What-is and how-to for fairness in machine learning: A survey, reflection, and perspective

Z Tang, J Zhang, K Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We review and reflect on fairness notions proposed in machine learning literature and make
an attempt to draw connections to arguments in moral and political philosophy, especially …

Causal reinforcement learning: A survey

Z Deng, J Jiang, G Long, C Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.01452, 2023 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning is an essential paradigm for solving sequential decision problems
under uncertainty. Despite many remarkable achievements in recent decades, applying …

Weak proxies are sufficient and preferable for fairness with missing sensitive attributes

Z Zhu, Y Yao, J Sun, H Li, Y Liu - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Evaluating fairness can be challenging in practice because the sensitive attributes of data
are often inaccessible due to privacy constraints. The go-to approach that the industry …

Toward Structure Fairness in Dynamic Graph Embedding: A Trend-aware Dual Debiasing Approach

Y Li, Y Yang, J Cao, S Liu, H Tang, G Xu - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies successfully learned static graph embeddings that are structurally fair by
preventing the effectiveness disparity of high-and low-degree vertex groups in downstream …

Steering LLMs Towards Unbiased Responses: A Causality-Guided Debiasing Framework

J Li, Z Tang, X Liu, P Spirtes, K Zhang, L Leqi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) can easily generate biased and discriminative responses.
As LLMs tap into consequential decision-making (eg, hiring and healthcare), it is of crucial …

Procedural fairness through decoupling objectionable data generating components

Z Tang, J Wang, Y Liu, P Spirtes, K Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We reveal and address the frequently overlooked yet important issue of disguised
procedural unfairness, namely, the potentially inadvertent alterations on the behavior of …

What Hides behind Unfairness? Exploring Dynamics Fairness in Reinforcement Learning

Z Deng, J Jiang, G Long, C Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.10942, 2024 - arxiv.org
In sequential decision-making problems involving sensitive attributes like race and gender,
reinforcement learning (RL) agents must carefully consider long-term fairness while …

Long-Term Fairness Inquiries and Pursuits in Machine Learning: A Survey of Notions, Methods, and Challenges

U Gohar, Z Tang, J Wang, K Zhang, PL Spirtes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The widespread integration of Machine Learning systems in daily life, particularly in high-
stakes domains, has raised concerns about the fairness implications. While prior works have …

Towards Graph-Based Explainable Recommender Systems

Y Li - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Explainable recommender systems, which aim to provide accurate recommendations and
reliable explanations, have attracted significant research interest due to their ability to …

Learning and Socially Responsible Decision-Making with Strategic Feedback

Y Chen - 2024 - escholarship.org
In recent years, the concepts of``human-centered AI''and``responsible data science''have
gained prominence across multiple sectors, including academia, industry, government, and …