arXiv Machine Learning

When Interpretability Is Unequally Distributed: Fairness in Hybrid Interpretable Models

arXiv:2605. 28626v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hybrid interpretable models combine a transparent component with a black-box model by assigning some examples to the former and deferring the rest to the latter.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

Fairness-Aware Mixture-of-Experts via Subgroup Reweighting and Gate Regularization

The paper proposes a fairness-aware Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework that tackles routing-induced bias by applying subgroup reweighting to correct data imbalance and gate entropy regularization to prevent the gating network from collapsing onto subgroup attributes. This end-to-end approach keeps expert utilization balanced and interpretable, offering a clear view of how subgroups are allocated across experts. Experiments show that the method improves fairness while maintaining competitive predictive performance.

By Sunhee Hwang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Let's Unlearn Stereotypes Before Decision-Making: Assessing the Impact of Intrinsic Bias Mitigation on Downstream Fairness in LLMs

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.

By Mina Arzaghi, Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah, Florian Carichon, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Plante, Golnoosh Farnadi
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Debias Anything: Fairness with Diversity without Supervision in Diffusion Models

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.

By Th\'eau d'Audiffret, Mariia Vladimirova, Jean-Yves Franceschi
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Perturbation Effects on Robustness and Individual Fairness

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.

By Xuran Li, Hao Xue, Peng Wu, Xingjun Ma, Zhen Zhang, Huaming Chen, Flora D. Salim