An overview of fairness in clustering

A Chhabra, K Masalkovaitė, P Mohapatra - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clustering algorithms are a class of unsupervised machine learning (ML) algorithms that
feature ubiquitously in modern data science, and play a key role in many learning-based …

A review of clustering models in educational data science toward fairness-aware learning

T Le Quy, G Friege, E Ntoutsi - … Proactive education based on empirical big …, 2023 - Springer
Ensuring fair access to quality education is essential for every education system to fully
realize every student's potential. Nowadays, machine learning (ML) is transforming …

Algorithmic fairness datasets: the story so far

A Fabris, S Messina, G Silvello, GA Susto - Data Mining and Knowledge …, 2022 - Springer
Data-driven algorithms are studied and deployed in diverse domains to support critical
decisions, directly impacting people's well-being. As a result, a growing community of …

Improved approximation algorithms for individually fair clustering

A Vakilian, M Yalciner - International conference on artificial …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the $ k $-clustering problem with $\ell_p $-norm cost, which includes $ k $-
median, $ k $-means and $ k $-center, under an individual notion of fairness proposed by …

Approximation algorithms for socially fair clustering

Y Makarychev, A Vakilian - Conference on Learning Theory, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present an (e^{O (p)}(log\ell)/(log log\ell))-approximation algorithm for socially fair
clustering with the l_p-objective. In this problem, we are given a set of points in a metric …

Approximation algorithms for fair range clustering

SS Hotegni, S Mahabadi… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper studies the fair range clustering problem in which the data points are from
different demographic groups and the goal is to pick $ k $ centers with the minimum …

Fair hierarchical clustering

S Ahmadian, A Epasto, M Knittel… - Advances in …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
As machine learning has become more prevalent, researchers have begun to recognize the
necessity of ensuring machine learning systems are fair. Recently, there has been an …

Fair and fast k-center clustering for data summarization

H Angelidakis, A Kurpisz, L Sering… - … on Machine Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider two key issues faced by many clustering methods when used for data
summarization, namely (a) an unfair representation of" demographic groups” and (b) …

Tackling documentation debt: a survey on algorithmic fairness datasets

A Fabris, S Messina, G Silvello, GA Susto - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A growing community of researchers has been investigating the equity of algorithms,
advancing the understanding of risks and opportunities of automated decision-making for …

Diverse data selection under fairness constraints

Z Moumoulidou, A McGregor, A Meliou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09141, 2020 - arxiv.org
Diversity is an important principle in data selection and summarization, facility location, and
recommendation systems. Our work focuses on maximizing diversity in data selection, while …