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Although many fairness criteria have been proposed to ensure that machine learning algorithms do not exhibit or amplify our existing social biases, these algorithms are trained on datasets that can themselves be statistically biased. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yiqiao Liao , Parinaz Naghizadeh

The increasing reliance on ML models in high-stakes tasks has raised a major concern on fairness violations. Although there has been a surge of work that improves algorithmic fairness, most of them are under the assumption of an identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Bang An , Zora Che , Mucong Ding , Furong Huang

The widespread integration of Machine Learning systems in daily life, particularly in high-stakes domains, has raised concerns about the fairness implications. While prior works have investigated static fairness measures, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Usman Gohar , Zeyu Tang , Jialu Wang , Kun Zhang , Peter L. Spirtes , Yang Liu , Lu Cheng

One of the difficulties of artificial intelligence is to ensure that model decisions are fair and free of bias. In research, datasets, metrics, techniques, and tools are applied to detect and mitigate algorithmic unfairness and bias. This…

The advent of powerful prediction algorithms led to increased automation of high-stake decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources such as government spending and welfare support. This automation bears the risk of perpetuating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-07 Matthias Kuppler , Christoph Kern , Ruben L. Bach , Frauke Kreuter

Algorithmic processes are increasingly employed to perform managerial decision making, especially after the tremendous success in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This paradigm shift is occurring because these sophisticated AI techniques are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Jianlong Zhou , Sunny Verma , Mudit Mittal , Fang Chen

In the current development and deployment of many artificial intelligence (AI) systems in healthcare, algorithm fairness is a challenging problem in delivering equitable care. Recent evaluation of AI models stratified across race…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Richard J. Chen , Tiffany Y. Chen , Jana Lipkova , Judy J. Wang , Drew F. K. Williamson , Ming Y. Lu , Sharifa Sahai , Faisal Mahmood

The fairness of machine learning-based decisions has become an increasingly important focus in the design of supervised machine learning methods. Most fairness approaches optimize a specified trade-off between performance measure(s) (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Omid Memarrast , Linh Vu , Brian Ziebart

Recent work in fairness in machine learning has proposed adjusting for fairness by equalizing accuracy metrics across groups and has also studied how datasets affected by historical prejudices may lead to unfair decision policies. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-11 Nathan Kallus , Angela Zhou

There has been an increasing interest in enhancing the fairness of machine learning (ML). Despite the growing number of fairness-improving methods, we lack a systematic understanding of the trade-offs among factors considered in the ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zhenlan Ji , Pingchuan Ma , Shuai Wang , Yanhui Li

Fair machine learning works have been focusing on the development of equitable algorithms that address discrimination of certain groups. Yet, many of these fairness-aware approaches aim to obtain a unique solution to the problem, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ana Valdivia , Javier Sánchez-Monedero , Jorge Casillas

Algorithmic fairness and privacy are essential pillars of trustworthy machine learning. Fair machine learning aims at minimizing discrimination against protected groups by, for example, imposing a constraint on models to equalize their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-08 Hongyan Chang , Reza Shokri

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a superior ability to serve as ranking models. However, concerns have arisen as LLMs will exhibit discriminatory ranking behaviors based on users' sensitive attributes (\eg gender).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Chen Xu , Wenjie Wang , Yuxin Li , Liang Pang , Jun Xu , Tat-Seng Chua

Algorithmic fairness in the context of personalized recommendation presents significantly different challenges to those commonly encountered in classification tasks. Researchers studying classification have generally considered fairness to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Amanda Aird , Paresha Farastu , Joshua Sun , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke

In many real-world settings, institutions can and do adjust the consequences attached to algorithmic classification decisions, such as the size of fines, sentence lengths, or benefit levels. We refer to these consequences as the stakes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Elizabeth Maggie Penn , John W. Patty

Fairness has emerged as an important consideration in algorithmic decision-making. Unfairness occurs when an agent with higher merit obtains a worse outcome than an agent with lower merit. Our central point is that a primary cause of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ashudeep Singh , David Kempe , Thorsten Joachims

In this paper, we present an empirical study on image recognition fairness, i.e., extreme class accuracy disparity on balanced data like ImageNet. We experimentally demonstrate that classes are not equal and the fairness issue is prevalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jiequan Cui , Beier Zhu , Xin Wen , Xiaojuan Qi , Bei Yu , Hanwang Zhang

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

The analysis of discrimination has long interested economists and lawyers. In recent years, the literature in computer science and machine learning has become interested in the subject, offering an interesting re-reading of the topic. These…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-12-21 Arthur Charpentier

Fairness concerns about algorithmic decision-making systems have been mainly focused on the outputs (e.g., the accuracy of a classifier across individuals or groups). However, one may additionally be concerned with fairness in the inputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Bashir Rastegarpanah , Mark Crovella , Krishna P. Gummadi