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Rankings of people and items has been highly used in selection-making, match-making, and recommendation algorithms that have been deployed on ranging of platforms from employment websites to searching tools. The ranking position of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Consensus clustering, a fundamental task in machine learning and data analysis, aims to aggregate multiple input clusterings of a dataset, potentially based on different non-sensitive attributes, into a single clustering that best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Diptarka Chakraborty , Kushagra Chatterjee , Debarati Das , Tien Long Nguyen , Romina Nobahari

As machine learning systems are increasingly used to make real world legal and financial decisions, it is of paramount importance that we develop algorithms to verify that these systems do not discriminate against minorities. We design a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Osbert Bastani , Xin Zhang , Armando Solar-Lezama

We address the problem of algorithmic fairness: ensuring that sensitive variables do not unfairly influence the outcome of a classifier. We present an approach based on empirical risk minimization, which incorporates a fairness constraint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 Michele Donini , Luca Oneto , Shai Ben-David , John Shawe-Taylor , Massimiliano Pontil

Algorithmic systems have been used to inform consequential decisions for at least a century. Recidivism prediction dates back to the 1920s. Automated credit scoring dates began in the middle of the last century, but the last decade has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-13 David C. Parkes , Rakesh V. Vohra , other workshop participants

Recent work highlights the role of causality in designing equitable decision-making algorithms. It is not immediately clear, however, how existing causal conceptions of fairness relate to one another, or what the consequences are of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hamed Nilforoshan , Johann Gaebler , Ravi Shroff , Sharad Goel

Recently, the research community of computerized medical imaging has started to discuss and address potential fairness issues that may emerge when developing and deploying AI systems for medical image analysis. This chapter covers some of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Enzo Ferrante , Rodrigo Echeveste

Research in fair machine learning, and particularly clustering, has been crucial in recent years given the many ethical controversies that modern intelligent systems have posed. Ahmadian et al. [2020] established the study of fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Marina Knittel , Max Springer , John Dickerson , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

In recent years many important societal decisions are made by machine-learning algorithms, and many such important decisions have strict capacity limits, allowing resources to be allocated only to the highest utility individuals. For…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Eitan Bachmat , Inbal Livni Navon

There has been concern within the artificial intelligence (AI) community and the broader society regarding the potential lack of fairness of AI-based decision-making systems. Surprisingly, there is little work quantifying and guaranteeing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wenbin Zhang , Jeremy C. Weiss

Naively trained AI models can be heavily biased. This can be particularly problematic when the biases involve legally or morally protected attributes such as ethnic background, age or gender. Existing solutions to this problem come at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Nicholas Rosa , Tom Drummond , Mehrtash Harandi

Algorithmic fairness has attracted significant attention in the past years. Surprisingly, there is little work on fairness in networks. In this work, we consider fairness for link analysis algorithms and in particular for the celebrated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Sotiris Tsioutsiouliklis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas , Ilias Kleftakis , Nikos Mamoulis

Rankings on online platforms help their end-users find the relevant information -- people, news, media, and products -- quickly. Fair ranking tasks, which ask to rank a set of items to maximize utility subject to satisfying group-fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sruthi Gorantla , Anay Mehrotra , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

Notions of "fair classification" that have arisen in computer science generally revolve around equalizing certain statistics across protected groups. This approach has been criticized as ignoring societal issues, including how errors can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Govind Ramnarayan

Algorithmic decision-making in high-stakes settings can have profound impacts on individuals and populations. While much prior work studies fairness in static settings, recent results show that enforcing static fairness constraints may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shahin Jabbari , Chen Wang

The rapid developments of various machine learning models and their deployments in several applications has led to discussions around the importance of looking beyond the accuracies of these models. Fairness of such models is one such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Biswajit Rout , Ananya B. Sai , Arun Rajkumar

Given subsets of uncertain values, we study the problem of identifying the subset of minimum total value (sum of the uncertain values) by querying as few values as possible. This set selection problem falls into the field of explorable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter

Fairness is a fundamental requirement for trustworthy and human-centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) tend to make unfair predictions when the training data are collected from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Ruichen Yao , Ziteng Cui , Xiaoxiao Li , Lin Gu

Fairness is an important objective throughout society. From the distribution of limited goods such as education, over hiring and payment, to taxes, legislation, and jurisprudence. Due to the increasing importance of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Felix Störck , Fabian Hinder , Johannes Brinkrolf , Benjamin Paassen , Valerie Vaquet , Barbara Hammer

We consider fairness in submodular maximization subject to a knapsack constraint, a fundamental problem with various applications in economics, machine learning, and data mining. In the model, we are given a set of ground elements, each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lijun Li , Chenyang Xu , Liuyi Yang , Ruilong Zhang