Bias behind the wheel: Fairness testing of autonomous driving systems

X Li, Z Chen, J Zhang, F Sarro, Y Zhang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
This paper conducts fairness testing of automated pedestrian detection, a crucial but under-
explored issue in autonomous driving systems. We evaluate eight state-of-the-art deep …

A large-scale empirical study on improving the fairness of image classification models

J Yang, J Jiang, Z Sun, J Chen - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Fairness has been a critical issue that affects the adoption of deep learning models in real
practice. To improve model fairness, many existing methods have been proposed and …

Dark-skin individuals are at more risk on the street: Unmasking fairness issues of autonomous driving systems

X Li, Z Chen, JM Zhang, F Sarro, Y Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper conducts fairness testing on automated pedestrian detection, a crucial but under-
explored issue in autonomous driving systems. We evaluate eight widely-studied pedestrian …

Fair and green hyperparameter optimization via multi-objective and multiple information source Bayesian optimization

A Candelieri, A Ponti, F Archetti - Machine Learning, 2024 - Springer
It has been recently remarked that focusing only on accuracy in searching for optimal
Machine Learning models amplifies biases contained in the data, leading to unfair …

Design by Contract for Deep Learning APIs

S Ahmed, SM Imtiaz, SS Khairunnesa… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Deep Learning (DL) techniques are increasingly being incorporated in critical software
systems today. DL software is buggy too. Recent work in SE has characterized these bugs …

EvaluateXAI: A framework to evaluate the reliability and consistency of rule-based XAI techniques for software analytics tasks

MA Awal, CK Roy - Journal of Systems and Software, 2024 - Elsevier
The advancement of machine learning (ML) models has led to the development of ML-
based approaches to improve numerous software engineering tasks in software …

Inferring Data Preconditions from Deep Learning Models for Trustworthy Prediction in Deployment

S Ahmed, H Gao, H Rajan - Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Deep learning models are trained with certain assumptions about the data during the
development stage and then used for prediction in the deployment stage. It is important to …

A Large-scale Empirical Study on Improving the Fairness of Deep Learning Models

J Yang, J Jiang, Z Sun, J Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03695, 2024 - arxiv.org
Fairness has been a critical issue that affects the adoption of deep learning models in real
practice. To improve model fairness, many existing methods have been proposed and …

A Model-and Data-Agnostic Debiasing System for Achieving Equalized Odds

T Pinkava, J McFarland, A Mashhadi - … of the AAAI/ACM Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract As reliance on Machine Learning (ML) systems in real-world decision-making
processes grows, ensuring these systems are free of bias against sensitive demographic …

Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software

Z Chen, X Li, JM Zhang, F Sarro, Y Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08167, 2024 - arxiv.org
Intersectional fairness is a critical requirement for Machine Learning (ML) software,
demanding fairness across subgroups defined by multiple protected attributes. This paper …