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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

As recent literature has demonstrated how classifiers often carry unintended biases toward some subgroups, deploying machine learned models to users demands careful consideration of the social consequences. How should we address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Flavien Prost , Hai Qian , Qiuwen Chen , Ed H. Chi , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel

Training sample re-weighting is an effective approach for tackling data biases such as imbalanced and corrupted labels. Recent methods develop learning-based algorithms to learn sample re-weighting strategies jointly with model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zizhao Zhang , Tomas Pfister

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) assigns soft labels, a.k.a. degrees, to a sample. In reality, it is always laborious to obtain complete degrees, giving birth to the Incomplete LDL (InLDL). However, InLDL often suffers from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiang Li , Songcan Chen

Fairness-aware domain generalization (FairDG) has emerged as a critical challenge for deploying trustworthy AI systems, particularly in scenarios involving distribution shifts. Traditional methods for addressing fairness have failed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yujie Lin , Dong Li , Minglai Shao , Guihong Wan , Chen Zhao

Fairness in machine learning has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The fairness methods improving algorithmic fairness for in-distribution data may not perform well under distribution shifts. In this paper, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhimeng Jiang , Xiaotian Han , Hongye Jin , Guanchu Wang , Rui Chen , Na Zou , Xia Hu

With the emerging application of Federated Learning (FL) in finance, hiring and healthcare, FL models are regulated to be fair, preventing disparities with respect to legally protected attributes such as race or gender. Two concepts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuying Duan , Gelei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Michael Lemmon

Applying deep learning to science is a new trend in recent years which leads DL engineering to become an important problem. Although training data preparation, model architecture design, and model training are the normal processes to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Maxime Cordy , Xiaofei Xie , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Fairness in classification tasks has traditionally focused on bias removal from neural representations, but recent trends favor algorithmic methods that embed fairness into the training process. These methods steer models towards fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Leon Eshuijs , Shihan Wang , Antske Fokkens

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) enables privacy-preserving, distributed training of graph neural networks without sharing raw data. Among its approaches, subgraph-FL has become the dominant paradigm, with most work focused on improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhengyu Wu , Boyang Pang , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Daohan Su , Bowen Fan , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Machine learning models are trained to minimize the mean loss for a single metric, and thus typically do not consider fairness and robustness. Neglecting such metrics in training can make these models prone to fairness violations when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Bobby Yan , Skyler Seto , Nicholas Apostoloff

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

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a resource (loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (loans given that are repaid or criminals that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Hadi Elzayn , Shahin Jabbari , Christopher Jung , Michael Kearns , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Zachary Schutzman

Continual semantic segmentation aims to learn new classes while maintaining the information from the previous classes. Although prior studies have shown impressive progress in recent years, the fairness concern in the continual semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Thanh-Dat Truong , Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Bhiksha Raj , Khoa Luu

The problem of devising learning strategies for discrete losses (e.g., multilabeling, ranking) is currently addressed with methods and theoretical analyses ad-hoc for each loss. In this paper we study a least-squares framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Alex Nowak-Vila , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

Employing Large Language Models (LLM) in various downstream applications such as classification is crucial, especially for smaller companies lacking the expertise and resources required for fine-tuning a model. Fairness in LLMs helps ensure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Garima Chhikara , Anurag Sharma , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Abhijnan Chakraborty

Deep Learning heavily depends on large labeled datasets which limits further improvements. While unlabeled data is available in large amounts, in particular in image recognition, it does not fulfill the closed world assumption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Maximilian Augustin , Matthias Hein

In aligning large language models (LLMs), reward models have played an important role, but are standardly trained as discriminative models and rely only on labeled human preference data. In this paper, we explore methods that train reward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chenglong Wang , Yang Gan , Yifu Huo , Yongyu Mu , Qiaozhi He , Murun Yang , Bei Li , Tong Xiao , Chunliang Zhang , Tongran Liu , Jingbo Zhu

Large Language Model-enhanced Recommender Systems (LLM-enhanced RSs) have emerged as a powerful approach to improving recommendation quality by leveraging LLMs to generate item representations. Despite these advancements, the integration of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaming Zhang , Yuyuan Li , Yiqun Xu , Li Zhang , Xiaohua Feng , Zhifei Ren , Chaochao Chen

Recommender system is a widely adopted technology in a diversified class of product lines. Modern day recommender system approaches include matrix factorization, learning to rank and deep learning paradigms, etc. Unlike many other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Hao Wang