English
Related papers

Related papers: A Comprehensive Sustainable Framework for Machine …

200 papers

Algorithmic fairness has become a central concern in computational decision-making systems, where ensuring equitable outcomes is essential for both ethical and legal reasons. Two dominant notions of fairness have emerged in the literature:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Blas Kolic , Victoria Menendez , Belén Pulido

Sustainable AI is a subfield of AI for concerning developing and using AI systems in ways of aiming to reduce environmental impact and achieve sustainability. Sustainable AI is increasingly important given that training of and inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tao Xie , David Harel , Dezhi Ran , Zhenwen Li , Maoliang Li , Zhi Yang , Leye Wang , Xiang Chen , Ying Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Meng Li , Chen Zhang , Linyi Li , Assaf Marron

Bias mitigators can improve algorithmic fairness in machine learning models, but their effect on fairness is often not stable across data splits. A popular approach to train more stable models is ensemble learning, but unfortunately, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Michael Feffer , Martin Hirzel , Samuel C. Hoffman , Kiran Kate , Parikshit Ram , Avraham Shinnar

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Federated learning enables machine learning algorithms to be trained over a network of multiple decentralized edge devices without requiring the exchange of local datasets. Successfully deploying federated learning requires ensuring that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Meng Zhang , Ermin Wei , Randall Berry

The definition and implementation of fairness in automated decisions has been extensively studied by the research community. Yet, there hides fallacious reasoning, misleading assertions, and questionable practices at the foundations of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Robert Lee Poe , Soumia Zohra El Mestari

Modern AI systems are reaping the advantage of novel learning methods. With their increasing usage, we are realizing the limitations and shortfalls of these systems. Brittleness to minor adversarial changes in the input data, ability to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Nalini Ratha

Consumer's privacy is a main concern in Smart Grids (SGs) due to the sensitivity of energy data, particularly when used to train machine learning models for different services. These data-driven models often require huge amounts of data to…

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving data privacy; however, balancing privacy preservation (PP) and fairness poses significant challenges. In this paper, we present the first unified large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dawood Wasif , Dian Chen , Sindhuja Madabushi , Nithin Alluru , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

At the intersection of the cutting-edge technologies and privacy concerns, Federated Learning (FL) with its distributed architecture, stands at the forefront in a bid to facilitate collaborative model training across multiple clients while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Training and deploying Machine Learning models that simultaneously adhere to principles of fairness and privacy while ensuring good utility poses a significant challenge. The interplay between these three factors of trustworthiness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Luca Corbucci , Mikko A Heikkila , David Solans Noguero , Anna Monreale , Nicolas Kourtellis

This paper clarifies why bias cannot be completely mitigated in Machine Learning (ML) and proposes an end-to-end methodology to translate the ethical principle of justice and fairness into the practice of ML development as an ongoing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Georgina Curto , Flavio Comim

In the last few decades, Machine Learning (ML) has achieved significant success across domains ranging from healthcare, sustainability, and the social sciences, to criminal justice and finance. But its deployment in increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Nathan Justin , Qingshi Sun , Andrés Gómez , Phebe Vayanos

As machine learning increasingly influences critical domains such as credit underwriting, public policy, and talent acquisition, ensuring compliance with fairness constraints is both a legal and ethical imperative. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Léandre Eberhard , Nirek Sharma , Filipp Shelobolin , Aalok Ganesh Shanbhag

Responsible AI is becoming critical as AI is widely used in our everyday lives. Many companies that deploy AI publicly state that when training a model, we not only need to improve its accuracy, but also need to guarantee that the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Steven Euijong Whang , Ki Hyun Tae , Yuji Roh , Geon Heo

Federated learning (FL) is a new distributed learning paradigm, with privacy, utility, and efficiency as its primary pillars. Existing research indicates that it is unlikely to simultaneously attain infinitesimal privacy leakage, utility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xiaojin Zhang , Anbu Huang , Lixin Fan , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

This paper examines two different yet related questions related to explainable AI (XAI) practices. Machine learning (ML) is increasingly important in financial services, such as pre-approval, credit underwriting, investments, and various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Swati Tyagi

To implement fair machine learning in a sustainable way, choosing the right fairness objective is key. Since fairness is a concept of justice which comes in various, sometimes conflicting definitions, this is not a trivial task though. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Boris Ruf , Marcin Detyniecki

As the decisions made or influenced by machine learning models increasingly impact our lives, it is crucial to detect, understand, and mitigate unfairness. But even simply determining what "unfairness" should mean in a given context is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Tom Begley , Tobias Schwedes , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige

Over the past few years, the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been reshaped by the emergence of Foundation Models (FMs). Pre-trained on massive datasets, these models exhibit exceptional performance across diverse downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenghui Li , Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Jiaxu Zhao , Yun-Hin Chan , Edith C. H. Ngai , Thiemo Voigt