arXiv:2606. 17810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we establish a set of theoretical impossibility results, termed the No-Free-Fairness theorems, that identify three fundamental sources of disparity in learning systems.
By Khoat Than
arXiv:2609.37061v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We view fairness as a property of distributional stability. Rather than assessing a predictor under a fixed data distribution, we study how its predi...
By Gayane Taturyan, Charlotte Laclau, Stephan Cl\'emencon
arXiv:2603. 04689v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fair top-$k$ selection, which ensures appropriate proportional representation of members from minority or historically disadvantaged groups among the top-$k$ selected candidates, has drawn significant attention.
By Guangya Cai
arXiv:2605. 01961v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning from human preference data is becoming a useful tool, from fine-tuning large language models to training reinforcement learning agents.
By Maheed H. Ahmed, Mahsa Ghasemi
arXiv:2606. 19883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem in the competitive setup with two-sided matching markets under a human centric decision making model.
By Ananya Kunisetty, Avishek Ghosh
arXiv:2608. 06469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative machine learning among financial institutions must be both group-fair and robust against deliberate adversarial manipulation.
By Devharsh Trivedi, Nesrine Kaaniche, Nikos Triandopoulos, Maryline Laurent, Jackson Walters
arXiv:2601. 10600v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the context of multi-agent multi-armed bandits (MA-MAB), fairness is often reduced to outcomes: maximizing welfare, reducing inequality, or balancing utilities.
By Joshua Caiata, Carter Blair, Kate Larson
The paper introduces ROME, a framework that learns latent group structure while optimizing worst-group predictive performance. ROME links latent-variable modeling with distributionally robust optimization through an Expectation-Maximization approach for linear models and a neural Mixture-of-Experts for nonlinear settings. Experiments on simulations and three real-world regression datasets show that ROME improves worst-group performance while maintaining competitive overall accuracy compared to existing group-aware and group-label-free robust learning methods.
By Siqi Li, Molei Liu, Yiwei Lyu, Ziye Tian, Chuan Hong, Nan Liu
arXiv:2607. 26485v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Resource allocation across multiple agent groups arises in many applications including e-commerce recommendation systems, housing assignment, and course allocation, and is commonly formulated as an optimization problem with diversity constraints to ensure group fairness.
By Keke Huang, Yik Yu Ng, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Xiaokui Xiao
arXiv:2607. 29441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world systems rely on predictive models to inform decisions, and fairness concerns arise in both the prediction and decision stages.
By Yu Wang (Xinying), Violet (Xinying), Chen
arXiv:2602. 16794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) offers distribution-free uncertainty quantification for machine learning models, yet its interplay with fairness in downstream decision-making remains underexplored.
By Pengqi Liu, Zijun Yu, Mouloud Belbahri, Arthur Charpentier, Masoud Asgharian, Jesse C. Cresswell
arXiv:2609.13469v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding how humans respond to incentives, both at the individual and collective levels, is crucial to the design of effective policies. Within...
By Haoyang Cao, G\"ok\c{c}e Dayan{\i}kl{\i}, Xiaofei Shi