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 …

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 …

Mitigating unfairness via evolutionary multi-objective ensemble learning

Q Zhang, J Liu, Z Zhang, J Wen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the literature of mitigating unfairness in machine learning (ML), many fairness measures
are designed to evaluate predictions of learning models and also utilized to guide the …

An empirical study of modular bias mitigators and ensembles

M Feffer, M Hirzel, SC Hoffman, K Kate, P Ram… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
There are several bias mitigators that can reduce algorithmic bias in machine learning
models but, unfortunately, the effect of mitigators on fairness is often not stable when …

Enforcing fairness using ensemble of diverse Pareto-optimal models

V Guardieiro, MM Raimundo, J Poco - Data Mining and Knowledge …, 2023 - Springer
One of the main challenges of machine learning is to ensure that its applications do not
generate or propagate unfair discrimination based on sensitive characteristics such as …

Repfair-gan: Mitigating representation bias in gans using gradient clipping

PJ Kenfack, K Sabbagh, AR Rivera, A Khan - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Fairness has become an essential problem in many domains of Machine Learning (ML),
such as classification, natural language processing, and Generative Adversarial Networks …

Learning fair representations through uniformly distributed sensitive attributes

PJ Kenfack, AR Rivera, AM Khan… - 2023 IEEE Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine Learning (ML) models trained on biased data can reproduce and even amplify
these biases. Since such models are deployed to make decisions that can affect people's …

Searching for Fairer Machine Learning Ensembles

M Feffer, M Hirzel, SC Hoffman, K Kate… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bias mitigators can improve algorithmic fairness in machine learning models, but their effect
on fairness is often not stable across data splits. A popular approach to train more stable …

Evolutionary Algorithms for Fair Machine Learning

A Freitas, J Brookhouse - Handbook of Evolutionary Machine Learning, 2023 - Springer
At present, supervised machine learning algorithms are ubiquitously used to learn predictive
models that have a major impact on people's lives. However, the vast majority of such …

On the Robustness of Random Forest Against Untargeted Data Poisoning: An Ensemble-Based Approach

M Anisetti, CA Ardagna, A Balestrucci… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning is becoming ubiquitous. From finance to medicine, machine learning
models are boosting decision-making processes and even outperforming humans in some …