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Econometrics · Economics 2025-05-29 Anders Bredahl Kock , David Preinerstorfer

Algorithmic fairness has become an important machine learning problem, especially for mission-critical Web applications. This work presents a self-supervised model, called DualFair, that can debias sensitive attributes like gender and race…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Sungwon Han , Seungeon Lee , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Chuhan Wu , Xiting Wang , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

As machine learning increasingly influences critical domains such as credit underwriting, public policy, and talent acquisition, ensuring compliance with fairness constraints is both a legal and ethical imperative. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Léandre Eberhard , Nirek Sharma , Filipp Shelobolin , Aalok Ganesh Shanbhag

Machine Learning (ML) models are widely employed to drive many modern data systems. While they are undeniably powerful tools, ML models often demonstrate imbalanced performance and unfair behaviors. The root of this problem often lies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ke Yang , Alexandra Meliou

Fairness-awareness has emerged as an essential building block for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in real applications. In many cases, inequity in performance is due to the change in distribution over different regions. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhihao Wang , Yiqun Xie , Zhili Li , Xiaowei Jia , Zhe Jiang , Aolin Jia , Shuo Xu

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Because machine learning has significantly improved efficiency and convenience in the society, it's increasingly used to assist or replace human decision-making. However, the data-based pattern makes related algorithms learn and even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingran Yang , Min Zhang , Lingfeng Zhang , Zhaohui Wang , Yonggang Zhang

It has been shown that dimension reduction methods such as PCA may be inherently prone to unfairness and treat data from different sensitive groups such as race, color, sex, etc., unfairly. In pursuit of fairness-enhancing dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Farzin Haddadpour , Rana Forsati , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Making data compliant with the FAIR Data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) is still a challenge for many researchers, who are not sure which criteria should be met first and how. Illustrated from experimental data…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-18 Daniel Jacob , Romain David , Sophie Aubin , Yves Gibon

The pursuit of fairness in machine learning (ML), ensuring that the models do not exhibit biases toward protected demographic groups, typically results in a compromise scenario. This compromise can be explained by a Pareto frontier where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jinlong Pang , Jialu Wang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yuanshun Yao , Chen Qian , Yang Liu

Improving fairness between privileged and less-privileged sensitive attribute groups (e.g, {race, gender}) has attracted lots of attention. To enhance the model performs uniformly well in different sensitive attributes, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qi Qi , Shervin Ardeshir , Yi Xu , Tianbao Yang

Fair Influence Maximization (FIM) seeks to mitigate disparities in influence across different groups and has recently garnered increasing attention. A widely adopted notion of fairness in FIM is the maximin constraint, which directly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiaobin Rui , Qiangpeng Fang , Chen Peng , Jilong Shi , Zhixiao Wang , Wei Chen

Despite their promise, fair machine learning methods often yield Pareto-inefficient models, in which the performance of certain groups can be improved without degrading that of others. This issue arises frequently in traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Sofiane Tanji , Samuel Vaiter , Yassine Laguel

Despite the success of large-scale empirical risk minimization (ERM) at achieving high accuracy across a variety of machine learning tasks, fair ERM is hindered by the incompatibility of fairness constraints with stochastic optimization. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Andrew Lowy , Sina Baharlouei , Rakesh Pavan , Meisam Razaviyayn , Ahmad Beirami

With the increasingly broad deployment of federated learning (FL) systems in the real world, it is critical but challenging to ensure fairness in FL, i.e. reasonably satisfactory performances for each of the numerous diverse clients. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Guojun Zhang , Saber Malekmohammadi , Xi Chen , Yaoliang Yu

Machine learning models are trained to minimize the mean loss for a single metric, and thus typically do not consider fairness and robustness. Neglecting such metrics in training can make these models prone to fairness violations when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Bobby Yan , Skyler Seto , Nicholas Apostoloff

Given a graph $G$, a community structure $\mathcal{C}$, and a budget $k$, the fair influence maximization problem aims to select a seed set $S$ ($|S|\leq k$) that maximizes the influence spread while narrowing the influence gap between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiaobin Rui , Zhixiao Wang , Jiayu Zhao , Lichao Sun , Wei Chen

Fairness is a growing area of machine learning (ML) that focuses on ensuring models do not produce systematically biased outcomes for specific groups, particularly those defined by protected attributes such as race, gender, or age.…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-14 Benjamin Smith , Jianhui Gao , Jessica Gronsbell

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights the necessity for ethical considerations and data integrity in AI development, particularly emphasizing the role of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Shaina Raza , Shardul Ghuge , Chen Ding , Elham Dolatabadi , Deval Pandya

Federated learning is an increasingly popular paradigm that enables a large number of entities to collaboratively learn better models. In this work, we study minimax group fairness in federated learning scenarios where different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Afroditi Papadaki , Natalia Martinez , Martin Bertran , Guillermo Sapiro , Miguel Rodrigues