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It is now well understood that machine learning models, trained on data without due care, often exhibit unfair and discriminatory behavior against certain populations. Traditional algorithmic fairness research has mainly focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Rashidul Islam , Shimei Pan , James R. Foulds

Fairness is becoming a rising concern w.r.t. machine learning model performance. Especially for sensitive fields such as criminal justice and loan decision, eliminating the prediction discrimination towards a certain group of population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Xiaoqian Wang , Heng Huang

With growing emphasis on privacy regulations, machine unlearning has become increasingly critical in real-world applications such as social networks and recommender systems, many of which are naturally represented as graphs. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Ziheng Chen , Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri , Kaushiki Nag , Lu Lin , Sijia Liu , Xiangguo Sun , Gabriele Tolomei

Across machine learning (ML) sub-disciplines, researchers make explicit mathematical assumptions in order to facilitate proof-writing. We note that, specifically in the area of fairness-accuracy trade-off optimization scholarship, similar…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-09 A. Feder Cooper , Ellen Abrams

Adversarial training has been shown to be reliable in improving robustness against adversarial samples. However, the problem of adversarial training in terms of fairness has not yet been properly studied, and the relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Junyi Chai , Xiaoqian Wang

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser

With growing awareness of societal impact of artificial intelligence, fairness has become an important aspect of machine learning algorithms. The issue is that human biases towards certain groups of population, defined by sensitive features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Andrija Petrović , Mladen Nikolić , Sandro Radovanović , Boris Delibašić , Miloš Jovanović

Machine learning models are extensively being used to make decisions that have a significant impact on human life. These models are trained over historical data that may contain information about sensitive attributes such as race, sex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramanujam Madhavan , Mohit Wadhwa

Increasing concerns have been raised on deep learning fairness in recent years. Existing fairness-aware machine learning methods mainly focus on the fairness of in-distribution data. However, in real-world applications, it is common to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Haotao Wang , Junyuan Hong , Jiayu Zhou , Zhangyang Wang

In this study, we explore the inherent trade-off between accuracy and robustness in neural networks, drawing an analogy to the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. We propose that neural networks are subject to an uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jun-Jie Zhang , Dong-Xiao Zhang , Jian-Nan Chen , Long-Gang Pang , Deyu Meng

Machine unlearning, the process of selectively removing data from trained models, is increasingly crucial for addressing privacy concerns and knowledge gaps post-deployment. Despite this importance, existing approaches are often heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Youssef Allouah , Joshua Kazdan , Rachid Guerraoui , Sanmi Koyejo

Machine unlearning, an emerging research topic focusing on compliance with data privacy regulations, enables trained models to remove the information learned from specific data. While many existing methods indirectly address this issue by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Seonguk Seo , Dongwan Kim , Bohyung Han

Machine unlearning poses challenges in removing mislabeled, contaminated, or problematic data from a pretrained model. Current unlearning approaches and evaluation metrics are solely focused on model predictions, which limits insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

To address the shortcomings of real-world datasets, robust learning algorithms have been designed to overcome arbitrary and indiscriminate data corruption. However, practical processes of gathering data may lead to patterns of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lunjia Hu , Charlotte Peale , Judy Hanwen Shen

We introduce leave-one-out unfairness, which characterizes how likely a model's prediction for an individual will change due to the inclusion or removal of a single other person in the model's training data. Leave-one-out unfairness appeals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Emily Black , Matt Fredrikson

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving machine learning has spurred interest in federated unlearning, which enables the selective removal of data from models trained in federated systems. However, developing federated unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yang Zhao , Jiaxi Yang , Yiling Tao , Lixu Wang , Xiaoxiao Li , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor

The prediction accuracy has been the long-lasting and sole standard for comparing the performance of different image classification models, including the ImageNet competition. However, recent studies have highlighted the lack of robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Dong Su , Huan Zhang , Hongge Chen , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Yupeng Gao

This position paper argues that achieving robustness, privacy, and efficiency simultaneously in machine learning systems is infeasible under prevailing threat models. The tension between these goals arises not from algorithmic shortcomings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , John Stephan

Machine learning models are increasingly deployed for critical decision-making tasks, making it important to verify that they do not contain gender or racial biases picked up from training data. Typical approaches to achieve fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc , Xingzhi Guo , Stanley Bak , Steven Skiena

This work tackles an intriguing and fundamental open challenge in representation learning: Given a well-trained deep learning model, can it be reprogrammed to enhance its robustness against adversarial or noisy input perturbations without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhichao Hou , MohamadAli Torkamani , Hamid Krim , Xiaorui Liu