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Real-world datasets are often biased with respect to key demographic factors such as race and gender. Due to the latent nature of the underlying factors, detecting and mitigating bias is especially challenging for unsupervised machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Aditya Grover , Trisha Singh , Rui Shu , Stefano Ermon

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the leading approach for addressing graph analytical problems in various real-world scenarios. However, GNNs may produce biased predictions against certain demographic subgroups due to node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yonas Sium , Qi Li

As generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) technologies proliferate across sectors, they offer significant benefits but also risk exacerbating discrimination. This chapter explores how genAI intersects with non-discrimination laws,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Philipp Hacker

There are not one but two dimensions of bias that can be revealed through the study of large AI models: not only bias in training data or the products of an AI, but also bias in society, such as disparity in employment or health outcomes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Marinus Ferreira

The widespread adoption of generative AI models has raised growing concerns about representational harm and potential discriminatory outcomes. Yet, despite growing literature on this topic, the mechanisms by which bias emerges - especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiaofeng Zhang , Michelle Lin , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Aaron Courville , Yash Goyal

Disparities in the societal harms and impacts of Generative AI (GenAI) systems highlight the critical need for effective unfairness measurement approaches. While numerous benchmarks exist, designing valid measurements requires proper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kimberly Le Truong , Annette Zimmermann , Hoda Heidari

Generative AI does not only replicate human creativity but also reproduces deep-seated cultural biases, making it crucial to critically examine how concepts like ugliness are understood and expressed by these tools. This study investigates…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Garyoung Kim , Huisung Kwon , Seoju Yun , Yu-Won Youn

It is tempting to think that machines are less prone to unfairness and prejudice. However, machine learning approaches compute their outputs based on data. While biases can enter at any stage of the development pipeline, models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) advance face synthesis through learning the underlying distribution of observed data. Despite the high-quality generated faces, some minority groups can be rarely generated from the trained models due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shuhan Tan , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

When working with generative artificial intelligence (AI), users may see productivity gains, but the AI-generated content may not match their preferences exactly. To study this effect, we introduce a Bayesian framework in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Francisco Castro , Jian Gao , Sébastien Martin

AI-generated faces have enriched human life, such as entertainment, education, and art. However, they also pose misuse risks. Therefore, detecting AI-generated faces becomes crucial, yet current detectors show biased performance across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Li Lin , Santosh , Mingyang Wu , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

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

Perceptual estimates exhibit a reversal in bias depending on uncertainty: they shift toward prior expectations under high stimulus noise, but away from them when sensory noise dominates. The normative framework of a Bayesian observer model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-16 Hyun-Jun Jeon , Hansol Choi , Oh-Sang Kwon

We address the critical issue of biased algorithms and unfair rankings, which have permeated various sectors, including search engines, recommendation systems, and workforce management. These biases can lead to discriminatory outcomes in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chiara Criscuolo , Davide Martinenghi , Giuseppe Piccirillo

Machine learning systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet they remain vulnerable to bias systematic disparities that disproportionately impact specific demographic groups. Traditional bias detection methods often depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Chirudeep Tupakula , Rittika Shamsuddin

With the widespread use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning from network data, the fairness of GNN models has raised great attention lately. Fair GNNs aim to ensure that node representations can be accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guixian Zhang , Guan Yuan , Debo Cheng , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li , Shichao Zhang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are increasingly attracting attention in the computer vision, natural language processing, speech synthesis and similar domains. However, evaluating the performance of GANs is still an open and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zhengwei Wang , Qi She , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward , Graham Healy

With the rising adoption of Machine Learning across the domains like banking, pharmaceutical, ed-tech, etc, it has become utmost important to adopt responsible AI methods to ensure models are not unfairly discriminating against any group.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Bhushan Chaudhari , Himanshu Chaudhary , Aakash Agarwal , Kamna Meena , Tanmoy Bhowmik

As they have a vital effect on social decision-making, AI algorithms not only should be accurate and but also should not pose unfairness against certain sensitive groups (e.g., non-white, women). Various specially designed AI algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-23 Sara Kim , Kyusang Yu , Yongdai Kim

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks, leading to their increased adoption in high-stakes decision-making systems. However, concerns have arisen about GNNs potentially generating unfair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Anuj Kumar Sirohi , Anjali Gupta , Sandeep Kumar , Amitabha Bagchi , Sayan Ranu