Two simple methods learn fair metrics from data to improve fairness in ML tasks.
problem Lack of widely accepted fair metrics for many ML tasks hinders individual fairness adoption.
method Presented two simple ways to learn fair metrics from various data types.
result Fair training with learned metrics improves fairness on three ML tasks.
DFL framework improves action and outcome fairness in policy learning.
problem Fairness in policy learning, especially action and outcome fairness.
method Integrates action and outcome fairness into a multi-objective optimization problem using a lexicographic weighted Tchebyshev method.
result DFL framework improves both action and outcome fairness with minimal value reduction.
Develops a fair relational model learning algorithm.
problem Fairness in machine learning models for relational data.
method Fair-A3SL, a fairness-aware structure learning algorithm for relational structures.
result Demonstrates effectiveness in learning fair, interpretable, and expressive structures.
Fair MP-Boost improves fairness and interpretability in boosting methods.
problem Improving fairness and interpretability in boosting methods.
method Fair MP-Boost uses adaptive sampling of minipatches to balance accuracy and fairness.
result Fair MP-Boost enhances fairness and accuracy while providing interpretable feature importance.
Develops a framework for fair semi-supervised learning.
problem Balancing fairness and accuracy in semi-supervised learning.
method Formulates a framework as an optimization problem, incorporating classifier loss, label propagation loss, and fairness constraints.
result Achieves fair semi-supervised learning with better accuracy-fairness trade-off than fair supervised learning.
Study examines fairness in machine learning for credit scoring.
problem Bias in machine learning models for credit scoring.
method Comprehensive experimental study of fairness-aware machine learning models.
result Fairness-aware models improve fairness while maintaining accuracy.
The paper explores fair clustering, a niche area in machine learning.
problem Fairness in clustering remains underexplored despite its importance.
method Assesses existing work and proposes new directions for fair clustering.
result Widening normative principles and knowledge of downstream processes can enhance fair clustering research.
New method certifies individual fairness in representations.
problem Ensuring fairness in data representations without sacrificing utility.
method Mapping similar individuals to close latent representations to certify individual fairness.
result Certifies individual fairness for existing and new data points.
This work transfers fairness notions from binary classification to learning to rank.
problem Fairness concerns in automated ranking systems.
method Formalism to incorporate fairness objectives in learning to rank with provable guarantees.
result Improves ranking fairness substantially with minimal loss in model quality.
SenSeI ensures fair models by enforcing invariance on sensitive groups.
problem Ensuring fair machine learning models that respect sensitive groups.
method Designing a transport-based regularizer to enforce invariance on sensitive sets.
result Certifiably fair ML models trained using SenSeI achieve improved fairness metrics.
Fair machine learning models can be vulnerable to adversarial attacks that reduce their accuracy and fairness.
problem Fairness constraints in machine learning models can compromise their robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Analysis of data poisoning attacks on group-based fair machine learning models, focusing on equalized odds.
result Adversaries can significantly reduce the test accuracy of fair machine learning models and widen their fairness gap.
Paper proposes a unified sparsity-based framework for evaluating algorithmic fairness.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning across diverse domains.
method Unified sparsity-based framework for evaluating fairness.
result Demonstrates broad applicability and effectiveness of the framework.
FSRL balances fairness and sufficiency in learning representations.
problem Ensuring unbiased predictions and decisions in machine learning.
method A convex combination of sufficiency and fairness objectives using distance covariance.
result FSRL achieves a superior trade-off between fairness and accuracy.
Abstract reviews mathematical fairness in machine learning.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models.
method Independence-based approach to fairness definitions and methodologies.
result Optimal fair classifiers and predictors under equality of odds are derived.
FairVIC improves fairness in neural networks without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Mitigating bias in automated decision-making systems, particularly in deep learning models.
method Integrates variance, invariance, and covariance terms into the loss function during training to abstract fairness concepts.
result Significant improvements in fairness across all tested metrics without compromising accuracy.
FairNN learns fair representations and decisions by optimizing a multi-objective loss function.
problem Fairness in machine learning models for decision-making.
method Joint feature representation and classification with multi-objective loss function.
result Joint approach outperforms separate treatment of fairness in representation learning or supervised learning.
Improves clustering fairness by learning fair clusters adaptively.
problem Fairness in deep clustering, especially for protected status variables.
method Formulates group-level fairness as ILP, integrates into discriminative deep clustering, refines learning algorithm.
result Consistently outperforms fair clustering algorithms on real-world datasets.
A new method for fair representation learning using PLS.
problem Fairness in representation learning for data reduction.
method Proposes Fair Partial Least Squares (PLS) components with fairness constraints.
result The new method outperforms standard fair PCA methods on various datasets.
New concept of within-group fairness improves AI fairness without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Fairness issues in AI models treating individuals in the same sensitive group unfairly.
method Introducing within-group fairness, proposing mathematical definitions, and developing learning algorithms.
result Improves within-group fairness without sacrificing accuracy and between-group fairness.
Algorithm ensures fair ranking by minority groups alongside majority groups.
problem Ensuring fair ranking of items from minority groups alongside majority groups.
method Optimal transport-based regularizer for individual fairness and efficient optimization algorithm.
result Certifiably individually fair LTR models are achieved.
The paper tackles fairness in forecasting and learning linear dynamical systems.
problem Under-representation bias in training data for multiple subgroups.
method Introducing subgroup-fair and instant-fair learning of LDS from multiple trajectories of varying lengths, using hierarchies of convexifications of non-commutative polynomial optimisation problems.
result Empirical results show both the beneficial impact of fairness considerations on statistical performance and encouraging effects of exploiting sparsity on run time.
Paper tackles fairness in insurance machine learning models using active learning.
problem Reducing labeling effort and promoting fairness in insurance machine learning.
method Introduces a fair active learning method to sample informative and fair instances.
result Achieves a balance between model performance and fairness in insurance datasets.
Fairness in machine learning increases privacy risks, especially for underrepresented groups.
problem Privacy risks in fair machine learning models, particularly for underrepresented groups.
method Membership inference attacks to measure information leakage and analyze fairness vs. privacy trade-offs.
result Achieving fairness in machine learning models increases privacy risks, especially for underrepresented groups.
Fair active learning selects data points to balance model accuracy and fairness.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models used in high-stakes applications.
method Designing algorithms for fair active learning that select data points to balance model accuracy and fairness, focusing on demographic parity.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed fair active learning approach over benchmark datasets.
Ditto improves fairness and robustness in federated learning.
problem Fairness and robustness in statistically heterogeneous federated learning networks.
method Personalized federated learning framework (Ditto) with a scalable solver.
result Ditto achieves competitive performance and superior fairness and robustness compared to existing methods.
The paper explores fairness in credit scoring using machine learning.
problem The lack of research on fair machine learning in credit scoring.
method Revisits statistical fairness criteria, catalogs algorithmic options, and empirically compares fairness processors.
result Multiple fairness criteria can be approximately satisfied at once, and fair processors deliver a good balance between profit and fairness.
UDJ-FL framework achieves multiple distributive justice-based fairness metrics in federated learning.
problem Ensuring fairness in federated learning across different client data distributions.
method UDJ-FL framework uses aleatoric uncertainty-based client weighing and fair resource allocation techniques.
result UDJ-FL achieves egalitarian, utilitarian, Rawls' difference principle, and desert-based fairness metrics.
Develops algorithm to make fair decisions from biased data.
problem Ethical concerns in machine learning fairness.
method Fair Learning through Data Preprocessing (FLAP) algorithm.
result Counterfactual fairness equivalent to conditional independence.
The paper addresses fairness in machine learning models through structural econometrics, projecting indexes into null spaces to find fair solutions.
problem Fairness concerns in machine learning, especially regarding disadvantaged groups.
method Model fairness as a linear operator, projecting indexes into null spaces to find fair solutions, balancing status quo and full fairness.
result Achieving approximate fairness by introducing a fairness penalty and balancing influences.
The paper tackles fairness in data and algorithms, expanding on prior work.
problem Discrimination and disparate treatment in data and algorithms.
method Targeted learning for nonparametric inference of fairness in the data generating process.
result Derivation and validation of estimators for fairness metrics like demographic parity and equal opportunity.
FADE framework improves fairness and accuracy in ensemble learning.
problem Improving fairness in existing models without sacrificing accuracy.
method Flexible fair ensemble learning framework targeting multiple fairness criteria.
result Multiple unfairness measures can be minimized simultaneously with little impact on accuracy.
PropFair algorithm ensures fair performance in federated learning.
problem Ensuring fair performance in federated learning for diverse clients.
method PropFair, a novel algorithm based on bargaining games, finds proportionally fair solutions.
result PropFair approximately finds proportional fairness solutions and balances average and worst 10% client performances.
Motivated by concerns surrounding the fairness effects of sharing and transferring fair machine learning tools, we propose two algorithms: Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML. The first is a model-agnostic algorithm that provides interpretable boundary conditions for when a fairly trained model may not behave fairly on sim…
MMD-B-Fair learns fair representations by minimizing MMD test power.
problem Learning fair representations of data while preserving target attributes.
method Kernel two-sample testing and block testing schemes.
result Minimizing MMD test power allows hiding sensitive attribute information.
New clustering method ensures fairness and community preservation.
problem Fairness in clustering, especially for data points representing people.
method Developed an approach to extend k-center algorithms to satisfy pairwise fairness and community preservation. result Reasonable approximations of optimal clustering can be achieved while maintaining fairness.
Fairness is essential for human society, contributing to stability and productivity. Similarly, fairness is also the key for many multi-agent systems. Taking fairness into multi-agent learning could help multi-agent systems become both efficient and stable. However, learning efficiency and fairness simultaneously is a …
Examines fairness in ML for health, highlighting its importance and challenges.
problem Ensuring fairness in ML models for health to prevent health disparities.
method Reviews fairness notions in ML for health, including group, individual, and causal-based approaches.
result Discusses the importance and challenges of fairness in health-focused ML applications.
Bayesian data selection framework ensures fairness in machine learning models.
problem High computational costs and limited scalability of fairness-aware methods.
method Bayesian data selection framework using generalized discrepancy measures.
result Consistently outperforms existing methods in fairness and accuracy.
We introduce the study of fairness in multi-armed bandit problems. Our fairness definition can be interpreted as demanding that given a pool of applicants (say, for college admission or mortgages), a worse applicant is never favored over a better one, despite a learning algorithm's uncertainty over the true payoffs. We…
Unified framework for fair representation learning in machine learning.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models, especially when biased data representations lead to unfair predictions.
method Integrates nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction with deep learning to construct fair and informative representations, introducing a penalty term to enforce conditional independence between sensitive attributes and learned representations.
result Achieves a superior balance between fairness and utility, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines on various data structures.
Enhances fairness in predictions without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Balancing fairness and predictive performance in machine learning.
method Model ensemble-based post-processing framework.
result Framework effectively enhances fairness while maintaining predictive accuracy.
CFFL framework improves fairness in FL without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Overfitting and lack of collaborative fairness in Federated Learning.
method CFFL framework uses reputation to ensure participants converge to different models.
result CFFL achieves high fairness, comparable accuracy, and better performance than Standalone and Distributed frameworks.
FIFA improves fairness in imbalanced datasets by encouraging both classification and fairness generalization.
problem Imbalanced datasets lead to poor fairness generalization in classifiers.
method FIFA: Imbalance-Fairness-Aware approach that encourages both classification and fairness generalization.
result FIFA improves fairness generalization on real-world datasets.
Proposes a framework for partially fair machine learning models.
problem Achieving full fairness across all score ranges compromises predictive performance.
method Formulates model training as constrained optimization with difference-of-convex constraints, solvable by IDCA.
result Demonstrates high predictive performance while enforcing partial fairness in specific percentile intervals.
Maximal correlation framework improves fairness in machine learning algorithms.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms.
method Introducing maximal correlation framework for fairness constraints and deriving regularizers.
result The approach provides smooth performance-fairness tradeoff curves and competitive performance.
Develops fair classifiers robust to training distribution perturbations.
problem Ensuring fairness in classifiers robust to training data perturbations.
method Formulates a min-max objective function to minimize distributionally robust training loss while maintaining fairness for perturbed distributions. Uses an iterative online learning algorithm to find a fair and robust classifier.
result Our classifier maintains fairness and accuracy for a wide range of perturbations compared to state-of-the-art fair classifiers.
New algorithm tackles subgroup fairness in AI with multiple sensitive attributes.
problem Heavy computational burdens and data sparsity in subgroup fairness for multiple sensitive attributes.
method Doubly Regressing Adversarial learning (DRAF) for subgroup fairness, focusing on subgroups with sufficient sample sizes and marginal fairness.
result DRAF algorithm reduces a surrogate fairness gap for supIPM with less computation than directly reducing supIPM.
Proposes a method to enforce fairness in machine learning models without sensitive data.
problem Bias in machine learning models from historical data.
method Infers sensitive attributes from auxiliary features and integrates fairness constraints into model training.
result Mitigates bias while preserving predictive accuracy.