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Developing learning methods which do not discriminate subgroups in the population is a central goal of algorithmic fairness. One way to reach this goal is by modifying the data representation in order to meet certain fairness constraints.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 Luca Oneto , Michele Donini , Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil

Fairness across different demographic groups is an essential criterion for face-related tasks, Face Attribute Classification (FAC) being a prominent example. Apart from this trend, Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly gaining traction as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Samhita Kanaparthy , Manisha Padala , Sankarshan Damle , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla , Sujit Gujar

The increasing amount of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led researchers to study the social impact of these technologies and evaluate their fairness. Unfortunately, current fairness metrics are hard to apply in multi-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

Fairness in machine learning (ML) has a critical importance for building trustworthy machine learning system as artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly impact various aspects of society, including healthcare decisions and legal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Modar Sulaiman , Kallol Roy

Learning discriminative face features plays a major role in building high-performing face recognition models. The recent state-of-the-art face recognition solutions proposed to incorporate a fixed penalty margin on commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Ensuring fairness in Graph Neural Networks is fundamental to promoting trustworthy and socially responsible machine learning systems. In response, numerous fair graph learning methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zichong Wang , Zhipeng Yin , Liping Yang , Jun Zhuang , Rui Yu , Qingzhao Kong , Wenbin Zhang

Fairness in human-robot interaction critically depends on the reliability of the perceptual models that enable robots to interpret human behavior. While demographic biases have been widely studied in high-level facial analysis tasks, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Pablo Parte , Roberto Valle , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

Published research highlights the presence of demographic bias in automated facial attribute classification algorithms, particularly impacting women and individuals with darker skin tones. Existing bias mitigation techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ayesha Manzoor , Ajita Rattani

We propose a discrimination-aware learning method to improve both accuracy and fairness of biased face recognition algorithms. The most popular face recognition benchmarks assume a distribution of subjects without paying much attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Manuel Cebrian , Nick Obradovich , Iyad Rahwan

In the field of face recognition, it is always a hot research topic to improve the loss solution to make the face features extracted by the network have greater discriminative power. Research works in recent years has improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Meng Sang , Jiaxuan Chen , Mengzhen Li , Pan Tan , Anning Pan , Shan Zhao , Yang Yang

Demographic bias is a significant challenge in practical face recognition systems. Existing methods heavily rely on accurate demographic annotations. However, such annotations are usually unavailable in real scenarios. Moreover, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Xingkun Xu , Yuge Huang , Pengcheng Shen , Shaoxin Li , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Yong Li , Zhen Cui

In recent years, significant progress has been made in face recognition, which can be partially attributed to the availability of large-scale labeled face datasets. However, since the faces in these datasets usually contain limited degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yichun Shi , Anil K. Jain

Much of the previous machine learning (ML) fairness literature assumes that protected features such as race and sex are present in the dataset, and relies upon them to mitigate fairness concerns. However, in practice factors like privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Preethi Lahoti , Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Kang Lee , Flavien Prost , Nithum Thain , Xuezhi Wang , Ed H. Chi

Large-scale ASR models have achieved remarkable gains in accuracy and robustness. However, fairness issues remain largely unaddressed despite their critical importance in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce FairASR, a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Jongsuk Kim , Jaemyung Yu , Minchan Kwon , Junmo Kim

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr

The widespread integration of face recognition technologies into various applications (e.g., access control and personalized advertising) necessitates a critical emphasis on fairness. While previous efforts have focused on demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yifan Liu , Ruichen Yao , Yaokun Liu , Ruohan Zong , Zelin Li , Yang Zhang , Dong Wang

The growing public concerns on data privacy in face recognition can be greatly addressed by the federated learning (FL) paradigm. However, conventional FL methods perform poorly due to the uniqueness of the task: broadcasting class centers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qiang Meng , Feng Zhou , Hainan Ren , Tianshu Feng , Guochao Liu , Yuanqing Lin

As learning-to-rank models are increasingly deployed for decision-making in areas with profound life implications, the FairML community has been developing fair learning-to-rank (LTR) models. These models rely on the availability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Oluseun Olulana , Kathleen Cachel , Fabricio Murai , Elke Rundensteiner

As machine learning systems become increasingly integrated into human-centered domains such as healthcare, ensuring fairness while maintaining high predictive performance is critical. Existing bias mitigation techniques often impose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xuwei Tan , Yuanlong Wang , Thai-Hoang Pham , Ping Zhang , Xueru Zhang

We address the problem of bias in automated face recognition and demographic attribute estimation algorithms, where errors are lower on certain cohorts belonging to specific demographic groups. We present a novel de-biasing adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Sixue Gong , Xiaoming Liu , Anil K. Jain