On the impossibility of non-trivial accuracy in presence of fairness constraints

C Pinzón, C Palamidessi, P Piantanida… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
One of the main concerns about fairness in machine learning (ML) is that, in order to achieve
it, one may have to trade off some accuracy. To overcome this issue, Hardt et al. proposed …

FLEA: Provably Robust Fair Multisource Learning from Unreliable Training Data

E Iofinova, N Konstantinov, CH Lampert - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11732, 2021 - arxiv.org
Fairness-aware learning aims at constructing classifiers that not only make accurate
predictions, but also do not discriminate against specific groups. It is a fast-growing area of …

Approaching machine learning fairness through adversarial network

X Wang, H Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03013, 2019 - arxiv.org
Fairness is becoming a rising concern wrt machine learning model performance. Especially
for sensitive fields such as criminal justice and loan decision, eliminating the prediction …

On a utilitarian approach to privacy preserving text generation

Z Xu, A Aggarwal, O Feyisetan, N Teissier - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Differentially-private mechanisms for text generation typically add carefully calibrated noise
to input words and use the nearest neighbor to the noised input as the output word. When …

Counterfactual fairness: removing direct effects through regularization

PG Di Stefano, JM Hickey, V Vasileiou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.10774, 2020 - arxiv.org
Building machine learning models that are fair with respect to an unprivileged group is a
topical problem. Modern fairness-aware algorithms often ignore causal effects and enforce …

A maximal correlation approach to imposing fairness in machine learning

J Lee, Y Bu, P Sattigeri, R Panda… - ICASSP 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As machine learning algorithms grow in popularity and diversify to many industries, ethical
and legal concerns regarding their fairness have become increasingly relevant. We explore …

Trade-Offs Between Fairness and Privacy in Language Modeling

C Matzken, S Eger, I Habernal - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14936, 2023 - arxiv.org
Protecting privacy in contemporary NLP models is gaining in importance. So does the need
to mitigate social biases of such models. But can we have both at the same time? Existing …

Fair bayesian optimization

V Perrone, M Donini, MB Zafar, R Schmucker… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Given the increasing importance of machine learning (ML) in our lives, several algorithmic
fairness techniques have been proposed to mitigate biases in the outcomes of the ML …

Fair Supervised Learning with A Simple Random Sampler of Sensitive Attributes

J Sohn, Q Song, G Lin - International Conference on Artificial …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
As the data-driven decision process becomes dominating for industrial applications, fairness-
aware machine learning arouses great attention in various areas. This work proposes …

Can active learning preemptively mitigate fairness issues?

F Branchaud-Charron, P Atighehchian… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Dataset bias is one of the prevailing causes of unfairness in machine learning. Addressing
fairness at the data collection and dataset preparation stages therefore becomes an …