fulton Wang , Vivek Miglani , Oliver Aobo Yang , David Adkins

Recent research has identified discriminatory behavior of automated prediction algorithms towards groups identified on specific protected attributes (e.g., gender, ethnicity, age group, etc.). When deployed in real-world scenarios, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Anubha Pandey , Aditi Rai , Maneet Singh , Deepak Bhatt , Tanmoy Bhowmik

It is widely accepted that biased data leads to biased and thus potentially unfair models. Therefore, several measures for bias in data and model predictions have been proposed, as well as bias mitigation techniques whose aim is to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Marco Favier , Toon Calders , Sam Pinxteren , Jonathan Meyer

Most existing works on fairness assume the model has full access to demographic information. However, there exist scenarios where demographic information is partially available because a record was not maintained throughout data collection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Patrik Joslin Kenfack , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Ulrich Aïvodji

This paper presents an algorithm for enumerating biases in word embeddings. The algorithm exposes a large number of offensive associations related to sensitive features such as race and gender on publicly available embeddings, including a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Nathaniel Swinger , Maria De-Arteaga , Neil Thomas Heffernan , Mark DM Leiserson , Adam Tauman Kalai

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Neural networks often learn spurious correlations when exposed to biased training data, leading to poor performance on out-of-distribution data. A biased dataset can be divided, according to biased features, into bias-aligned samples (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Rui Hu , Yahan Tu , Jitao Sang

Ensuring fairness in Graph Neural Networks is fundamental to promoting trustworthy and socially responsible machine learning systems. In response, numerous fair graph learning methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zichong Wang , Zhipeng Yin , Liping Yang , Jun Zhuang , Rui Yu , Qingzhao Kong , Wenbin Zhang

Machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance in many areas. However, the concerns that they can be biased against specific demographic groups hinder their adoption in high-stake applications. Thus, it is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Canyu Chen , Yueqing Liang , Xiongxiao Xu , Shangyu Xie , Ashish Kundu , Ali Payani , Yuan Hong , Kai Shu

Fairness has been identified as an important aspect of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions for decision making. Recent literature offers a variety of approaches for debiasing, however many of them fall short when the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ata Yalcin , Asli Umay Ozturk , Yigit Sever , Viktoria Pauw , Stephan Hachinger , Ismail Hakki Toroslu , Pinar Karagoz

Biased human decisions have consequential impacts across various domains, yielding unfair treatment of individuals and resulting in suboptimal outcomes for organizations and society. In recognition of this fact, organizations regularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wanxue Dong , Maria De-Arteaga , Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

Removing bias while keeping all task-relevant information is challenging for fair representation learning methods since they would yield random or degenerate representations w.r.t. labels when the sensitive attributes correlate with labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yixuan Zhang , Feng Zhou , Zhidong Li , Yang Wang , Fang Chen

Learning a fair predictive model is crucial to mitigate biased decisions against minority groups in high-stakes applications. A common approach to learn such a model involves solving an optimization problem that maximizes the predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Abhin Shah , Maohao Shen , Jongha Jon Ryu , Subhro Das , Prasanna Sattigeri , Yuheng Bu , Gregory W. Wornell

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to address the problem of classifying unlabeled samples from the target domain whilst labeled samples are only available from the source domain and the data distributions are different in these two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Qian Wang , Toby P. Breckon

Machine learning models often inherit biases from historical data, raising critical concerns about fairness and accountability. Conventional fairness interventions typically require access to sensitive attributes like gender or race, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yixiao Lin , James Booth

Although many fairness criteria have been proposed to ensure that machine learning algorithms do not exhibit or amplify our existing social biases, these algorithms are trained on datasets that can themselves be statistically biased. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yiqiao Liao , Parinaz Naghizadeh

The problem of algorithmic bias in machine learning has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its concrete and potentially hazardous implications in society. In much the same manner, biases can also alter modern industrial and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Laurent Risser , Agustin Picard , Lucas Hervier , Jean-Michel Loubes

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised clustering which remains one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We propose the clustered generator model for clustering which contains both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-20 Dandan Zhu , Tian Han , Linqi Zhou , Xiaokang Yang , Ying Nian Wu