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Deep learning models, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated exceptional performance in diagnosing skin diseases, often outperforming dermatologists. However, they have also unveiled biases linked to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Anshul Pundhir , Balasubramanian Raman , Pravendra Singh

Optimizing prediction accuracy can come at the expense of fairness. Towards minimizing discrimination against a group, fair machine learning algorithms strive to equalize the behavior of a model across different groups, by imposing a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Hongyan Chang , Ta Duy Nguyen , Sasi Kumar Murakonda , Ehsan Kazemi , Reza Shokri

With the widespread use of AI systems and applications in our everyday lives, it is important to take fairness issues into consideration while designing and engineering these types of systems. Such systems can be used in many sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ninareh Mehrabi , Fred Morstatter , Nripsuta Saxena , Kristina Lerman , Aram Galstyan

In recent years, the affective computing (AC) and human-robot interaction (HRI) research communities have put fairness at the centre of their research agenda. However, none of the existing work has addressed the problem of machine learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jiaee Cheong , Micol Spitale , Hatice Gunes

Traditional approaches to learning fair machine learning models often require rebuilding models from scratch, typically without considering potentially existing models. In a context where models need to be retrained frequently, this can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Federico Di Gennaro , Thibault Laugel , Vincent Grari , Marcin Detyniecki

The potential risk of AI systems unintentionally embedding and reproducing bias has attracted the attention of machine learning practitioners and society at large. As policy makers are willing to set the standards of algorithms and AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Boris Ruf , Chaouki Boutharouite , Marcin Detyniecki

Class imbalance is a common challenge in many NLP tasks, and has clear connections to bias, in that bias in training data often leads to higher accuracy for majority groups at the expense of minority groups. However there has traditionally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shivashankar Subramanian , Afshin Rahimi , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn , Lea Frermann

Many works have shown that deep learning-based medical image classification models can exhibit bias toward certain demographic attributes like race, gender, and age. Existing bias mitigation methods primarily focus on learning debiased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Yawen Wu , Dewen Zeng , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

When it is ethical and legal to use a sensitive attribute (such as gender or race) in machine learning systems, the question remains how to do so. We show that the naive application of machine learning algorithms using sensitive features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Cynthia Dwork , Nicole Immorlica , Adam Tauman Kalai , Max Leiserson

An increased awareness concerning risks of algorithmic bias has driven a surge of efforts around bias mitigation strategies. A vast majority of the proposed approaches fall under one of two categories: (1) imposing algorithmic fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Yunyi Li , Maria De-Arteaga , Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

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

Group fairness in machine learning is an important area of research focused on achieving equitable outcomes across different groups defined by sensitive attributes such as race or gender. Federated Learning, a decentralized approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Teresa Salazar , Helder Araújo , Alberto Cano , Pedro Henriques Abreu

Machine learning models often inherit biases from historical data, raising critical concerns about fairness and accountability. Conventional fairness interventions typically require access to sensitive attributes like gender or race, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Yixiao Lin , James Booth

Deep learning has produced big advances in artificial intelligence, but trained neural networks often reflect and amplify bias in their training data, and thus produce unfair predictions. We propose a novel measure of individual fairness,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Krystal Maughan , Joseph P. Near

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

Machine learning algorithms often struggle to eliminate inherent data biases, particularly those arising from unreliable labels, which poses a significant challenge in ensuring fairness. Existing fairness techniques that address label bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yixuan Zhang , Zhidong Li , Yang Wang , Fang Chen , Xuhui Fan , Feng Zhou

The purpose of this research report is to present the our learning curve and the exposure to the Machine Learning life cycle, with the use of a Kaggle binary classification data set and taking to explore various techniques from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohamed Hamama

Missing data are ubiquitous in the era of big data and, if inadequately handled, are known to lead to biased findings and have deleterious impact on data-driven decision makings. To mitigate its impact, many missing value imputation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yiliang Zhang , Qi Long

Deep learning is increasingly being used in high-stake decision making applications that affect individual lives. However, deep learning models might exhibit algorithmic discrimination behaviors with respect to protected groups, potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengnan Du , Fan Yang , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Machine learning systems are increasingly being used in critical decision making such as healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. Concerns around their fairness have resulted in several bias mitigation techniques that emphasize the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jahid Hasan , Romila Pradhan