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Ensuring algorithmic fairness remains a significant challenge in machine learning, particularly as models are increasingly applied across diverse domains. While numerous fairness criteria exist, they often lack generalizability across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhecheng Sheng , Jiawei Zhang , Enmao Diao

Fair classification is a critical challenge that has gained increasing importance due to international regulations and its growing use in high-stakes decision-making settings. Existing methods often rely on adversarial learning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alberto Sinigaglia , Davide Sartor , Marina Ceccon , Gian Antonio Susto

Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms is a challenging and essential task. We consider the problem of clustering a set of points while satisfying fairness constraints. While there have been several attempts to capture group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Debajyoti Kar , Mert Kosan , Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Palash Dey , Swagato Sanyal

Algorithmic fairness plays an increasingly critical role in machine learning research. Several group fairness notions and algorithms have been proposed. However, the fairness guarantee of existing fair classification methods mainly depends…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Puheng Li , James Zou , Linjun Zhang

Ranking algorithms are deployed widely to order a set of items in applications such as search engines, news feeds, and recommendation systems. Recent studies, however, have shown that, left unchecked, the output of ranking algorithms can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 L. Elisa Celis , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Ranking functions that are used in decision systems often produce disparate results for different populations because of bias in the underlying data. Addressing, and compensating for, these disparate outcomes is a critical problem for fair…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Abraham Gale , Amélie Marian

We study the problem of fairness in k-centers clustering on data with disjoint demographic groups. Specifically, this work proposes a variant of fairness which restricts each group's number of centers with both a lower bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Huy Lê Nguyen , Thy Nguyen , Matthew Jones

Deep clustering has the potential to learn a strong representation and hence better clustering performance compared to traditional clustering methods such as $k$-means and spectral clustering. However, this strong representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson

We study discrete k-clustering problems in general metric spaces that are constrained by a combination of two different fairness conditions within the demographic fairness model. Given a metric space (P,d), where every point in P is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nicole Funk , Annika Hennes , Johanna Hillebrand , Sarah Sturm

Clustering is a fundamental tool in data mining. It partitions points into groups (clusters) and may be used to make decisions for each point based on its group. However, this process may harm protected (minority) classes if the clustering…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioana O. Bercea , Martin Groß , Samir Khuller , Aounon Kumar , Clemens Rösner , Daniel R. Schmidt , Melanie Schmidt

Fair prediction across protected groups is an important constraint for many federated learning applications. However, prior work studying group fair federated learning lacks formal convergence or fairness guarantees. In this work we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shengyuan Hu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

Kearns et al. [2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, equalizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Michael Kearns , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We study a novel problem of fairness in ranking aimed at minimizing the amount of individual unfairness introduced when enforcing group-fairness constraints. Our proposal is rooted in the distributional maxmin fairness theory, which uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Bonchi

In this paper, we study the prediction of a real-valued target, such as a risk score or recidivism rate, while guaranteeing a quantitative notion of fairness with respect to a protected attribute such as gender or race. We call this class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Alekh Agarwal , Miroslav Dudík , Zhiwei Steven Wu

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

There has been much interest recently in developing fair clustering algorithms that seek to do justice to the representation of groups defined along sensitive attributes such as race and gender. We observe that clustering algorithms could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Stanley Simoes , Deepak P , Muiris MacCarthaigh

Most work in algorithmic fairness to date has focused on discrete outcomes, such as deciding whether to grant someone a loan or not. In these classification settings, group fairness criteria such as independence, separation and sufficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Daniel Steinberg , Alistair Reid , Simon O'Callaghan , Finnian Lattimore , Lachlan McCalman , Tiberio Caetano

Developing classification algorithms that are fair with respect to sensitive attributes of the data has become an important problem due to the growing deployment of classification algorithms in various social contexts. Several recent works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 L. Elisa Celis , Lingxiao Huang , Vijay Keswani , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Capacitated fair-range $k$-clustering generalizes classical $k$-clustering by incorporating both capacity constraints and demographic fairness. In this setting, each facility has a capacity limit and may belong to one or more demographic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Ameet Gadekar , Suhas Thejaswi

Fairness has emerged as a formidable challenge in data-driven decisions. Many of the data problems, such as creating compact data summaries for approximate query processing, can be effectively tackled using concepts from computational…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mohsen Dehghankar , Stavros Sintos , Abolfazl Asudeh