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Robust Decentralized Fairness Auditing
Oct 7, 2026Sayan Biswas, Jade Garcia Bourrée, Anne-Marie Kermarrec +2Algorithmic Auditing LLM Auditing
EPFL, Switzerland
Justice After Identity: Large Language Models and the View from Everywhere
Oct 6, 2026W. Russell NeumanMoral Reasoning in Language Models Moral Reasoning
FairRSFM: A Biome-Aware Benchmark and Debiasing Framework for Remote Sensing Foundation Models
Oct 5, 2026Md Aminur Hossain, Omkumar Vaghasiya, Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi +2Geospatial Foundation Models Neural Network Robustness
Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India · Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India · Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Debias Anything: Fairness with Diversity without Supervision in Diffusion Models
Oct 1, 2026Théau d'Audiffret, Mariia Vladimirova, Jean-Yves FranceschiDiffusion Model Guidance Debiased ML
Criteo AI Lab, Paris, France · ESSEC Business School, France · CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France +1
Beyond Demographic Balance: Multi-Metric and Intersectional Evaluation of Fairness in MIMIC-IV Mortality Prediction
Oct 1, 2026Abdullah Al Noman, Fahmid Al Rifat, Tahrima Hashem +3Algorithmic Fairness Intersectional Fairness
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia, USA · University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas, USA · University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia +3
Minimax Optimal Regret for Causal Logistic Bandits with Counterfactual Fairness
Oct 1, 2026Junhyuk Huh, Seoungbin Bae, Dabeen LeeMulti-Armed Bandits Minimax Regret
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge · Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, KAIST · Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University
Tolerance-Based Fairness Auditing: Violation Certification and Sensitivity Screening
Oct 1, 2026Jie Tang, Chuanlong Xie, Lixing ZhuAlgorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Fairness
School of Statistics, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, Guangdong 519087, China
Efficient Active Auditing of Multi-Group Fairness with Bias Probes
Sep 30, 2026Ayoub Ajarra, Debabrota BasuAlgorithmic Fairness Group Fairness
´Equipe Scool, Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189- CRIStAL
A Rank Graduation metric for Algorithmic fairness
Sep 30, 2026Dalia Atif, Paolo GiudiciAlgorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Fairness
Fairness Theatre: Evaluating Post-Hoc Fairness Interventions in Vendor-Controlled Early Warning Systems
Sep 29, 2026Kelly McConvey, Angelina Zhai, Rebecca Li +1Algorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Fairness
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Pruning for Efficiency, Paying in Fairness: Demographic Disparities in Pruned Speech-LLMs
Sep 29, 2026Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri, Michael Kampouridis, Ravi ShekharLLM Pruning Algorithmic Fairness
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK
A Comprehensive View of Fairness through Distributional Stability
Sep 29, 2026Gayane Taturyan, Charlotte Laclau, Stephan ClémenconDistribution Shift Robustness Algorithmic Fairness
LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
FairDiff: Mitigating the Self-Reinforcing Matthew Effect in Diffusion Recommender Models
Sep 29, 2026Song-Li Wu, Xianquan Wang, Zhaocheng Du +2Diffusion Guidance Algorithmic Fairness
Tsinghua University · University of Science and Technology of China · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
CAMEO: A Class-Activation-Mapped Equitable Overlay Framework for Fair and Robust Deep Learning-based Skin Condition Diagnosis
Sep 28, 2026Youssef Attia, Debasmita MukherjeeSkin Lesion Classification Algorithmic Fairness
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Investigating the Effect of k-NN Preprocessing on Developing Graph Neural Networks: A Fairness-Based Perspective
Sep 27, 2026Nikolaos Zafeiropoulos, Emmanouil Mavrikos, George E. TsekourasGraph Neural Networks Algorithmic Fairness
Department of Cultural Technology and Communication University of the Aegean Mytilene, Greece
The Gold in Bias: Maturing the AI Design Process through Verification
Sep 24, 2026Samira Maghool, Paolo CeravoloAlgorithmic Fairness Algorithmic Bias
Pegaso University, Italy · University of Milan, Italy
Compliant with Local Controls, Collectively Discriminatory. A Governance Architecture for Multi-Agent AI in Regulated Finance
Sep 23, 2026Jose Manuel de la Chica Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Vera Diaz, Pablo Delgado RomeroFinancial Services Algorithmic Fairness
Santander AI Lab, Grupo Santander, Madrid, Spain
Consequential Behaviour and Representational Fairness in the Validation of Synthetic Research
Sep 23, 2026Florian Kutzner, Celina Kacperski, Laura de Molière +4Algorithmic Fairness Large Language Model-Based Social Simulation
decision-context. · Seeburg Castle University, Seekirchen am Wallersee, Austria. · Artificial Societies Ltd., London, United Kingdom. +1
When Entanglement Lower-Bounds Disparity: Auditing and Repairing Demographic Fairness in Audio Understanding Models
Sep 23, 2026Kian Shamsaie, Iman ModarressiDisentangled Representation Learning Audio Representation Learning
People Make Things
FairTest: Search-Based Fairness Testing for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems
Sep 23, 2026Xiaotong Wang, Xuan XieAutomated Software Testing Algorithmic Fairness
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao SAR, China
When Post-Processing Fairness Constraints Help and When They Harm: Evidence from Eight Cross-Domain Evaluations
Sep 22, 2026Nithin Raghava Ramachandra NarlaAlgorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Fairness
Independent Researcher, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, United States
FairMean: Promoting Fairness in Distributed Learning under Label Poisoning Attacks
Sep 22, 2026Huigan Zheng, Jiaojiao Zhang, Yongxiang LiuAlgorithmic Fairness Adaptive Loss Weighting
Sun Yat-Sen University · Pengcheng Laboratory · Great Bay University
Queer inclusion in speech datasets: An audit and taxonomy of practical tensions
Sep 21, 2026Brooklyn Sheppard, Anaelia Ovalle, Adina Williams +1Algorithmic Fairness
University of Calgary · Meta FAIR
Identifying Representational Biases in Datasets Using PCA: A Max-Disparity Partition Framework
Sep 21, 2026Arjun KM, Shashi JainPrincipal Component Analysis Algorithmic Fairness
Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Childhood Stunting in Bangladesh: Fairness and Temporal Robustness Assessment
Sep 21, 2026Md Ahshanul Haque, Muhammad Ashad KabirHealthcare Algorithmic Fairness
School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia
The AR Fairness Metamodel: A Structured Framework for Fairness Measures
Sep 16, 2026Julian Alfredo Mendez, Timotheus KampikFair Resource Allocation Algorithmic Fairness
Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
FairCompressAgent: An Agentic Framework for Fairness-Aware Model Compression for FPGA Deployment
Sep 15, 2026Yuanbo Guo, Yiyu ShiModel Compression Algorithmic Fairness
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, USA
FairLint-DL: An IDE-Native Tool for Fairness Debugging of Deep Learning Software
Sep 14, 2026Archit Rathod, Saeid Tizpaz-NiariAlgorithmic Fairness
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, USA
DenseFace: Bias Mitigation in Face Recognition via Density-Aware Probabilistic Matching
Sep 14, 2026Mansur Bultygov, Vadim Seliutin, Dmitry Nekhaev +1Algorithmic Fairness Algorithmic Bias
VisionLabs · Amazon Web Services · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating Model Retraining under Drift: Paired Comparisons of Cumulative Subgroup Disparity
Sep 9, 2026Aaron CerossAlgorithmic Fairness Group Fairness
Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
Efficient Fairness Auditing Across Guidance Scales in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Causal Abstraction
Sep 8, 2026Nabila Tasfiha Rahman, Rajatsubhra Chakraborty, Depeng Xu +1Classifier-Free Guidance Algorithmic Fairness
University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR, USA · University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC, USA
The Role of Uncertainty in Assessing the Fairness of Machine Learning Models
Sep 7, 2026Francesca Panero, Ernst C. Wit, Marco ScutariUncertainty Quantification Algorithmic Fairness
Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance, Sapienza Universit`a di Roma, Rome, 00161, Italy · Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, WC2B 4RR, UK · Faculty of Informatics, Universit`a della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, 6962, Switzerland +1
Counterfactual Fairness Audits of Multi-Step Clinical LLM Agents Require a Measured Per-Action Instability Floor
Sep 2, 2026Rohith Reddy Bellibaltu, Manpreet Singh, Deepak Parashar +1Counterfactual Evaluation Algorithmic Fairness
Florida International University · Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA · Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India +1
Portable Causal Fairness Across Synthetic Data Generator Families
Sep 2, 2026Steven Golob, Sikha Pentyala, Martine De CockAlgorithmic Fairness Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
University of Washington Tacoma
Disease Burden over Skin Tone: Decomposing the Dermatology-AI Generalization Gap
Sep 2, 2026Nirajan Kunwor, Sanjaya Poudel, Quoc-Huy Trinh +2Domain Generalization Skin Lesion Classification
Tribhuvan University · North Carolina A&T State University · Aalto University +1
Beyond Outcome Gaps: Process-Aware Fairness Diagnosis for LLM-based Multi-Agent Decision Systems
Sep 2, 2026Yiran Zhao, Lu Zhou, Liming Fang +4Algorithmic Fairness AI-Assisted Decision Making
1Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · 5Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization · 2Shandong University +2
Causal Evidentiary Governance for High-Risk Machine Learning Systems
Sep 1, 2026Samah Kareem, Barış ÇeliktaşAlgorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Accountability
Department of Computer Engineering, Isik University, Istanbul, Türkiye. · Department of Computer Engineering, I¸sık University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Collapsibility of Performance Metrics in Clinical Predictive AI
Aug 31, 2026João Matos, Ben Van Calster, Richard D. Riley +2Algorithmic Fairness Clinical Prediction
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford · KU Leuven · University of Birmingham +1
Fairness in multi-class multi-group classification problems via contextial coherent risk measures
Aug 31, 2026Darinka Dentcheva, Xiangyu TianAlgorithmic Fairness Multiclass Classification
Department of Mathematical Sciences · Stevens Institute of Technology · Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA +1
Subgroup performance analysis of adaptation strategies for chest X-ray foundation models
Aug 19, 2026Dhruv Gupta, Emma A. M. Stanley, Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro +2Chest X-Ray Classification Medical Imaging Foundation Models
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK · Causality in Healthcare AI Hub, UK · Department of Radiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK +1
Bias Mitigation in Face Recognition via Demographic-based Supervised Contrastive Learning
Aug 13, 2026Yu Linghu, Salman Mohammad, Xinyi Zhang +1Algorithmic Fairness Group Fairness
Department of Informatics University of Zurich
FSGR: Mitigating Token Frequency Bias for Fair SID-Based Generative Recommendation
Aug 13, 2026Yuchen Zheng, Sihan Xu, Jingwen Yang +3Algorithmic Fairness Generative Recommendation
1VCIP, TMCC, DISSec, College of Computer Science, Nankai University · 2VCIP, DISSec, College of Cryptology and Cyber Science, Nankai University
A Joint-Distribution Route to Fair Representations with Continuous Sensitive Attributes
Aug 11, 2026Yijin Ni, Xiaoming HuoRepresentation Learning Algorithmic Fairness
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 USA
Do Judges Behave Like Algorithms?
Aug 11, 2026Riya Manchanda, Eric Chen, Chloe Zhu +3Legal Judgment Prediction Algorithmic Fairness
Duke University · Sungkyunkwan University
Human versus Computer Vision
Aug 10, 2026Elena SirotkinaVisual Attention Algorithmic Fairness
Center for Data Science New York University
Procedural Fairness Failures in RLHF from Preference Averaging
Aug 10, 2026M P V S Gopinadh, Karthik Kamuju, Kummari Avinash +2Reward Modeling Algorithmic Fairness
Vishnu Institute of Technology
Fairness in Link Prediction Beyond Demographic Parity: A Reproducibility Study
Aug 10, 2026Valentijn Oldenburg, Floris de Kam, Stef de Wildt +1Learning to Rank Link Prediction
University of Amsterdam
CIFA: Contextual-Intersectional Fairness Auditing for Hidden Subgroup Discovery in Face Analysis
Aug 10, 2026Nazia Aslam, Khalid Adnan Alsayed, Thomas B. Moeslund +1Algorithmic Fairness Intersectional Fairness
Aalborg University, Denmark · Pioneer Centre for AI, Denmark · Ducaltus Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom +1
Measuring the Tokenization Premium: A Cost Audit for Underserved Language Communities
Aug 10, 2026Avijit Roy, Proma Roy, Hrishitva PatelAlgorithmic Fairness Token Efficiency
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA · The City College of New York, City University of New York, USA · University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
A Distribution Mapping Approach to Counterfactually Fair Reinforcement Learning
Aug 9, 2026Jianhan Zhang, Jitao Wang, John D. Piette +3Causal Counterfactual Generation Algorithmic Fairness
University of Michigan · LSE
A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Desiderata, Design, and Likely Behavioral Consequences
Aug 8, 2026Jobst Heitzig, Ram PothamAI Alignment Algorithmic Fairness
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany · Independent
Beyond Aggregate Calibration: Decomposing Income-Conditional Recall Disparities in Automated Credit Default Prediction
Aug 8, 2026Sai Srikar BoddupalliAlgorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Fairness
Independent Researcher
Negotiating Risk Boundaries in AI for Policing Through Mixed-Stakeholder Deliberation
Aug 5, 2026Mackenzie Jorgensen, Jo Reilly, Alex Sutherland +1Algorithmic Fairness Algorithmic Bias
Northumbria University, UK · University of Cambridge, UK · University of Oxford, UK
Manipulation-Proof Oblivious Audits against Deceptive Model Providers
Aug 5, 2026Augustin Godinot, Sofiane Azogagh, Julien Ferry +1Algorithmic Fairness Black-Box Model Auditing
1INRIA Centre de l’Universit´e de Rennes, France · 2EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France · 3CIRRELT & SCALE-AI Chair in Data-Driven Supply Chains, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montr´eal, Canada +1
Equitable System-Prompt Selection via Constrained Mixed-Strategy GroupDRO
Aug 5, 2026Mengyu Xu, Qiaoxin Yang, Zhihan Liu +4LLM Prompting Algorithmic Fairness
1The University of Chicago · 2SynAI Technologies, Inc. · 3Northwestern University +2
Variable Selection in the Context of AI Fairness
Aug 4, 2026Ivan Luciano Danesi, Chiara Frigerio, Fabio Maccaferri +2Algorithmic Fairness Group Fairness
UniCredit S.p.A., Milan, Italy. · 2Universit`a Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. · 3Cetif, Milan, Italy.
Implementing Causal Perception: Competing SCMs and Situated Fairness
Aug 4, 2026Jose M. ÁlvarezStructural Causal Models Algorithmic Fairness
Santander AI Lab, Madrid, Spain
GoT-CD: Graph-of-Thoughts Causal Discovery and the Fragility of Post-hoc Path-Specific Fairness Audits
Aug 3, 2026Nitish Nagesh, Elahe Khatibi, Thomas Dean Hughes +3Algorithmic Auditing Algorithmic Fairness
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA · University of Orléans, Orléans, France
Assessing the Impacts of Imperfect Datasets on Client Selections in Federated Learning
Aug 3, 2026Yuan-Heng Tsai, Li-Hsing Yen, Yan-Wei ChenAlgorithmic Fairness Client Selection in Federated Learning
Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
FairForensics: Seeing Expressions and Parsing Demographics via Vision-Language Modeling for Generalizable Fair Deepfake Detection
Aug 3, 2026Yaning Zhang, Jiao Wu, Zan Gao +1Algorithmic Fairness Deepfake Detection
Computer Vision Institute, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China · Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250014, China · Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and System, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China +2

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Robust Decentralized Fairness Auditing

Sayan Biswas, Jade Garcia Bourrée, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Palak+1

EPFL, Switzerland

Algorithmic Auditing LLM Auditing Algorithmic Fairness

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Emerging legislation requires large language models (LLMs) to be audited for compliance with regulatory standards, particularly fairness. Such black-box audits typically assume a single auditor with access to a large, representative set of queries. In practice, it can be difficult for an auditor to obtain such a query set, but multiple auditors can together cover the relevant demographic groups by auditing the LLM collaboratively with their individual query sets. However, relying on multiple auditors raises a fundamental trust problem, as they may act on behalf of the LLM provider to portray a misleading appearance of fairness, i.e., fairwashing. We propose Auditopus, a novel approach for robust decentralized fairness auditing. In Auditopus, auditing proceeds in rounds without a central server. In each round, every auditor issues a fixed number of queries to the LLM, and sends only cumulative statistics vectors of its query results to other auditors instead of sensitive queries in clear. The fairness of the audited LLM is then estimated by aggregating all the vectors. We show theoretically and empirically that even a single adversarial auditor in the network can steer this estimate by fabricating the vectors it sends, making an unfair LLM appear fair. To address this threat, Auditopus has each honest auditor locally down-weight any auditor whose cumulative statistics vectors are statistically inconsistent with previous ones. We implement Auditopus and compare it to robust aggregation baselines on two datasets with two pre-trained LLMs. Against an attacker that optimizes the vectors it sends to make the LLM appear fair, Auditopus reduces audit error by up to 78% on average relative to no defense and at least 62% relative to the robust aggregation baselines. Even when 49% of the auditors are adversarial, Auditopus never lets a very unfair or moderately unfair LLM pass as fair.

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