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 …

Black-box access is insufficient for rigorous ai audits

S Casper, C Ezell, C Siegmann, N Kolt… - The 2024 ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
External audits of AI systems are increasingly recognized as a key mechanism for AI
governance. The effectiveness of an audit, however, depends on the degree of access …

Fairness issues, current approaches, and challenges in machine learning models

TD Jui, P Rivas - International Journal of Machine Learning and …, 2024 - Springer
With the increasing influence of machine learning algorithms in decision-making processes,
concerns about fairness have gained significant attention. This area now offers significant …

A comprehensive empirical study of bias mitigation methods for machine learning classifiers

Z Chen, JM Zhang, F Sarro, M Harman - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Software bias is an increasingly important operational concern for software engineers. We
present a large-scale, comprehensive empirical study of 17 representative bias mitigation …

Cctest: Testing and repairing code completion systems

Z Li, C Wang, Z Liu, H Wang, D Chen… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code completion, a highly valuable topic in the software development domain, has been
increasingly promoted for use by recent advances in large language models (LLMs). To …

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 …

Latent imitator: Generating natural individual discriminatory instances for black-box fairness testing

Y Xiao, A Liu, T Li, X Liu - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) systems have achieved remarkable performance across a wide area
of applications. However, they frequently exhibit unfair behaviors in sensitive application …

Towards fair machine learning software: Understanding and addressing model bias through counterfactual thinking

Z Wang, Y Zhou, M Qiu, I Haque, L Brown, Y He… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) software can lead to unfair and unethical
decisions, thus fairness bugs in software are becoming a growing concern. Addressing …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-objective search for gender-fair and semantically correct word embeddings

M Hort, R Moussa, F Sarro - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Fairness is a crucial non-functional requirement of modern software systems that rely on the
use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make decisions regarding our daily lives in application …

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 …