arXiv:2608.30568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Population level assessments of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) can conceal performance disparities across subgroups. Fairness ev...
The paper examines how fairness conclusions in ICU mortality prediction using MIMIC-IV depend on the choice of metrics and the granularity of demographic analysis. It compares predictive-utility and subgroup-error metrics across various fairness interventions and introduces a lightweight adaptation strategy that balances ethnicity, gender, and insurance representation without conditioning on mortality outcomes. The study finds that different interventions can be evaluated differently across accuracy, sensitivity, and false-positive rate, and that marginal demographic summaries may hide heterogeneous error patterns within intersectional subgroups.
arXiv:2607. 08953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic fairness methods are increasingly used to identify and mitigate bias in machine learning models, yet most approaches are evaluated in isolation and along single demographic axes.
arXiv:2603. 13373v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In ubiquitous and mobile health systems, computational models infer human states from wearable, behavioral, and physiological sensing data.
The paper investigates demographic bias in large language model (LLM) predictions of ICU mortality and introduces Case-Based Prompting (CAP), a training‑free method that adds clinically similar historical cases as contextual evidence. CAP improves predictive performance on the MIMIC‑IV dataset, raising AUROC from 0.806 to 0.873 and AUPRC from 0.497 to 0.694, while reducing subgroup disparities for sex and White‑Black comparisons. The study also shows that simply removing demographic information does not uniformly enhance fairness or accuracy, and that feature‑dependence patterns remain consistent across groups.
FairGlucose is a 300‑patient CGM cohort balanced across 12 demographic strata, providing 132,480 forecasting samples and 3,945 behavioral events. Benchmarking 33 models on 2‑hour glucose forecasting revealed that population‑level validation masks significant subgroup disparities, with error ratios ranging from 0.8 to 1.4 and T1D patients experiencing 6 mg/dL higher error than T2D. The study shows that these gaps persist across all models, align with clinically hard cases, and vary with input‑length sensitivity, underscoring the need for subgroup‑disaggregated reporting in digital health AI.
Algorithmic fairness methods are increasingly used to identify and mitigate bias in machine learning models, yet most approaches are evaluated in isolation and along single demographic axes. This limits practical guidance for selecting fairness strategies, where disparities may arise across intersectional subgroups and across multiple stages of the modeling lifecycle.
arXiv:2607. 07717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In chest X-ray (CXR) classification, acceptable ranking performance can still leave rare-positive patients below threshold, especially within subgroups.
In chest X-ray (CXR) classification, acceptable ranking performance can still leave rare-positive patients below threshold, especially within subgroups. We study this pre-deployment fairness problem as an audit question: after a long-tailed multi-label CXR model is converted from scores into decisions, who is missed?
The paper introduces FRAME, a two‑step framework for auditing fairness claims in medical imaging. First, it derives a fair‑model reference distribution that captures the portion of subgroup performance differences attributable to sampling variation. Second, it tests the remaining difference using operators in representation space to assess whether demographic information or disease entanglement drives the bias. Across a large dataset of 702,206 images and 36 encoders, the reference explains a substantial median share of race and age differences, while interventions such as injecting demographic decodability or entangling disease direction have limited impact on the residual bias.
The paper introduces a penalized fair regression framework that incorporates unfairness penalties for multiple groups, specifically targeting binary outcomes with true positive rate disparity penalties. It can be efficiently implemented via a reduction to cost‑sensitive classification and includes new score functions for selecting penalty weights automatically. Empirical studies show that the method achieves a better fairness‑accuracy trade‑off than existing approaches, and when applied to a national chronic kidney disease dataset it markedly improves fairness across race and ethnicity groups without significantly harming overall model fit.
FairLRF proposes a fairness-oriented low rank factorization framework that uses singular value decomposition (SVD) to improve deep learning model fairness. By selectively removing bias-inducing elements from the unitary matrices obtained via SVD, the method reduces group disparities while preserving accuracy. Experiments demonstrate that FairLRF outperforms existing low rank factorization and state-of-the-art fairness techniques, and an ablation study explores the impact of key hyper-parameters.