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In today's world, we need to ensure that AI systems are fair and unbiased. Our study looked at tools designed to test the fairness of software to see if they are practical and easy for software developers to use. We found that while some…

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Machine learning software is being used in many applications (finance, hiring, admissions, criminal justice) having a huge social impact. But sometimes the behavior of this software is biased and it shows discrimination based on some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Joymallya Chakraborty , Kewen Peng , Tim Menzies

This paper presents fairlib, an open-source framework for assessing and improving classification fairness. It provides a systematic framework for quickly reproducing existing baseline models, developing new methods, evaluating models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Xudong Han , Aili Shen , Yitong Li , Lea Frermann , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

In collaborative learning with streaming data, nodes (e.g., organizations) jointly and continuously learn a machine learning (ML) model by sharing the latest model updates computed from their latest streaming data. For the more resourceful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xiaoqiang Lin , Xinyi Xu , See-Kiong Ng , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Algorithmic bias mitigation has been one of the most difficult conundrums for the data science community and Machine Learning (ML) experts. Over several years, there have appeared enormous efforts in the field of fairness in ML. Despite the…

We present FairHealth, an open-source Python library that provides a unified, modular framework for trustworthy machine learning in healthcare applications, with particular focus on low-resource and low-income country (LMIC) settings such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Farjana Yesmin

The rise of general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), has raised pressing moral questions about how to reduce bias and ensure fairness at scale. Researchers have documented a sort of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jacy Anthis , Kristian Lum , Michael Ekstrand , Avi Feller , Chenhao Tan

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into embedded devices, a paradigm known as embedded artificial intelligence (eAI) or tiny machine learning (TinyML), is transforming industries by enabling intelligent data processing at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mohammad Amin Hasanpour , Mikkel Kirkegaard , Xenofon Fafoutis

Many ML models are opaque to humans, producing decisions too complex for humans to easily understand. In response, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) tools that analyze the inner workings of a model have been created. Despite these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Kiana Alikhademi , Brianna Richardson , Emma Drobina , Juan E. Gilbert

Developing machine learning (ML) models requires a deep understanding of real-world problems, which are inherently multi-objective. In this paper, we present VirnyFlow, the first design space for responsible model development, designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Denys Herasymuk , Nazar Protsiv , Julia Stoyanovich

Fairness is a growing concern for high-risk decision-making using Artificial Intelligence (AI) but ensuring it through purely technical means is challenging: there is no universally accepted fairness measure, fairness is context-dependent,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Evdoxia Taka , Yuri Nakao , Ryosuke Sonoda , Takuya Yokota , Lin Luo , Simone Stumpf

Quantum optimisation is emerging as a promising approach alongside classical heuristics and specialised hardware, yet its performance is often difficult to assess fairly. Traditional benchmarking methods, rooted in digital complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Frank Phillipson

We present OxonFair, a new open source toolkit for enforcing fairness in binary classification. Compared to existing toolkits: (i) We support NLP and Computer Vision classification as well as standard tabular problems. (ii) We support…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Eoin Delaney , Zihao Fu , Sandra Wachter , Brent Mittelstadt , Chris Russell

As machine learning systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as criminal justice, finance, and healthcare, the demand for interpretable and trustworthy models has intensified. Despite the proliferation of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 James Afful

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous systems, offering powerful tools for innovation. Yet its rapid integration raises urgent ethical concerns related to data ownership, privacy,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Aasish Kumar Sharma , Dimitar Kyosev , Julian Kunkel

Although several fairness definitions and bias mitigation techniques exist in the literature, all existing solutions evaluate fairness of Machine Learning (ML) systems after the training stage. In this paper, we take the first steps towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Arumoy Shome , Luis Cruz , Arie van Deursen

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is used more than ever before to support users in determining efficient hyperparameters, neural architectures, or even full machine learning pipelines. However, users tend to mistrust the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 René Sass , Eddie Bergman , André Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter , Marius Lindauer

In this paper we describe the development and evaluation of AITK, the Artificial Intelligence Toolkit. This open-source project contains both Python libraries and computational essays (Jupyter notebooks) that together are designed to allow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Levin Ho , Morgan McErlean , Zehua You , Douglas Blank , Lisa Meeden

Intersectional fairness is a critical requirement for Machine Learning (ML) software, demanding fairness across subgroups defined by multiple protected attributes. This paper introduces FairHOME, a novel ensemble approach using higher order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhenpeng Chen , Xinyue Li , Jie M. Zhang , Federica Sarro , Yang Liu

The fast spreading adoption of machine learning (ML) by companies across industries poses significant regulatory challenges. One such challenge is scalability: how can regulatory bodies efficiently audit these ML models, ensuring that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Tom Yan , Chicheng Zhang