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Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

In this paper, we address the limitations of existing text-to-image diffusion models in generating demographically fair results when given human-related descriptions. These models often struggle to disentangle the target language context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jia Li , Lijie Hu , Jingfeng Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Hua Zhang , Di Wang

Image generation is a prevailing technique for clinical data augmentation for advancing diagnostic accuracy and reducing healthcare disparities. Diffusion Model (DM) has become a leading method in generating synthetic medical images, but it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ruichen Zhang , Yuguang Yao , Zhen Tan , Zhiming Li , Pan Wang , Huan Liu , Jingtong Hu , Sijia Liu , Tianlong Chen

Text-to-image diffusion models often exhibit biases toward specific demographic groups, such as generating more males than females when prompted to generate images of engineers, raising ethical concerns and limiting their adoption. In this…

Fairness is an important topic for medical image analysis, driven by the challenge of unbalanced training data among diverse target groups and the societal demand for equitable medical quality. In response to this issue, our research adopts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Wenyi Li , Haoran Xu , Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Mengyu Wang , Hao Zhao

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Image generative models, particularly diffusion-based models, have surged in popularity due to their remarkable ability to synthesize highly realistic images. However, since these models are data-driven, they inherit biases from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lin-Chun Huang , Ching Chieh Tsao , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly those based on deep learning models, have increasingly achieved expert-level performance in medical applications. However, there is growing concern that such AI systems may reflect and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiuying Chen , Tairan Wang , Juexiao Zhou , Zirui Song , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Text-to-image generative AI models such as Stable Diffusion are used daily by millions worldwide. However, the extent to which these models exhibit racial and gender stereotypes is not yet fully understood. Here, we document significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Nouar AlDahoul , Talal Rahwan , Yasir Zaki

Deep learning methods have impacted almost every research field, demonstrating notable successes in medical imaging tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. However, the prerequisite for deep learning is data at scale, but data sharing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang

Diffusion models have emerged as a robust framework for various generative tasks, including tabular data synthesis. However, current tabular diffusion models tend to inherit bias in the training dataset and generate biased synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeyu Yang , Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Khadija Zanna , Xiaoxue Yang , Akane Sano

Computer vision models have been known to encode harmful biases, leading to the potentially unfair treatment of historically marginalized groups, such as people of color. However, there remains a lack of datasets balanced along demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nicholas Lui , Bryan Chia , William Berrios , Candace Ross , Douwe Kiela

While Diffusion Models (DM) exhibit remarkable performance across various image generative tasks, they nonetheless reflect the inherent bias presented in the training set. As DMs are now widely used in real-world applications, these biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yilei Jiang , Weihong Li , Yiyuan Zhang , Minghong Cai , Xiangyu Yue

Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse images from natural language prompts. However, recent studies reveal that these models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zihao Fu , Ryan Brown , Shun Shao , Kai Rawal , Eoin Delaney , Chris Russell

AI fairness seeks to improve the transparency and explainability of AI systems by ensuring that their outcomes genuinely reflect the best interests of users. Data augmentation, which involves generating synthetic data from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christina Hastings Blow , Lijun Qian , Camille Gibson , Pamela Obiomon , Xishuang Dong

Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but inherit and amplify training-data biases, skewing coverage of semantic attributes. Prior work addresses this in two ways. Closed-set approaches mitigate biases in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Silpa Vadakkeeveetil Sreelatha , Dan Wang , Serge Belongie , Muhammad Awais , Anjan Dutta

Text-to-image diffusion models have been adopted into key commercial workflows, such as art generation and image editing. Characterising the implicit social biases they exhibit, such as gender and racial stereotypes, is a necessary first…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Adhithya Prakash Saravanan , Rafal Kocielnik , Roy Jiang , Pengrui Han , Anima Anandkumar

Diffusion-based learning has settled as a rising paradigm in generative recommendation, outperforming traditional approaches built upon variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Despite their effectiveness, concerns have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Daniele Malitesta , Giacomo Medda , Erasmo Purificato , Mirko Marras , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Ludovico Boratto

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
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