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 …

Evaluating the social impact of generative ai systems in systems and society

I Solaiman, Z Talat, W Agnew, L Ahmad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generative AI systems across modalities, ranging from text, image, audio, and video, have
broad social impacts, but there exists no official standard for means of evaluating those …

A survey on intersectional fairness in machine learning: Notions, mitigation, and challenges

U Gohar, L Cheng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06969, 2023 - arxiv.org
The widespread adoption of Machine Learning systems, especially in more decision-critical
applications such as criminal sentencing and bank loans, has led to increased concerns …

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 …

FairGap: Fairness-aware recommendation via generating counterfactual graph

W Chen, Y Wu, Z Zhang, F Zhuang, Z He… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The emergence of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has greatly advanced the development
of recommendation systems. Recently, many researchers have leveraged GNN-based …

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 …

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 …

Documenting ethical considerations in open source ai models

H Gao, M Zahedi, C Treude, S Rosenstock… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Background: The development of AI-enabled software heavily depends on AI model
documentation, such as model cards, due to different domain expertise between software …

NeuFair: Neural Network Fairness Repair with Dropout

VA Dasu, A Kumar, S Tizpaz-Niari, G Tan - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper investigates neuron dropout as a post-processing bias mitigation method for
deep neural networks (DNNs). Neural-driven software solutions are increasingly applied in …

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 …