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Mitigating bias in machine learning models is a critical endeavor for ensuring fairness and equity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address bias by leveraging pixel image attributions to identify and regularize regions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sander De Coninck , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing machine learning (ML) models that can promote fairness, i.e., eliminating biased predictions towards certain populations (e.g., individuals from a specific demographic group). Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Song Wang , Jing Ma , Lu Cheng , Jundong Li

Bias originates from both data and algorithmic design, often exacerbated by traditional fairness methods that fail to address the subtle impacts of protected attributes. This study introduces an approach to mitigate bias in machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Khadija Zanna , Akane Sano

Predictive modeling is increasingly being employed to assist human decision-makers. One purported advantage of replacing human judgment with computer models in high stakes settings-- such as sentencing, hiring, policing, college admissions,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-27 Kristian Lum , James Johndrow

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

Data-driven algorithms play a large role in decision making across a variety of industries. Increasingly, these algorithms are being used to make decisions that have significant ramifications for people's social and economic well-being,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 J. Henry Hinnefeld , Peter Cooman , Nat Mammo , Rupert Deese

Learning with noisy labels aims to ensure model generalization given a label-corrupted training set. The sample selection strategy achieves promising performance by selecting a label-reliable subset for model training. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Qi Wei , Lei Feng , Haobo Wang , Bo An

Subset selection algorithms are ubiquitous in AI-driven applications, including, online recruiting portals and image search engines, so it is imperative that these tools are not discriminatory on the basis of protected attributes such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Anay Mehrotra , L. Elisa Celis

Addressing fairness concerns about machine learning models is a crucial step towards their long-term adoption in real-world automated systems. While many approaches have been developed for training fair models from data, little is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Nikola Konstantinov , Christoph H. Lampert

Classification with abstention has gained a lot of attention in recent years as it allows to incorporate human decision-makers in the process. Yet, abstention can potentially amplify disparities and lead to discriminatory predictions. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-25 Nicolas Schreuder , Evgenii Chzhen

Training datasets for machine learning often have some form of missingness. For example, to learn a model for deciding whom to give a loan, the available training data includes individuals who were given a loan in the past, but not those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Naman Goel , Alfonso Amayuelas , Amit Deshpande , Amit Sharma

How can we control for latent discrimination in predictive models? How can we provably remove it? Such questions are at the heart of algorithmic fairness and its impacts on society. In this paper, we define a new operational fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Soheil Ghili , Ehsan Kazemi , Amin Karbasi

Machine learning actively impacts our everyday life in almost all endeavors and domains such as healthcare, finance, and energy. As our dependence on the machine learning increases, it is inevitable that these algorithms will be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro

Fairness and robustness are critical elements of Trustworthy AI that need to be addressed together. Fairness is about learning an unbiased model while robustness is about learning from corrupted data, and it is known that addressing only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

Fairness is a critical requirement for Machine Learning (ML) software, driving the development of numerous bias mitigation methods. Previous research has identified a leveling-down effect in bias mitigation for computer vision and natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Zhenpeng Chen , Xinyue Li , Jie M. Zhang , Weisong Sun , Ying Xiao , Tianlin Li , Yiling Lou , Yang Liu

This paper addresses significant obstacles that arise from the widespread use of machine learning models in the insurance industry, with a specific focus on promoting fairness. The initial challenge lies in effectively leveraging unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Romuald Elie , Caroline Hillairet , François Hu , Marc Juillard

We tackle the problem of bias mitigation of algorithmic decisions in a setting where both the output of the algorithm and the sensitive variable are continuous. Most of prior work deals with discrete sensitive variables, meaning that the…

Undesirable biases encoded in the data are key drivers of algorithmic discrimination. Their importance is widely recognized in the algorithmic fairness literature, as well as legislation and standards on anti-discrimination in AI. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marina Ceccon , Giandomenico Cornacchia , Davide Dalle Pezze , Alessandro Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

In consequential decision-making applications, mitigating unwanted biases in machine learning models that yield systematic disadvantage to members of groups delineated by sensitive attributes such as race and gender is one key intervention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Prasanna Sattigeri , Soumya Ghosh , Inkit Padhi , Pierre Dognin , Kush R. Varshney

The use of algorithmic (learning-based) decision making in scenarios that affect human lives has motivated a number of recent studies to investigate such decision making systems for potential unfairness, such as discrimination against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Junaid Ali , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Adish Singla , Krishna P. Gummadi