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 …

Bias in machine learning software: Why? how? what to do?

J Chakraborty, S Majumder, T Menzies - … of the 29th ACM joint meeting …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Increasingly, software is making autonomous decisions in case of criminal sentencing,
approving credit cards, hiring employees, and so on. Some of these decisions show bias …

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 …

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 …

Causality-based neural network repair

B Sun, J Sun, LH Pham, J Shi - … of the 44th International Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Neural networks have had discernible achievements in a wide range of applications. The
wide-spread adoption also raises the concern of their dependability and reliability. Similar to …

MAAT: a novel ensemble approach to addressing fairness and performance bugs for machine learning software

Z Chen, JM Zhang, F Sarro, M Harman - … of the 30th ACM joint european …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Machine Learning (ML) software can lead to unfair and unethical decisions, making software
fairness bugs an increasingly significant concern for software engineers. However …

An empirical study on correlations between deep neural network fairness and neuron coverage criteria

W Zheng, L Lin, X Wu, X Chen - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, with the widespread use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in high-stakes decision-
making systems (such as fraud detection and prison sentencing), concerns have arisen …

Training data debugging for the fairness of machine learning software

Y Li, L Meng, L Chen, L Yu, D Wu, Y Zhou… - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With the widespread application of machine learning (ML) software, especially in high-risk
tasks, the concern about their unfairness has been raised towards both developers and …

Fairea: A model behaviour mutation approach to benchmarking bias mitigation methods

M Hort, JM Zhang, F Sarro, M Harman - … of the 29th ACM joint meeting on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The increasingly wide uptake of Machine Learning (ML) has raised the significance of the
problem of tackling bias (ie, unfairness), making it a primary software engineering concern …

Correlations between deep neural network model coverage criteria and model quality

S Yan, G Tao, X Liu, J Zhai, S Ma, L Xu… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Inspired by the great success of using code coverage as guidance in software testing, a lot
of neural network coverage criteria have been proposed to guide testing of neural network …