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Computer Vision (CV) has achieved remarkable results, outperforming humans in several tasks. Nonetheless, it may result in significant discrimination if not handled properly as CV systems highly depend on the data they are fed with and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Simone Fabbrizzi , Symeon Papadopoulos , Eirini Ntoutsi , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in safety-critical applications, including law enforcement, yet they exhibit bias across a range of socio-demographic dimensions, such as gender and race. Conventional wisdom dictates that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Samuel Dooley , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , John P. Dickerson , Colin White , Frank Hutter , Micah Goldblum

Context: Fairness in systems has emerged as a critical concern in software engineering, garnering increasing attention as the field has advanced in recent years. While several guidelines have been proposed to address fairness, achieving a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kessia Nepomuceno , Fabio Petrillo

As one of the most pervasive applications of machine learning, recommender systems are playing an important role on assisting human decision making. The satisfaction of users and the interests of platforms are closely related to the quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yunqi Li , Hanxiong Chen , Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Shuchang Liu , Yongfeng Zhang

The significant advancements in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to healthcare decision-making, medical diagnosis, and other domains have simultaneously raised concerns about the fairness and bias of AI systems. This is particularly…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Emilio Ferrara

Machine learning (ML) algorithms play a critical role in decision-making across various domains, such as healthcare, finance, education, and law enforcement. However, concerns about fairness and bias in these systems have raised significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ahmed Rashed , Abdelkrim Kallich , Mohamed Eltayeb

Efforts to mitigate bias and enhance fairness in the artificial intelligence (AI) community have predominantly focused on technical solutions. While numerous reviews have addressed bias in AI, this review uniquely focuses on the practical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Abdoul Jalil Djiberou Mahamadou , Artem A. Trotsyuk

Mitigating bias in algorithmic systems is a critical issue drawing attention across communities within the information and computer sciences. Given the complexity of the problem and the involvement of multiple stakeholders -- including…

Speech technologies are deployed in high-stakes settings, yet fairness concerns remain fragmented across tasks and disciplines. Existing surveys either adopt a general machine-learning perspective that overlooks speech-specific properties…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yi-Cheng Lin , Yun-Shao Tsai , Kuan-Yu Chen , Hsiao-Ying Huang , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

Machine learning models often inherit biases from historical data, raising critical concerns about fairness and accountability. Conventional fairness interventions typically require access to sensitive attributes like gender or race, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yixiao Lin , James Booth

Ensuring fairness has emerged as one of the primary concerns in AI and its related algorithms. Over time, the field of machine learning fairness has evolved to address these issues. This paper provides an extensive overview of this field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Quan Zhou

Machine learning's widespread adoption in decision-making processes raises concerns about fairness, particularly regarding the treatment of sensitive features and potential discrimination against minorities. The software engineering…

Mitigating bias in automated decision-making systems, particularly in deep learning models, is a critical challenge due to nuanced definitions of fairness, dataset-specific biases, and the inherent trade-off between fairness and accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Charmaine Barker , Daniel Bethell , Dimitar Kazakov

This paper summarizes and evaluates various approaches, methods, and techniques for pursuing fairness in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It examines the merits and shortcomings of these measures and proposes practical guidelines for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Arash Bateni , Matthew C. Chan , Ray Eitel-Porter

Machine learning based systems are reaching society at large and in many aspects of everyday life. This phenomenon has been accompanied by concerns about the ethical issues that may arise from the adoption of these technologies. ML fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Luca Oneto , Silvia Chiappa

Cyberbullying is a widespread adverse phenomenon among online social interactions in today's digital society. While numerous computational studies focus on enhancing the cyberbullying detection performance of machine learning algorithms,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Oguzhan Gencoglu

Computer vision models learn to perform a task by capturing relevant statistics from training data. It has been shown that models learn spurious age, gender, and race correlations when trained for seemingly unrelated tasks like activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Zeyu Wang , Klint Qinami , Ioannis Christos Karakozis , Kyle Genova , Prem Nair , Kenji Hata , Olga Russakovsky

Recommender systems can strongly influence which information we see online, e.g., on social media, and thus impact our beliefs, decisions, and actions. At the same time, these systems can create substantial business value for different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yashar Deldjoo , Dietmar Jannach , Alejandro Bellogin , Alessandro Difonzo , Dario Zanzonelli

Machine learning systems have been shown to propagate the societal errors of the past. In light of this, a wealth of research focuses on designing solutions that are "fair." Even with this abundance of work, there is no singular definition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ninareh Mehrabi , Yuzhong Huang , Fred Morstatter

Machine Learning models have been deployed across many different aspects of society, often in situations that affect social welfare. Although these models offer streamlined solutions to large problems, they may contain biases and treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tal Feldman , Ashley Peake