FairNVT is a lightweight debiasing framework that injects calibrated Gaussian noise into sensitive embeddings learned by adapters for pretrained transformer-based encoders. By reducing sensitive-attribute leakage through orthogonality constraints and fairness regularization, it improves fairness metrics such as demographic parity difference and equalized odds while maintaining competitive task performance across vision and language datasets.
arXiv:2503.05684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained foundation models can be efficiently adapted for specific tasks using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), but the fairness properties of...
arXiv:2608. 14211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) have emerged as leading methods for tabular predictive tasks, leveraging in-context learning to predict on new data without task-specific training.
The paper introduces a method called Debias Anything that jointly addresses fairness and diversity in diffusion models without requiring sensitive-attribute annotations. By connecting a frozen diffusion model to a pretrained vision-language embedding space via an adapter, the approach uses pairs of text prompts to guide batch composition toward desired attribute proportions and employs a disagreement score to promote diversity. The method is applicable to both unconditional and text-conditional diffusion models and demonstrates improved quality and diversity while maintaining comparable fairness levels in experiments.
arXiv:2404. 01356v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations that can simultaneously degrade prediction robustness and individual fairness across diverse application settings.
FairReL is a fairness‑aware representation‑learning framework for deepfake detection that targets two subgroup‑sensitive components: multi‑scale spatial features and fine‑tuning‑induced residual features. It uses an SVD‑decomposed backbone to isolate residuals and introduces Group‑Conditional Wavelet Decorrelation (GCWD) and Subspace‑Localised Mean Alignment (SLMA) losses to suppress subgroup imbalance and align subgroup means. Experiments on FF++, Celeb‑DF, DFD, and DFDC show that FairReL improves unseen‑dataset AUC by 3.9% and reduces subgroup FPR disparity by 10.2% compared to the state‑of‑the‑art fairness‑aware detector.
arXiv:2404. 01356v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations that can simultaneously degrade prediction robustness and individual fairness across diverse application settings.
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.
arXiv:2606. 31704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of face detection models in real-world applications raises important fairness concerns, as these systems may showcase performance disparities across demographic groups.
arXiv:2509. 16462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems, where biased predictions can reinforce social and economic disparities.
arXiv:2608. 19381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network embedding methods learn low-dimensional representations of graph-structured data to support downstream tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and influence maximization.
arXiv:2609.16321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing fairness analysis tools predominantly operate as post-training evaluation frameworks, requiring practitioners to complete the full model dev...
arXiv:2608.29247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, and adversarial training (AT) has become a widely used approach for improvi...