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 …

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 …

Fairify: Fairness verification of neural networks

S Biswas, H Rajan - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fairness of machine learning (ML) software has become a major concern in the recent past.
Although recent research on testing and improving fairness have demonstrated impact on …

RULER: discriminative and iterative adversarial training for deep neural network fairness

G Tao, W Sun, T Han, C Fang, X Zhang - … of the 30th acm joint european …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming an integral part of many real-world
applications, such as autonomous driving and financial management. While these models …

FAIRER: fairness as decision rationale alignment

T Li, Q Guo, A Liu, M Du, Z Li… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant progress, but often suffer from fairness
issues, as deep models typically show distinct accuracy differences among certain …

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 …

Motif-backdoor: Rethinking the backdoor attack on graph neural networks via motifs

H Zheng, H **ong, J Chen, H Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph neural network (GNN) with a powerful representation capability has been widely
applied to various areas. Recent works have exposed that GNN is vulnerable to the …

Fairness in machine learning: definition, testing, debugging, and application

X Gao, C Shen, W Jiang, C Lin, Q Li, Q Wang… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in many fields, such
as computer vision, natural language processing and autonomous driving. Machine learning …