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 …

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 …

Fair resource allocation in federated learning

T Li, M Sanjabi, A Beirami, V Smith - arxiv preprint arxiv:1905.10497, 2019 - arxiv.org
Federated learning involves training statistical models in massive, heterogeneous networks.
Naively minimizing an aggregate loss function in such a network may disproportionately …

Fair attribute classification through latent space de-biasing

VV Ramaswamy, SSY Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Fairness in visual recognition is becoming a prominent and critical topic of discussion as
recognition systems are deployed at scale in the real world. Models trained from data in …

Fairness-aware agnostic federated learning

W Du, D Xu, X Wu, H Tong - Proceedings of the 2021 SIAM International …, 2021 - SIAM
Federated learning is an emerging framework that builds centralized machine learning
models with training data distributed across multiple devices. Most of the previous works …

Fairness reprogramming

G Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, W Fan… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Despite a surge of recent advances in promoting machine Learning (ML) fairness, the
existing mainstream approaches mostly require training or finetuning the entire weights of …

Tilted empirical risk minimization

T Li, A Beirami, M Sanjabi, V Smith - arxiv preprint arxiv:2007.01162, 2020 - arxiv.org
Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is typically designed to perform well on the average loss,
which can result in estimators that are sensitive to outliers, generalize poorly, or treat …

Nonconvex min-max optimization: Applications, challenges, and recent theoretical advances

M Razaviyayn, T Huang, S Lu… - IEEE Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The min-max optimization problem, also known as the<; i> saddle point problem<;/i>, is a
classical optimization problem that is also studied in the context of zero-sum games. Given a …

Beyond adult and compas: Fair multi-class prediction via information projection

W Alghamdi, H Hsu, H Jeong, H Wang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider the problem of producing fair probabilistic classifiers for multi-class
classification tasks. We formulate this problem in terms of``projecting''a pre-trained (and …

Algorithmic fairness datasets: the story so far

A Fabris, S Messina, G Silvello, GA Susto - Data Mining and Knowledge …, 2022 - Springer
Data-driven algorithms are studied and deployed in diverse domains to support critical
decisions, directly impacting people's well-being. As a result, a growing community of …