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Fairness and accountability are two essential pillars for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. However, the existing AI model may be biased in its decision marking. To tackle this issue, we propose an adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xiaoxiao Li , Ziteng Cui , Yifan Wu , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada

As AI systems become more embedded in everyday life, the development of fair and unbiased models becomes more critical. Considering the social impact of AI systems is not merely a technical challenge but a moral imperative. As evidenced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Aida Tayebi , Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

Automated data-driven decision making systems are increasingly being used to assist, or even replace humans in many settings. These systems function by learning from historical decisions, often taken by humans. In order to maximize the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-10 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

Deep neural networks often rely on spurious correlations in training data, leading to biased or unfair predictions in safety-critical domains such as medicine and autonomous driving. While conventional bias mitigation typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sai Siddhartha Chary Aylapuram , Veeraraju Elluru , Shivang Agarwal

The development of fair and unbiased machine learning models remains an ongoing objective for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. We introduce the Differential Adjusted Parity (DAP) loss to produce unbiased informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Concerns regarding fairness and bias have been raised in recent years due to the growing use of machine learning models in crucial decision-making processes, especially when it comes to delicate characteristics like gender. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Saish Shinde

Understanding and removing bias from the decisions made by machine learning models is essential to avoid discrimination against unprivileged groups. Despite recent progress in algorithmic fairness, there is still no clear answer as to which…

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in image classification and segmentation tasks. However, fairness concerns persist, as models often exhibit biases that disproportionately affect demographic groups defined by sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Milad Masroor , Tahir Hassan , Yu Tian , Kevin Wells , David Rosewarne , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-06 Niki Kilbertus , Adrià Gascón , Matt J. Kusner , Michael Veale , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adrian Weller

Deep learning models have shown promise in improving diagnostic accuracy from chest X-rays, but they also risk perpetuating healthcare disparities when performance varies across demographic groups. In this work, we present a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Clemence Mottez , Louisa Fay , Maya Varma , Sophie Ostmeier , Curtis Langlotz

Bias mitigation in machine learning models is imperative, yet challenging. While several approaches have been proposed, one view towards mitigating bias is through adversarial learning. A discriminator is used to identify the bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Vinod K Kurmi , Rishabh Sharma , Yash Vardhan Sharma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

With the widespread adoption of machine learning in the real world, the impact of the discriminatory bias has attracted attention. In recent years, various methods to mitigate the bias have been proposed. However, most of them have not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kenji Kobayashi , Yuri Nakao

Deep learning is increasingly being used in high-stake decision making applications that affect individual lives. However, deep learning models might exhibit algorithmic discrimination behaviors with respect to protected groups, potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengnan Du , Fan Yang , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Training data used for developing machine learning classifiers can exhibit biases against specific protected attributes. Such biases typically originate from historical discrimination or certain underlying patterns that disproportionately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Anam Zahid , Abdur Rehman Ali , Shaina Raza , Rai Shahnawaz , Faisal Kamiran , Asim Karim

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius

Deep neural networks for image-based screening and computer-aided diagnosis have achieved expert-level performance on various medical imaging modalities, including chest radiographs. Recently, several works have indicated that these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ričards Marcinkevičs , Ece Ozkan , Julia E. Vogt

There has been an increase in research in developing machine learning models for mental health detection or prediction in recent years due to increased mental health issues in society. Effective use of mental health prediction or detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Khadija Zanna , Kusha Sridhar , Han Yu , Akane Sano

Trained classification models can unintentionally lead to biased representations and predictions, which can reinforce societal preconceptions and stereotypes. Existing debiasing methods for classification models, such as adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Aili Shen , Xudong Han , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin , Lea Frermann

We consider training machine learning models that are fair in the sense that their performance is invariant under certain sensitive perturbations to the inputs. For example, the performance of a resume screening system should be invariant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-16 Mikhail Yurochkin , Amanda Bower , Yuekai Sun

Presence of bias (in datasets or tasks) is inarguably one of the most critical challenges in machine learning applications that has alluded to pivotal debates in recent years. Such challenges range from spurious associations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Ehsan Adeli , Qingyu Zhao , Adolf Pfefferbaum , Edith V. Sullivan , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles , Kilian M. Pohl