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This paper presents an integrated framework for estimation and inference from generalized linear models using adjusted score equations that result in mean and median bias reduction. The framework unifies theoretical and methodological…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-15 Ioannis Kosmidis , Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui , Nicola Sartori

Recently contrastive learning has shown significant progress in learning visual representations from unlabeled data. The core idea is training the backbone to be invariant to different augmentations of an instance. While most methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Xiaoyang Guo , Tianhao Zhao , Yutian Lin , Bo Du

Numerous methods have been implemented that pursue fairness with respect to sensitive features by mitigating biases in machine learning. Yet, the problem settings that each method tackles vary significantly, including the stage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

Machine learning is a tool for building models that accurately represent input training data. When undesired biases concerning demographic groups are in the training data, well-trained models will reflect those biases. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Brian Hu Zhang , Blake Lemoine , Margaret Mitchell

Feature attribution methods, proposed recently, help users interpret the predictions of complex models. Our approach integrates feature attributions into the objective function to allow machine learning practitioners to incorporate priors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Frederick Liu , Besim Avci

Fairness constitutes a concern within machine learning (ML) applications. Currently, there is no study on how disparities in classification complexity between privileged and unprivileged groups could influence the fairness of solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Juliett Suárez Ferreira , Marija Slavkovik , Jorge Casillas

The rapid advancement of large language models has intensified public concerns about the potential misuse. Therefore, it is important to build trustworthy AI-generated text detection systems. Existing methods neglect stylistic modeling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junxi Wu , Jinpeng Wang , Zheng Liu , Bin Chen , Dongjian Hu , Hao Wu , Shu-Tao Xia

There are several bias mitigators that can reduce algorithmic bias in machine learning models but, unfortunately, the effect of mitigators on fairness is often not stable when measured across different data splits. A popular approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Feffer , Martin Hirzel , Samuel C. Hoffman , Kiran Kate , Parikshit Ram , Avraham Shinnar

Data sets for fairness relevant tasks can lack examples or be biased according to a specific label in a sensitive attribute. We demonstrate the usefulness of weight based meta-learning approaches in such situations. For models that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Dylan Slack , Sorelle Friedler , Emile Givental

Iterative feature space optimization involves systematically evaluating and adjusting the feature space to improve downstream task performance. However, existing works suffer from three key limitations:1) overlooking differences among data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanping Wu , Yanyong Huang , Zhengzhang Chen , Zijun Yao , Yanjie Fu , Kunpeng Liu , Xiao Luo , Dongjie Wang

Meta-learning is increasingly used to support the recommendation of machine learning algorithms and their configurations. Such recommendations are made based on meta-data, consisting of performance evaluations of algorithms on prior…

We tackle the problem of bias mitigation of algorithmic decisions in a setting where both the output of the algorithm and the sensitive variable are continuous. Most of prior work deals with discrete sensitive variables, meaning that the…

Traditional comparative learning sentence embedding directly uses the encoder to extract sentence features, and then passes in the comparative loss function for learning. However, this method pays too much attention to the sentence body and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wei Zhang , Xu Chen

Recent studies reveal that various biases exist in different NLP tasks, and over-reliance on biases results in models' poor generalization ability and low adversarial robustness. To mitigate datasets biases, previous works propose lots of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yanchen Liu , Jing Yan , Yan Chen , Jing Liu , Hua Wu

In this paper, prediction for linear systems with missing information is investigated. New methods are introduced to improve the Mean Squared Error (MSE) on the test set in comparison to state-of-the-art methods, through appropriate tuning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-04 Mohammad Amin Fakharian , Ashkan Esmaeili , Farokh Marvasti

Although large-scale visual foundation models (VFMs) achieve remarkable performance in semantic understanding, they still underperform in instance-aware dense prediction tasks. They exhibit different biases in representation: for instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yachan Guo , JoseLuis Gomez Zurita , Danna Xue , Yi Xiao , AntonioManuel Lopez Pena

Few-shot image classification remains a critical challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in data-scarce environments. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained visual-language models, such as CLIP. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xi Yang , Pai Peng , Wulin Xie , Xiaohuan Lu , Jie Wen

The issue of group fairness in machine learning models, where certain sub-populations or groups are favored over others, has been recognized for some time. While many mitigation strategies have been proposed in centralized learning, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ganghua Wang , Ali Payani , Myungjin Lee , Ramana Kompella

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

In this paper, we advocate for using large pre-trained monolingual language models in cross lingual zero-shot word sense disambiguation (WSD) coupled with a contextualized mapping mechanism. We also report rigorous experiments that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Gábor Berend