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Recent research has identified discriminatory behavior of automated prediction algorithms towards groups identified on specific protected attributes (e.g., gender, ethnicity, age group, etc.). When deployed in real-world scenarios, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Anubha Pandey , Aditi Rai , Maneet Singh , Deepak Bhatt , Tanmoy Bhowmik

We study the problem of online dynamic pricing with two types of fairness constraints: a "procedural fairness" which requires the proposed prices to be equal in expectation among different groups, and a "substantive fairness" which requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jianyu Xu , Dan Qiao , Yu-Xiang Wang

Fairness holds a pivotal role in the realm of machine learning, particularly when it comes to addressing groups categorised by protected attributes, e.g., gender, race. Prevailing algorithms in fair learning predominantly hinge on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Quan Zhou , Jakub Marecek

Large-scale ASR models have achieved remarkable gains in accuracy and robustness. However, fairness issues remain largely unaddressed despite their critical importance in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce FairASR, a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Jongsuk Kim , Jaemyung Yu , Minchan Kwon , Junmo Kim

We study supervised learning problems that have significant effects on individuals from two demographic groups, and we seek predictors that are fair with respect to a group fairness criterion such as statistical parity (SP). A predictor is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yves Rychener , Bahar Taskesen , Daniel Kuhn

$\textit{Equalized odds}$, an important notion of algorithmic fairness, aims to ensure that sensitive variables, such as race and gender, do not unfairly influence the algorithm's prediction when conditioning on the true outcome. Despite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Yuheng Lai , Leying Guan

Testing fairness is a major concern in psychometric and educational research. A typical approach for ensuring testing fairness is through differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. DIF arises when a test item functions differently across…

Applications · Statistics 2025-04-02 Ling Chen , Susu Zhang , Jingchen Liu

Demographic parity (DP) is a widely studied fairness criterion in regression, enforcing independence between the predictions and sensitive attributes. However, constraining the entire distribution can degrade predictive accuracy and may be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Naht Sinh Le , Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri

Ensembling is commonly regarded as an effective way to improve the general performance of models in machine learning, while also increasing the robustness of predictions. When it comes to algorithmic fairness, heterogeneous ensembles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Estanislao Claucich , Sara Hooker , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante , Rodrigo Echeveste

Despite their promise, fair machine learning methods often yield Pareto-inefficient models, in which the performance of certain groups can be improved without degrading that of others. This issue arises frequently in traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Sofiane Tanji , Samuel Vaiter , Yassine Laguel

To mitigate the effects of undesired biases in models, several approaches propose to pre-process the input dataset to reduce the risks of discrimination by preventing the inference of sensitive attributes. Unfortunately, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sébastien Gambs , Rosin Claude Ngueveu

In this work, we consider the problem of intersectional group fairness in the classification setting, where the objective is to learn discrimination-free models in the presence of several intersecting sensitive groups. First, we illustrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gaurav Maheshwari , Aurélien Bellet , Pascal Denis , Mikaela Keller

Group fairness requires that different protected groups, characterized by a given sensitive attribute, receive equal outcomes overall. Typically, the level of group fairness is measured by the statistical gap between predictions from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Kunwoong Kim , Insung Kong , Jongjin Lee , Minwoo Chae , Sangchul Park , Yongdai Kim

Effective machine learning models can automatically learn useful information from a large quantity of data and provide decisions in a high accuracy. These models may, however, lead to unfair predictions in certain sense among the population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Mingliang Chen , Min Wu

In the field of algorithmic fairness, significant attention has been put on group fairness criteria, such as Demographic Parity and Equalized Odds. Nevertheless, these objectives, measured as global averages, have raised concerns about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Vincent Grari , Thibault Laugel , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Sylvain Lamprier , Marcin Detyniecki

Despite remarkable success in diverse web-based applications, Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) inherit and further exacerbate historical discrimination and social stereotypes, which critically hinder their deployments in high-stake domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy

Ensuring fairness in machine learning extends to the critical dimension of privacy, particularly in human-centric federated learning (FL) settings where decentralized data necessitates an equitable distribution of privacy risk across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Tianyu Zhao , Mahmoud Srewa , Salma Elmalaki

Fairness is a widely discussed topic in recommender systems, but its practical implementation faces challenges in defining sensitive features while maintaining recommendation accuracy. We propose feature fairness as the foundation to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Hengchang Hu , Yiming Cao , Zhankui He , Samson Tan , Min-Yen Kan

While subgroup disparities and performance bias are increasingly studied in computational research, fairness in categorical Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) remains underexplored. Existing methods often rely on explicit demographic labels,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Yi-Cheng Lin , Huang-Cheng Chou , Hung-yi Lee

As machine learning (ML) becomes more prevalent in human-centric applications, there is a growing emphasis on algorithmic fairness and privacy protection. While previous research has explored these areas as separate objectives, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Songjie Xie , Youlong Wu , Jiaxuan Li , Ming Ding , Khaled B. Letaief