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 …

An adversarial training framework for mitigating algorithmic biases in clinical machine learning

J Yang, AAS Soltan, DW Eyre, Y Yang… - NPJ digital medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is becoming increasingly prominent in healthcare. Although its
benefits are clear, growing attention is being given to how these tools may exacerbate …

Information-theoretic testing and debugging of fairness defects in deep neural networks

V Monjezi, A Trivedi, G Tan… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deep feedforward neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in socioeconomic
critical decision support software systems. DNNs are exceptionally good at finding min-imal …

A comprehensive empirical study of bias mitigation methods for machine learning classifiers

Z Chen, JM Zhang, F Sarro, M Harman - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Software bias is an increasingly important operational concern for software engineers. We
present a large-scale, comprehensive empirical study of 17 representative bias mitigation …

Towards understanding fairness and its composition in ensemble machine learning

U Gohar, S Biswas, H Rajan - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine Learning (ML) software has been widely adopted in modern society, with reported
fairness implications for minority groups based on race, sex, age, etc. Many recent works …

Towards fair machine learning software: Understanding and addressing model bias through counterfactual thinking

Z Wang, Y Zhou, M Qiu, I Haque, L Brown, Y He… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) software can lead to unfair and unethical
decisions, thus fairness bugs in software are becoming a growing concern. Addressing …

Fairness-aware machine learning engineering: how far are we?

C Ferrara, G Sellitto, F Ferrucci, F Palomba… - Empirical software …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning is part of the daily life of people and companies worldwide.
Unfortunately, bias in machine learning algorithms risks unfairly influencing the decision …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective search for gender-fair and semantically correct word embeddings

M Hort, R Moussa, F Sarro - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Fairness is a crucial non-functional requirement of modern software systems that rely on the
use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make decisions regarding our daily lives in application …

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 …