Bias mitigation for machine learning classifiers: A comprehensive survey

M Hort, Z Chen, JM Zhang, M Harman… - ACM Journal on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This article provides a comprehensive survey of bias mitigation methods for achieving
fairness in Machine Learning (ML) models. We collect a total of 341 publications concerning …

Fairness testing: A comprehensive survey and analysis of trends

Z Chen, JM Zhang, M Hort, M Harman… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Unfair behaviors of Machine Learning (ML) software have garnered increasing attention and
concern among software engineers. To tackle this issue, extensive research has been …

Rethinking membership inference attacks against transfer learning

C Wu, J Chen, Q Fang, K He, Z Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transfer learning, successful in knowledge translation across related tasks, faces a
substantial privacy threat from membership inference attacks (MIAs). These attacks, despite …

It's All in the Touch: Authenticating Users with HOST Gestures on Multi-Touch Screen Devices

C Wu, H Cao, G Xu, C Zhou, J Sun… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As smartphones proliferate, secure and user-friendly authentication methods are
increasingly critical. Existing behavioral biometrics, however, are often compromised by …

[HTML][HTML] Toward fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI for social media and health care: sco** review

A Singhal, N Neveditsin, H Tanveer… - JMIR Medical …, 2024 - medinform.jmir.org
Background: The use of social media for disseminating health care information has become
increasingly prevalent, making the expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine …

Fairness improvement with multiple protected attributes: How far are we?

Z Chen, JM Zhang, F Sarro, M Harman - Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Existing research mostly improves the fairness of Machine Learning (ML) software regarding
a single protected attribute at a time, but this is unrealistic given that many users have …

Fairness testing of machine translation systems

Z Sun, Z Chen, J Zhang, D Hao - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Machine translation is integral to international communication and extensively employed in
diverse human-related applications. Despite remarkable progress, fairness issues persist …

Fix fairness, don't ruin accuracy: Performance aware fairness repair using automl

G Nguyen, S Biswas, H Rajan - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in critical decision-making software, but
incidents have raised questions about the fairness of ML predictions. To address this issue …

NeuFair: Neural Network Fairness Repair with Dropout

VA Dasu, A Kumar, S Tizpaz-Niari, G Tan - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper investigates neuron dropout as a post-processing bias mitigation method for
deep neural networks (DNNs). Neural-driven software solutions are increasingly applied in …

Causality-aided trade-off analysis for machine learning fairness

Z Ji, P Ma, S Wang, Y Li - 2023 38th IEEE/ACM International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There has been an increasing interest in enhancing the fairness of machine learning (ML).
Despite the growing number of fairness-improving methods, we lack a systematic …