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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across various domains but often lack fairness considerations, potentially leading to discriminatory outcomes against marginalized populations. Unlike fairness in traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Thang Doan Viet , Zichong Wang , Minh Nhat Nguyen , Wenbin Zhang

In recent years, fairness in machine learning has emerged as a critical concern to ensure that developed and deployed predictive models do not have disadvantageous predictions for marginalized groups. It is essential to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jansen S. B. Pereira , Giovani Valdrighi , Marcos Medeiros Raimundo

Machine learning (ML) has become a critical tool in public health, offering the potential to improve population health, diagnosis, treatment selection, and health system efficiency. However, biases in data and model design can result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Shaina Raza

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in critical decision-making software, but incidents have raised questions about the fairness of ML predictions. To address this issue, new tools and methods are needed to mitigate bias in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Giang Nguyen , Sumon Biswas , Hridesh Rajan

Deep learning is increasingly being used in high-stake decision making applications that affect individual lives. However, deep learning models might exhibit algorithmic discrimination behaviors with respect to protected groups, potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengnan Du , Fan Yang , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Fairness-aware machine learning (fair-ml) techniques are algorithmic interventions designed to ensure that individuals who are affected by the predictions of a machine learning model are treated fairly. The problem is often posed as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hilde Weerts , Lambèr Royakkers , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Fairness in machine learning (ML) has become a rapidly growing area of research. But why, in the first place, is unfairness in ML wrong? And why should we care about improving fairness? Most fair-ML research implicitly appeals to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Youjin Kong

This paper proposes a federated learning framework designed to achieve \textit{relative fairness} for clients. Traditional federated learning frameworks typically ensure absolute fairness by guaranteeing minimum performance across all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Shogo Nakakita , Tatsuya Kaneko , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki , Masaaki Imaizumi

Algorithmic fairness, the research field of making machine learning (ML) algorithms fair, is an established area in ML. As ML technologies expand their application domains, including ones with high societal impact, it becomes essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Wenbin Zhang , Zichong Wang , Juyong Kim , Cheng Cheng , Thomas Oommen , Pradeep Ravikumar , Jeremy Weiss

Face recognition has achieved great progress owing to the fast development of the deep neural network in the past a few years. As an important part of deep neural networks, a number of the loss functions have been proposed which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xin Wei , Hui Wang , Bryan Scotney , Huan Wan

Improving the fairness of federated learning (FL) benefits healthy and sustainable collaboration, especially for medical applications. However, existing fair FL methods ignore the specific characteristics of medical FL applications, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yunlu Yan , Lei Zhu , Yuexiang Li , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Chun-Mei Feng

Algorithmic fairness has conventionally adopted the mathematically convenient perspective of racial color-blindness (i.e., difference unaware treatment). However, we contend that in a range of important settings, group difference awareness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Angelina Wang , Michelle Phan , Daniel E. Ho , Sanmi Koyejo

The remarkable performance of deep learning models and their applications in consequential domains (e.g., facial recognition) introduces important challenges at the intersection of equity and security. Fairness and robustness are two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Cuong Tran , Keyu Zhu , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Existing domain adaptation methods aim to reduce the distributional difference between the source and target domains and respect their specific discriminative information, by establishing the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Wei Wang , Haojie Li , Zhengming Ding , Zhihui Wang

As Machine Learning technologies become increasingly used in contexts that affect citizens, companies as well as researchers need to be confident that their application of these methods will not have unexpected social implications, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Simon Caton , Christian Haas

Model fairness (a.k.a., bias) has become one of the most critical problems in a wide range of AI applications. An unfair model in autonomous driving may cause a traffic accident if corner cases (e.g., extreme weather) cannot be fairly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yi Sheng , Junhuan Yang , Lei Yang , Yiyu Shi , Jingtongf Hu , Weiwen Jiang

Language Models (LMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Despite these advancements, LMs can inherit and amplify societal biases related to sensitive attributes such as gender…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhipeng Yin , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Wenbin Zhang

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

The urging societal demand for fair AI systems has put pressure on the research community to develop predictive models that are not only globally accurate but also meet new fairness criteria, reflecting the lack of disparate mistreatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jean-Rémy Conti , Stéphan Clémençon

As machine learning has been deployed ubiquitously across applications in modern data science, algorithmic fairness has become a great concern. Among them, imposing fairness constraints during learning, i.e. in-processing fair training, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yuzhen Mao , Zhun Deng , Huaxiu Yao , Ting Ye , Kenji Kawaguchi , James Zou