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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

With the widespread use of AI systems and applications in our everyday lives, it is important to take fairness issues into consideration while designing and engineering these types of systems. Such systems can be used in many sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Fred Morstatter , Nripsuta Saxena , Kristina Lerman , Aram Galstyan

In recent years, machine learning algorithms have become ubiquitous in a multitude of high-stakes decision-making applications. The unparalleled ability of machine learning algorithms to learn patterns from data also enables them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 José Pombal , André F. Cruz , João Bravo , Pedro Saleiro , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , Pedro Bizarro

Machine learning models are extensively being used to make decisions that have a significant impact on human life. These models are trained over historical data that may contain information about sensitive attributes such as race, sex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramanujam Madhavan , Mohit Wadhwa

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted increasing attentions in both academia and industry. In the early age, researchers mostly applied individual search methods which sample and evaluate the candidate architectures separately and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Kaifeng Bi , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Zhengsu Chen , Lanfei Wang , An Xiao , Jianlong Chang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian

As machine learning (ML) systems increasingly shape access to credit, jobs, and other opportunities, the fairness of algorithmic decisions has become a central concern. Yet it remains unclear when enforcing fairness constraints in these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Yi Yang , Xiangyu Chang , Pei-yu Chen

In medical image diagnosis, fairness has become increasingly crucial. Without bias mitigation, deploying unfair AI would harm the interests of the underprivileged population and potentially tear society apart. Recent research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching-Hao Chiu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

This project explores adversarial training techniques to develop fairer Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to mitigate the inherent bias they are known to exhibit. DNNs are susceptible to inheriting bias with respect to sensitive attributes such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Allen Minch , Hung Anh Vu , Anne Marie Warren

Despite being responsible for state-of-the-art results in several computer vision and natural language processing tasks, neural networks have faced harsh criticism due to some of their current shortcomings. One of them is that neural…

The digitization of healthcare data coupled with advances in computational capabilities has propelled the adoption of machine learning (ML) in healthcare. However, these methods can perpetuate or even exacerbate existing disparities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Qizhang Feng , Mengnan Du , Na Zou , Xia Hu

As machine learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly used in medical image analysis, concerns have emerged about their potential biases against certain social groups. Although many approaches have been proposed to ensure the fairness of ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Thai-Hoang Pham , Jiayuan Chen , Seungyeon Lee , Yuanlong Wang , Sayoko Moroi , Xueru Zhang , Ping Zhang

Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown remarkable promise in dermatology, offering accurate and non-invasive diagnosis of skin cancer. While extensive research has addressed skin tone-related bias, gender bias in dermatologic AI remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Mingcheng Zhu , Mingxuan Liu , Han Yuan , Yilin Ning , Zhiyao Luo , Tingting Zhu , Nan Liu

In recent years the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for automated medical image analysis has gained enormous momentum. At the same time, a large body of work has shown that AI systems can systematically and unfairly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 María Agustina Ricci Lara , Candelaria Mosquera , Enzo Ferrante , Rodrigo Echeveste

The present study performs a comprehensive fairness analysis of machine learning (ML) models for the diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) from MRI-derived neuroimaging features. Biases associated with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Maria Eleftheria Vlontzou , Maria Athanasiou , Christos Davatzikos , Konstantina S. Nikita

Data collected in the real world often encapsulates historical discrimination against disadvantaged groups and individuals. Existing fair machine learning (FairML) research has predominantly focused on mitigating discriminative bias in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhining Liu , Ruizhong Qiu , Zhichen Zeng , Yada Zhu , Hendrik Hamann , Hanghang Tong

Fairness in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models is becoming critically important, especially as decisions made by these systems impact diverse groups. In education, a vital sector for all countries, the widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nga Pham , Minh Kha Do , Tran Vu Dai , Pham Ngoc Hung , Anh Nguyen-Duc

Along with the progress of AI democratization, neural networks are being deployed more frequently in edge devices for a wide range of applications. Fairness concerns gradually emerge in many applications, such as face recognition and mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Yi Sheng , Junhuan Yang , Yawen Wu , Kevin Mao , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

The integration of diverse health data, such as IoT (Internet of Things), EHR (Electronic Health Record), and clinical surveys, with scalable AI(Artificial Intelligence) has enabled the identification of physical, behavioral, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Yidong Zhu , Shao-Hsien Liu , Mohammad Arif Ul Alam

Fairness is becoming a rising concern w.r.t. machine learning model performance. Especially for sensitive fields such as criminal justice and loan decision, eliminating the prediction discrimination towards a certain group of population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Xiaoqian Wang , Heng Huang

Privacy and fairness are two crucial pillars of responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and trustworthy Machine Learning (ML). Each objective has been independently studied in the literature with the aim of reducing utility loss in…