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The escalating integration of machine learning in high-stakes fields such as healthcare raises substantial concerns about model fairness. We propose an interpretable framework - Fairness-Aware Interpretable Modeling (FAIM), to improve model…

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The emergence and growth of research on issues of ethics in AI, and in particular algorithmic fairness, has roots in an essential observation that structural inequalities in society are reflected in the data used to train predictive models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Caitlin Kuhlman , Latifa Jackson , Rumi Chunara

Ensuring fairness in Graph Neural Networks is fundamental to promoting trustworthy and socially responsible machine learning systems. In response, numerous fair graph learning methods have been proposed in recent years. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zichong Wang , Zhipeng Yin , Liping Yang , Jun Zhuang , Rui Yu , Qingzhao Kong , Wenbin Zhang

As learning-to-rank models are increasingly deployed for decision-making in areas with profound life implications, the FairML community has been developing fair learning-to-rank (LTR) models. These models rely on the availability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Oluseun Olulana , Kathleen Cachel , Fabricio Murai , Elke Rundensteiner

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

Numerous fairness metrics have been proposed and employed by artificial intelligence (AI) experts to quantitatively measure bias and define fairness in AI models. Recognizing the need to accommodate stakeholders' diverse fairness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Lin Luo , Yuri Nakao , Mathieu Chollet , Hiroya Inakoshi , Simone Stumpf

Text-to-image(T2I) models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E have made generative AI widely accessible, yet recent studies reveal that these systems often replicate societal biases, particularly in how they depict demographic groups across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Marzia Binta Nizam , James Davis

Face gender classification models often reflect and amplify demographic biases present in their training data, leading to uneven performance across gender and racial subgroups. We introduce pseudo-balancing, a simple and effective strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haohua Dong , Ana Manzano Rodríguez , Camille Guinaudeau , Shin'ichi Satoh

Group fairness is a popular approach to prevent unfavorable treatment of individuals based on sensitive attributes such as race, gender, and disability. However, the reliance of group fairness on access to discrete group information raises…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-22 David Liu , Virginie Do , Nicolas Usunier , Maximilian Nickel

Developing AI tools that preserve fairness is of critical importance, specifically in high-stakes applications such as those in healthcare. However, health AI models' overall prediction performance is often prioritized over the possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Raphael Poulain , Mirza Farhan Bin Tarek , Rahmatollah Beheshti

The subject of "fairness" in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to assessing AI algorithms for potential bias based on demographic characteristics such as race and gender, and the development of algorithms to address this bias. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Esther Puyol-Anton , Bram Ruijsink , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Steffen E. Petersen , Reza Razavi , Andrew P. King

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about our ability to ensure their fairness, that is, how to avoid discrimination based on protected characteristics such as gender, race, or…

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With the universal adoption of machine learning in healthcare, the potential for the automation of societal biases to further exacerbate health disparities poses a significant risk. We explore algorithmic fairness from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Md Rahat Shahriar Zawad , Peter Washington

Ensuring fairness has emerged as one of the primary concerns in AI and its related algorithms. Over time, the field of machine learning fairness has evolved to address these issues. This paper provides an extensive overview of this field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Quan Zhou

Machine learning systems are notoriously prone to biased predictions about certain demographic groups, leading to algorithmic fairness issues. Due to privacy concerns and data quality problems, some demographic information may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yingtao Luo , Zhixun Li , Qiang Liu , Jun Zhu

Developing learning methods which do not discriminate subgroups in the population is a central goal of algorithmic fairness. One way to reach this goal is by modifying the data representation in order to meet certain fairness constraints.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-03 Luca Oneto , Michele Donini , Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil

Recent studies on fairness have shown that Facial Expression Recognition (FER) models exhibit biases toward certain visually perceived demographic groups. However, the limited availability of human-annotated demographic labels in public FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tangzheng Lian , Oya Celiktutan

In many healthcare settings, it is both critical to consider fairness when building analytical applications but also uniquely unacceptable to lower model performance for one group to match that of another (e.g. fairness cannot be achieved…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-23 Daniel Smolyak , Courtney Paulson , Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir

As automated classification systems become increasingly prevalent, concerns have emerged over their potential to reinforce and amplify existing societal biases. In the light of this issue, many methods have been proposed to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ainhize Barrainkua , Santiago Mazuelas , Novi Quadrianto , Jose A. Lozano

Demographic bias is one of the major challenges for face recognition systems. The majority of existing studies on demographic biases are heavily dependent on specific demographic groups or demographic classifier, making it difficult to…

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