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Improving fairness between privileged and less-privileged sensitive attribute groups (e.g, {race, gender}) has attracted lots of attention. To enhance the model performs uniformly well in different sensitive attributes, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qi Qi , Shervin Ardeshir , Yi Xu , Tianbao Yang

Achieving constant accuracy in object detection is challenging due to the inherent variability of object sizes. One effective approach to this problem involves optimizing input resolution, referred to as a multi-resolution strategy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Daeun Seo , Hoeseok Yang , Hyungshin Kim

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in critical decision-making software, but incidents have raised questions about the fairness of ML predictions. To address this issue, new tools and methods are needed to mitigate bias in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Giang Nguyen , Sumon Biswas , Hridesh Rajan

Although deep learning has demonstrated astonishing performance in many applications, there are still concerns about its dependability. One desirable property of deep learning applications with societal impact is fairness (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peixin Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Xinyu Wang , Guoliang Dong , Xingen Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong

Recent advancements in deep learning have shown transformative potential in medical imaging, yet concerns about fairness persist due to performance disparities across demographic subgroups. Existing methods aim to address these biases by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yicheng Gao , Jinkui Hao , Bo Zhou

Item Response Theory (IRT) has been widely used in educational psychometrics to assess student ability, as well as the difficulty and discrimination of test questions. In this context, discrimination specifically refers to how effectively a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ziqi Xu , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi , Cheng Soon Ong , Eirini Ntoutsi

Deep Learning has advanced significantly in medical applications, aiding disease diagnosis in Chest X-ray images. However, expanding model capabilities with new data remains a challenge, which Continual Learning (CL) aims to address.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Marina Ceccon , Davide Dalle Pezze , Alessandro Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto

We introduce FAIR-SIGHT, an innovative post-hoc framework designed to ensure fairness in computer vision systems by combining conformal prediction with a dynamic output repair mechanism. Our approach calculates a fairness-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Arya Fayyazi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

Language models are prone to dataset biases, known as shortcuts and spurious correlations in data, which often result in performance drop on new data. We present a new debiasing framework called ``FairFlow'' that mitigates dataset biases by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

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

Existing bias mitigation methods for DNN models primarily work on learning debiased encoders. This process not only requires a lot of instance-level annotations for sensitive attributes, it also does not guarantee that all fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mengnan Du , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Guanchu Wang , Ruixiang Tang , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah , Xia Hu

The pursuit of fairness in machine learning (ML), ensuring that the models do not exhibit biases toward protected demographic groups, typically results in a compromise scenario. This compromise can be explained by a Pareto frontier where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jinlong Pang , Jialu Wang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yuanshun Yao , Chen Qian , Yang Liu

Although effective deepfake detection models have been developed in recent years, recent studies have revealed that these models can result in unfair performance disparities among demographic groups, such as race and gender. This can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-03 Li Lin , Xinan He , Yan Ju , Xin Wang , Feng Ding , Shu Hu

Clinical trials are indispensable in developing new treatments, but they face obstacles in patient recruitment and retention, hindering the enrollment of necessary participants. To tackle these challenges, deep learning frameworks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Chia-Yuan Chang , Jiayi Yuan , Sirui Ding , Qiaoyu Tan , Kai Zhang , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xia Hu , Na Zou

This work examines how to train fair classifiers in settings where training labels are corrupted with random noise, and where the error rates of corruption depend both on the label class and on the membership function for a protected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Jialu Wang , Yang Liu , Caleb Levy

Deep learning models often learn to make predictions that rely on sensitive social attributes like gender and race, which poses significant fairness risks, especially in societal applications, e.g., hiring, banking, and criminal justice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang , Junyang Wang

In recent years, a growing body of work has emerged on how to learn machine learning models under fairness constraints, often expressed with respect to some sensitive attributes. In this work, we consider the setting in which an adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Julien Ferry , Ulrich Aïvodji , Sébastien Gambs , Marie-José Huguet , Mohamed Siala

Fairness-aware classification is receiving increasing attention in the machine learning fields. Recently research proposes to formulate the fairness-aware classification as constrained optimization problems. However, several limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Yongkai Wu , Lu Zhang , Xintao Wu

Despite a surge of recent advances in promoting machine Learning (ML) fairness, the existing mainstream approaches mostly require retraining or finetuning the entire weights of the neural network to meet the fairness criteria. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Guanhua Zhang , Yihua Zhang , Yang Zhang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang

Group bias in natural language processing tasks manifests as disparities in system error rates across texts authorized by different demographic groups, typically disadvantaging minority groups. Dataset balancing has been shown to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn