The study improves colorectal cancer survivability prediction by considering ethnicity.
problem Improving colorectal cancer survivability prediction using machine learning.
method Machine learning techniques applied to SEER cancer incidence database, comparing different ethnicities.
result Models perform better on single-ethnicity populations and provide different feature importance rankings.
Models predict race and ethnicity from names, improving accuracy over census data.
problem Inferring race and ethnicity from names, especially when first names are available.
method Modeling the relationship between characters in a name and race/ethnicity using Long Short-Term Memory.
result Long Short-Term Memory model achieves out-of-sample accuracy of 0.85.
DeepEthnic classifies faces into ethnic groups with high accuracy.
problem Classifying faces into ethnic groups using machine learning.
method Transfer learning from a large-scale data recognition network.
result State-of-the-art success rates for four ethnic groups.
Convolutional embedded networks improve clustering and ethnicity prediction from genetic variants.
problem Identifying population groups and predicting geographic ethnicity from genetic variants.
method Proposed convolutional embedded clustering and autoencoder classifier for genetic variant data.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and scalability.
Novel approach for robust domain generalization in health studies.
problem Challenges in making statistical inferences about underrepresented minority groups.
method Structured tensor completion for multi-dimensional domain generalization in linear regression models.
result Established rigorous theoretical guarantees and demonstrated minimax optimality.
The study examines how social biases are reinforced in machine learning models used for credit scoring.
problem Reinforcement of societal biases in machine learning algorithms for credit scoring.
method Analysis of machine learning models predicting gender or ethnicity based on loan applications data.
result Machine learning models can reflect and reinforce social biases present in the data.
Paper predicts demographics at finer geographic resolutions using geotagged tweets.
problem Limited traditional survey methods for demographics estimates at finer geographic resolutions.
method Adapting prior work to predict gender and race/ethnicity counts at the blockgroup-level.
result Achieves high correlations (0.671 for gender, 0.692 for race) compared to prior work.
The study uses transfer learning to compare surgical outcomes across racial/ethnic subgroups.
problem Difficulty in comparing surgical outcomes due to racial/ethnic and geographic differences.
method Causal inference framework and transfer learning to incorporate data from multiple populations.
result Racial and ethnic differences in surgical outcomes are found, with non-Hispanic Black patients experiencing wide variability.
Paper proposes robust method to detect risk heterogeneity across ethnic groups.
problem Detecting risk heterogeneity across ethnic groups in ICU studies.
method Proposes a robust framework using Neyman orthogonality for inference.
result Demonstrates improved inferential stability and reduced bias compared to standard methods.
Black women and white men have the highest income disparity in the U.S.
problem Income inequality between black women and white men in the USA
method Dynamic microeconomic model, analyzing black and white population income since 1930
result Black females and white males are poles of overall income inequality
This research quantifies cross-sectoral inequalities using latent class analysis.
problem Addressing multiple and intersecting forms of inequality in various sectors.
method Innovative latent class analysis approach to quantify discrepancies.
result Significant discrepancies found among minority ethnic groups and between them and non-minority groups.
Paper finds gender classification accuracy varies by skin type, not ethnicity.
problem Unequal performance of face classification services across skin types and genders.
method Stability experiments, image manipulation, and post-hoc explanation techniques.
result Lip, eye, and cheek structure differences, not skin type, cause gender classification discrepancies.
Improved race prediction model outperforms existing methods.
problem Improving race prediction using voter registration data.
method Trained BiLSTM model on voter registration data and created an ensemble.
result Achieved up to 36.8% higher OOS F1 scores than previous models.
Linear Mixed Models (LMMs) are important tools in statistical genetics. When used for feature selection, they allow to find a sparse set of genetic traits that best predict a continuous phenotype of interest, while simultaneously correcting for various confounding factors such as age, ethnicity and population structure…
Study predicts infant mortality using birth certificate data.
problem High infant mortality rate in the U.S. and racial/ethnic disparities.
method Classification models trained on birth certificate features.
result Methodology outperforms standard classification methods.
Model predicts personality traits from Facebook Likes.
problem Predicting personality traits from social media data.
method Mapped Facebook Likes to page categories, used machine learning.
result 83% accuracy distinguishing religious vs non-religious.
Paper protects privacy and fairness in deep learning models.
problem Ensuring fairness in deep learning models while protecting sensitive data.
method Uses differential privacy and Lagrangian duality to design fair predictors.
result Demonstrates improved model performance on prediction tasks.
Proposes a fair classification model using robust optimization.
problem Preventing discrimination in classification models.
method Distributionally robust logistic regression with Wasserstein ball and convex unfairness measure.
result Improves fairness with minimal loss in predictive accuracy.
A reliable human skin detection method that is adaptable to different human skin colours and illu- mination conditions is essential for better human skin segmentation. Even though different human skin colour detection solutions have been successfully applied, they are prone to false skin detection and are not able to c…
New model predicts multiple outputs with missing labels.
problem Missing group labels in multi-output regression.
method Weakly-supervised multi-output model using correlated Gaussian processes.
result Model excels in multi-output settings with missing labels.
New benchmark predicts cardiometabolic risk from accelerometer data, with varying accuracy.
problem Lack of accurate tabular benchmarks for cardiometabolic risk from accelerometer data.
method Tabular learning methods (ridge regression, XGBoost, TabPFN v2) applied to NHANES data.
result TabPFN v2 achieves best performance, but triglycerides remain largely unpredictable.
Extends multivariate regression for tensor-variate data, identifying brain regions and facial characteristics.
problem Challenges in fitting regression models with multivariate responses and covariates.
method Low-rank tensor formats on regression coefficients and tensor-variate normal distribution for errors.
result Maximum likelihood estimators for tensor-on-tensor regression via block-relaxation algorithms.
TaCo prevents non-linear classifiers from detecting sensitive attributes.
problem Ensuring fairness in NLP models by preventing sensitive attribute detection.
method Targeted Concept Erasure (TaCo) removes sensitive information from final latent representations, even against non-linear classifiers.
result TaCo outperforms state-of-the-art methods in reducing sensitive attribute prediction accuracy while preserving overall task performance.
Author name disambiguation in bibliographic databases is the problem of grouping together scientific publications written by the same person, accounting for potential homonyms and/or synonyms. Among solutions to this problem, digital libraries are increasingly offering tools for authors to manually curate their publica…
Study highlights fairness issues in travel behavior prediction models.
problem Ethical challenges in travel behavior analysis using machine learning.
method Operationalized computational fairness by equality of opportunity; compared DNN and DCM; introduced absolute correlation regularization.
result Both DNN and DCM predict disparities across social groups, with DNN outperforming DCM in prediction disparities.
PWSHAP provides targeted explanations for complex models.
problem Inability of black-box models to explain targeted effects in sensitive domains.
method Augments model with DAG, uses Shapley values for causal pathway identification.
result Establishes error bounds and demonstrates resolution, interpretability, and locality.
The perennial problem of "how many clusters?" remains an issue of substantial interest in data mining and machine learning communities, and becomes particularly salient in large data sets such as populational genomic data where the number of clusters needs to be relatively large and open-ended. This problem gets furthe…
Propensity score matching improves fairness in machine learning models.
problem Bias in training data affects fairness metrics in machine learning models.
method Propensity score matching to evaluate and mitigate bias in test data.
result FairMatch significantly reduces bias in test data without sacrificing predictive performance.
Study examines biases in clinical word embeddings, revealing performance gaps across groups.
problem Biases in clinical word embeddings leading to performance differences across groups.
method Pretrained BERT models on MIMIC-III, fill-in-the-blank method, fairness evaluation on clinical tasks.
result Classifiers trained from BERT representations exhibit statistically significant differences in performance across groups.
Improved surname geocoding and name supplements enhance race imputation accuracy.
problem Census data problems affecting race imputation accuracy.
method Fully Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (fBISG) and name supplements.
result Significant improvement in race imputation accuracy across all racial groups.
Develops fair machine learning models resistant to sensitive perturbations.
problem Ensuring model performance is invariant to sensitive attributes like gender and ethnicity.
method Distributionally robust optimization to enforce individual fairness.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on tasks prone to bias.
New method improves fairness of facial recognition systems.
problem Facial recognition systems exhibit bias across different demographic groups.
method Optimizes centroid-based scores to reduce bias in pre-trained models.
result Demonstrates significant improvement in fairness with minimal loss in accuracy.
One LN layer stabilizes neural network extrapolation.
problem Understanding neural networks' extrapolation behavior.
method Applied NTK theory to infinitely-wide networks.
result Adding one LN layer stabilizes network outputs.
The paper proposes a method to improve fairness in classification without using sensitive features directly.
problem Balancing accuracy and fairness in automated decision-making systems.
method Combining Multitask Learning with fairness constraints to train group-specific classifiers.
result The method achieves substantial improvements in both accuracy and fairness on real datasets.
Proposes a new method for fairness in machine learning with multiple protected attributes.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models with continuous and multiple protected attributes.
method Distance covariance regularisation framework to mitigate association between model predictions and protected attributes.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in mitigating fairness gerrymandering in regression tasks.
Improved image learning using elliptically contoured tensor-variate distributions.
problem Inadequate statistical analysis for tensor-valued data, especially with heavier or lighter tails.
method Developed a family of elliptically contoured tensor-variate distributions and derived their properties and procedures for estimation.
result Tensor-variate classification rules and tensor-on-tensor regression better predict and characterize data than TVN-based methods.
New dataset for evaluating speech recognition fairness across demographics.
problem Lack of fairness metrics in speech recognition datasets.
method Developed Fair-Speech dataset with diverse demographic information.
result Helps evaluate ASR models for fairness across demographics.
Introduces MPR to measure and optimize representation across intersectional groups in retrieval.
problem Harmful stereotypes, cultural erasure, and social disparities in image search and retrieval.
method Develops MPR metric, practical estimation methods, theoretical guarantees, and optimization algorithms.
result Optimizing MPR yields more proportional representation across multiple intersectional groups, often with minimal retrieval accuracy compromise.
Fairness-aware learning is a novel framework for classification tasks. Like regular empirical risk minimization (ERM), it aims to learn a classifier with a low error rate, and at the same time, for the predictions of the classifier to be independent of sensitive features, such as gender, religion, race, and ethnicity. …
Deep learning model for demographic classification using label proportions.
problem Lack of annotated training data for deep learning.
method LLP setting with Batch Averager regularization and co-training algorithm.
result Deep LLP model outperforms baselines for demographic classification.
Model detects cyberbullying by analyzing participant-vocabulary consistency.
problem Identifying cyberbullying on social media platforms.
method Formulated an objective function based on participant-vocabulary consistency to detect cyberbullying.
result The model can detect new bullying vocabulary, victims, and bullies.
BAICS identifies best arm with fairness constraints on subpopulations.
problem Identify the best arm while ensuring fairness across subpopulations.
method Formulated and solved BAICS problem, analyzed complexity, designed algorithm.
result Algorithm's sample complexity matches theoretical lower bound.
Proposes a method to increase diversity without sacrificing meritocracy.
problem Systemic bias in datasets affecting diversity and meritocracy.
method Optimally flipping outcome labels and training classification models simultaneously.
result The price of diversity is low and sometimes negative, enhancing diversity without significantly affecting meritocracy.
This survey outlines methods to ensure fairness in machine learning.
problem Mitigating bias and promoting fairness in machine learning applications.
method Organizes approaches into pre-processing, in-processing, and post-processing methods.
result Summarizes open challenges and dilemmas for fairness research.
New fair regression method improves fairness in chronic kidney disease classification.
problem Mitigating societal bias in health care for multiple groups.
method Penalized fair regression framework for multiple groups, with penalties for true positive rate disparity.
result Achieves fairness-accuracy frontier beyond existing methods in simulations and real-world data.
The paper addresses fairness in machine learning by adjusting input distributions.
problem Reducing disparate impact in machine learning models over different groups.
method The approach involves learning a counterfactual distribution to adjust input variables for disadvantaged groups.
result The method can reduce disparate impact without training a new model.
5D AI model detects bad loans without biased features, improving consumer protection.
problem Detecting bad loans without biased features and improving consumer protection.
method Machine learning, BiMOPT features, European Banking Authority principles, AI principles, historical and validation datasets.
result 5D correctly detected 1,461 bad loans out of 1,613 (Sensitivity = 0.91, Prevalence = 0.0253, Positive Predictive Value = 0.19).
A framework detects nonlinear and interaction effects in epidemiological data with uncertainty quantification.
problem Lack of reliable inference for ML-discovered nonlinearities and interactions in epidemiological data.
method Combines Bayesian sparse regression, tree ensembles, and Shapley values.
result Valid uncertainty quantification for feature effects at the individual level.