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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…

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In an era characterized by the pervasive integration of artificial intelligence into decision-making processes across diverse industries, the demand for trust has never been more pronounced. This thesis embarks on a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-18 Alessandro Castelnovo

Electronic Health Record (EHR) data encompass diverse modalities -- text, images, and medical codes -- that are vital for clinical decision-making. To process these complex data, multimodal AI (MAI) has emerged as a powerful approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nikkie Hooman , Zhongjie Wu , Eric C. Larson , Mehak Gupta

Successful deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in various settings has led to numerous positive outcomes for individuals and society. However, AI systems have also been shown to harm parts of the population due to biased predictions.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ondrej Bohdal , Timothy Hospedales , Philip H. S. Torr , Fazl Barez

In the past decade, the deployment of deep learning (Artificial Intelligence (AI)) methods has become pervasive across a spectrum of real-world applications, often in safety-critical contexts. This comprehensive research article rigorously…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Sidra Nasir , Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Samita Bai

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for medical image reasoning, yet fairness across demographic groups remains a major concern. Existing debiasing methods often rely on large labeled datasets or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dawei Li , Zijian Gu , Peng Wang , Chuhan Song , Zhen Tan , Mohan Zhang , Tianlong Chen , Yu Tian , Song Wang

Fairness has become increasingly pivotal in medical image recognition. However, without mitigating bias, deploying unfair medical AI systems could harm the interests of underprivileged populations. In this paper, we observe that while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ching-Hao Chiu , Hao-Wei Chung , Yu-Jen Chen , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Machine learning models built on datasets containing discriminative instances attributed to various underlying factors result in biased and unfair outcomes. It's a well founded and intuitive fact that existing bias mitigation strategies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Bhushan Chaudhari , Akash Agarwal , Tanmoy Bhowmik

Foundation models (FMs) are general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) models that have recently enabled multiple brand-new generative AI applications. The rapid advances in FMs serve as an important contextual backdrop for the vision of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zihan Chen , Howard H. Yang , Y. C. Tay , Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Tony Q. S. Quek

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has paved the way for revolutionary decision-making processes, which if harnessed appropriately, can contribute to advancements in various sectors, from healthcare to economics. However, its black box nature…

Prioritizing fairness is of central importance in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially for those societal applications, e.g., hiring systems should recommend applicants equally from different demographic groups, and risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Zhibo Wang , Xiaowei Dong , Henry Xue , Zhifei Zhang , Weifeng Chiu , Tao Wei , Kui Ren

Ensuring fairness in decentralized multi-agent systems presents significant challenges due to emergent biases, systemic inefficiencies, and conflicting agent incentives. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of fairness in multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rajesh Ranjan , Shailja Gupta , Surya Narayan Singh

The use of AI in healthcare has the potential to improve patient care, optimize clinical workflows, and enhance decision-making. However, bias, data incompleteness, and inaccuracies in training datasets can lead to unfair outcomes and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Marjia Siddik , Harshvardhan J. Pandit

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for transforming healthcare, particularly in disease diagnosis, prognosis, and patient care. The increasing availability of digital medical data, such as images, omics, biosignals, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Pedro A. Moreno-Sánchez , Javier Del Ser , Mark van Gils , Jussi Hernesniemi

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about our ability to ensure their fairness, that is, how to avoid discrimination based on protected characteristics such as gender, race, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar , MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

Healthcare disparities persist across socioeconomic boundaries, often attributed to unequal access to screening, diagnostics, and therapeutics. However, this perspective highlights that critical biases can emerge much earlier, during data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Michal Rosen-Zvi , Yoav Kan-Tor , Michael Danziger , Agata Ferretti , Javier Aula-Blasco , Julia Falcao , Ron Shamir , Mordechai Muszkat

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming medical imaging by enabling capabilities such as data synthesis, image enhancement, modality translation, and spatiotemporal modeling. This review presents a comprehensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Xuanru Zhou , Cheng Li , Shuqiang Wang , Ye Li , Tao Tan , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an important driving force for the development and transformation of the financial industry. However, with the fast-evolving AI technology and application, unintentional bias, insufficient model validation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-17 Yukun Zhang , Longsheng Zhou

Foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated strong transferability across medical imaging tasks, yet their clinical utility depends critically on how pretrained representations are adapted to domain-specific data, supervision regimes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Karma Phuntsho , Abdullah , Kyungmi Lee , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

The widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in consequential domains, such as healthcare and parole decision-making systems, has drawn intense scrutiny on the fairness of these methods. However, ensuring fairness is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Ninareh Mehrabi , Umang Gupta , Fred Morstatter , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan