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 …

Toward Operationalizing Pipeline-aware ML Fairness: A Research Agenda for Developing Practical Guidelines and Tools

E Black, R Naidu, R Ghani, K Rodolfa, D Ho… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While algorithmic fairness is a thriving area of research, in practice, mitigating issues of bias
often gets reduced to enforcing an arbitrarily chosen fairness metric, either by enforcing …

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 reprogramming

G Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, W Fan… - Advances in …, 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The internet of federated things (IoFT)

R Kontar, N Shi, X Yue, S Chung, E Byon… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is on the verge of a major paradigm shift. In the IoT system of the
future, IoFT, the “cloud” will be substituted by the “crowd” where model training is brought to …