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most citedFairness without the sensitive attribute via Causal Variational Autoencoder

23 citations · 81 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2026

Energy Consumption Analysis of Discrete Diffusion and Autoregressive Language Models

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to scale, their energy consumption during inference has become a critical concern. While Autoregressive (AR) models are the industry standa…

cs.DC2026

The Cost of Context: Profiling the Energy Footprint of Input Tokens in Large Language Models

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

The rapid adoption of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and long-context LLMs has shifted the computational burden toward the prefill phase---the initial stage where the model p…

cs.LG2025

Energy Scaling Laws for Diffusion Models: Quantifying Compute in Image Generation

Aniketh Iyengar, Jiaqi Han, Boris Ruf +3

The rapidly growing computational demands of diffusion models for image generation have raised significant concerns about energy consumption and environmental impact. While existin…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Mitigating the Carbon Footprint of Chatbots as Consumers

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

In the context of the high energy demand of large language models (LLMs) and growing concerns about global warming, there is significant demand for actionable recommendations that…

cs.HC2024

The "Huh?" Button: Improving Understanding in Educational Videos with Large Language Models

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

We propose a simple way to use large language models (LLMs) in education. Specifically, our method aims to improve individual comprehension by adding a novel feature to online vide…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Why do explanations fail? A typology and discussion on failures in XAI

Clara Bove, Thibault Laugel, Marie-Jeanne Lesot +2

As Machine Learning models achieve unprecedented levels of performance, the XAI domain aims at making these models understandable by presenting end-users with intelligible explanat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

OptiGrad: A Fair and more Efficient Price Elasticity Optimization via a Gradient Based Learning

Vincent Grari, Marcin Detyniecki

This paper presents a novel approach to optimizing profit margins in non-life insurance markets through a gradient descent-based method, targeting three key objectives: 1) maximizi…

cs.LG2023

On the Fairness ROAD: Robust Optimization for Adversarial Debiasing

Vincent Grari, Thibault Laugel, Tatsunori Hashimoto +2

In the field of algorithmic fairness, significant attention has been put on group fairness criteria, such as Demographic Parity and Equalized Odds. Nevertheless, these objectives,…

cs.CY2023

Open and Linked Data Model for Carbon Footprint Scenarios

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

Carbon footprint quantification is key to well-informed decision making over carbon reduction potential, both for individuals and for companies. Many carbon footprint case studies…

cs.AI2023★ 15 cited

Achieving Diversity in Counterfactual Explanations: a Review and Discussion

Thibault Laugel, Adulam Jeyasothy, Marie-Jeanne Lesot +2

In the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), counterfactual examples explain to a user the predictions of a trained decision model by indicating the modifications to…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

When mitigating bias is unfair: multiplicity and arbitrariness in algorithmic group fairness

Natasa Krco, Thibault Laugel, Vincent Grari +2

Most research on fair machine learning has prioritized optimizing criteria such as Demographic Parity and Equalized Odds. Despite these efforts, there remains a limited understandi…

cs.AI2022

Integrating Prior Knowledge in Post-hoc Explanations

Adulam Jeyasothy, Thibault Laugel, Marie-Jeanne Lesot +2

In the field of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), post-hoc interpretability methods aim at explaining to a user the predictions of a trained decision model. Integrating pr…

stat.ML2022★ 12 cited

A Fair Pricing Model via Adversarial Learning

Vincent Grari, Arthur Charpentier, Marcin Detyniecki

At the core of insurance business lies classification between risky and non-risky insureds, actuarial fairness meaning that risky insureds should contribute more and pay a higher p…

cs.LG2021★ 23 cited

Fairness without the sensitive attribute via Causal Variational Autoencoder

Vincent Grari, Sylvain Lamprier, Marcin Detyniecki

In recent years, most fairness strategies in machine learning models focus on mitigating unwanted biases by assuming that the sensitive information is observed. However this is not…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

How to choose an Explainability Method? Towards a Methodical Implementation of XAI in Practice

Tom Vermeire, Thibault Laugel, Xavier Renard +2

Explainability is becoming an important requirement for organizations that make use of automated decision-making due to regulatory initiatives and a shift in public awareness. Vari…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Understanding surrogate explanations: the interplay between complexity, fidelity and coverage

Rafael Poyiadzi, Xavier Renard, Thibault Laugel +2

This paper analyses the fundamental ingredients behind surrogate explanations to provide a better understanding of their inner workings. We start our exposition by considering glob…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

On the overlooked issue of defining explanation objectives for local-surrogate explainers

Rafael Poyiadzi, Xavier Renard, Thibault Laugel +2

Local surrogate approaches for explaining machine learning model predictions have appealing properties, such as being model-agnostic and flexible in their modelling. Several method…

cs.AI2021

Explaining how your AI system is fair

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

To implement fair machine learning in a sustainable way, choosing the right fairness objective is key. Since fairness is a concept of justice which comes in various, sometimes conf…

cs.LG2021

Implementing Fair Regression In The Real World

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

Most fair regression algorithms mitigate bias towards sensitive sub populations and therefore improve fairness at group level. In this paper, we investigate the impact of such impl…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Understanding Prediction Discrepancies in Machine Learning Classifiers

Xavier Renard, Thibault Laugel, Marcin Detyniecki

A multitude of classifiers can be trained on the same data to achieve similar performances during test time, while having learned significantly different classification patterns. T…

cs.AI2021★ 1 cited

Towards the Right Kind of Fairness in AI

Boris Ruf, Marcin Detyniecki

Fairness is a concept of justice. Various definitions exist, some of them conflicting with each other. In the absence of an uniformly accepted notion of fairness, choosing the righ…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

On the Granularity of Explanations in Model Agnostic NLP Interpretability

Yves Rychener, Xavier Renard, Djamé Seddah +2

Current methods for Black-Box NLP interpretability, like LIME or SHAP, are based on altering the text to interpret by removing words and modeling the Black-Box response. In this pa…

cs.LG2019★ 8 cited

Fairness-Aware Neural Réyni Minimization for Continuous Features

Vincent Grari, Boris Ruf, Sylvain Lamprier +1

The past few years have seen a dramatic rise of academic and societal interest in fair machine learning. While plenty of fair algorithms have been proposed recently to tackle this…