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Fairness-aware machine learning has recently attracted various communities to mitigate discrimination against certain societal groups in data-driven tasks. For fair supervised learning, particularly in pre-processing, there have been two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinwon Sohn , Guang Lin , Qifan Song

Unsupervised domain adaptation for object detection is a challenging problem with many real-world applications. Unfortunately, it has received much less attention than supervised object detection. Models that try to address this task tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hongsong Wang , Shengcai Liao , Ling Shao

Standard supervised machine learning assumes that the distribution of the source samples used to train an algorithm is the same as the one of the target samples on which it is supposed to make predictions. However, as any data scientist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Pirmin Lemberger , Ivan Panico

When using machine learning for automated prediction, it is important to account for fairness in the prediction. Fairness in machine learning aims to ensure that biases in the data and model inaccuracies do not lead to discriminatory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jan Pablo Burgard , João Vitor Pamplona

Covariance-based data processing is widespread across signal processing and machine learning applications due to its ability to model data interconnectivities and dependencies. However, harmful biases in the data may become encoded in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Andrea Cavallo , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Elvin Isufi

Federated learning improves data privacy and efficiency in machine learning performed over networks of distributed devices, such as mobile phones, IoT and wearable devices, etc. Yet models trained with federated learning can still fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xingchao Peng , Zijun Huang , Yizhe Zhu , Kate Saenko

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to transfer discriminative features learned from source domain to target domain. Most of DA methods focus on enhancing feature transferability through domain-invariance learning. However, source-learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jun Wen , Changjian Shui , Kun Kuang , Junsong Yuan , Zenan Huang , Zhefeng Gong , Nenggan Zheng

Despite remarkable success in a variety of applications, it is well-known that deep learning can fail catastrophically when presented with out-of-distribution data. Toward addressing this challenge, we consider the domain generalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Alexander Robey , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

We initiate the study of fair classifiers that are robust to perturbations in the training distribution. Despite recent progress, the literature on fairness has largely ignored the design of fair and robust classifiers. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Debmalya Mandal , Samuel Deng , Suman Jana , Jeannette M. Wing , Daniel Hsu

The issue of fairness in machine learning stems from the fact that historical data often displays biases against specific groups of people which have been underprivileged in the recent past, or still are. In this context, one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mattia Cerrato , Marius Köppel , Alexander Segner , Stefan Kramer

We consider the problem of learning representations that achieve group and subgroup fairness with respect to multiple sensitive attributes. Taking inspiration from the disentangled representation learning literature, we propose an algorithm…

In this work, we propose a domain generalization (DG) approach to learn on several labeled source domains and transfer knowledge to a target domain that is inaccessible in training. Considering the inherent conditional and label shifts, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Xiaofeng Liu , Bo Hu , Linghao Jin , Xu Han , Fangxu Xing , Jinsong Ouyang , Jun Lu , Georges EL Fakhri , Jonghye Woo

In domain generalization, multiple labeled non-independent and non-identically distributed source domains are available during training while neither the data nor the labels of target domains are. Currently, learning so-called domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ziqi Wang , Marco Loog , Jan van Gemert

Multi-source domain adaptation aims to reduce performance degradation when applying machine learning models to unseen domains. A fundamental challenge is devising the optimal strategy for feature selection. Existing literature is somewhat…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Ziliang Samuel Zhong , Xiang Pan , Qi Lei

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated gratifying results at learning discriminative features. However, when applied to unseen domains, state-of-the-art models are usually prone to errors due to domain shift. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Rang Meng , Xianfeng Li , Weijie Chen , Shicai Yang , Jie Song , Xinchao Wang , Lei Zhang , Mingli Song , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

One method for obtaining generalizable solutions to machine learning tasks when presented with diverse training environments is to find \textit{invariant representations} of the data. These are representations of the covariates such that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Advait Parulekar , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Sanjay Shakkottai

Transformer-based tabular foundation models have recently demonstrated promising in-context learning (ICL) performance on structured data, emerging as competitive alternatives to gradient-boosted trees. However, the fairness implications of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Patrik Kenfack , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Ulrich Aïvodji

We present a novel and unified deep learning framework which is capable of learning domain-invariant representation from data across multiple domains. Realized by adversarial training with additional ability to exploit domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Alexander H. Liu , Yen-Cheng Liu , Yu-Ying Yeh , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Learning deep neural networks that are generalizable across different domains remains a challenge due to the problem of domain shift. Unsupervised domain adaptation is a promising avenue which transfers knowledge from a source domain to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Qingjie Meng , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz