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most citedRepresentation Bias in Data: A Survey on Identification and Resolution Techniques

121 citations · 125 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

GraphMind: From Operational Traces to Self-Evolving Workflow Automation

Yiwen Zhu, Joyce Cahoon, Anna Pavlenko +13

Complex operational workflows coordinating personnel, tools, and information are central to system operations, yet end-to-end automation remains challenging due to extensive human…

cs.AI2026

Blue Data Intelligence Layer: Streaming Data and Agents for Multi-source Multi-modal Data-Centric Applications

Moin Aminnaseri, Farima Fatahi Bayat, Nikita Bhutani +17

NL2SQL systems aim to address the growing need for natural language interaction with data. However, real-world information rarely maps to a single SQL query because (1) users expre…

cs.DB2026

From Textual Columns to Query Plans: A Unified Relational-Semantic Execution Framework for Hybrid Query Processing

Nima Shahbazi, Seiji Maekawa, Nikita Bhutani +1

Real-world table question answering often involves hybrid schemas in which some query-relevant information is explicit in relational columns, while other attributes, predicates, or…

cs.DB2026

Weighted Set Multi-Cover on Bounded Universe and Applications in Package Recommendation

Nima Shahbazi, Aryan Esmailpour, Stavros Sintos

The weighted set multi-cover problem is a fundamental generalization of set cover that arises in data-driven applications where one must select a small, low-cost subset from a larg…

cs.DS2025

Fair-Count-Min: Frequency Estimation under Equal Group-wise Approximation Factor

Nima Shahbazi, Stavros Sintos, Abolfazl Asudeh

Frequency estimation in streaming data often relies on sketches like Count-Min (CM) to provide approximate answers with sublinear space. However, CM sketches introduce additive err…

cs.CL2024

REQUAL-LM: Reliability and Equity through Aggregation in Large Language Models

Sana Ebrahimi, Nima Shahbazi, Abolfazl Asudeh

The extensive scope of large language models (LLMs) across various domains underscores the critical importance of responsibility in their application, beyond natural language proce…

cs.DB2024

FairEM360: A Suite for Responsible Entity Matching

Nima Shahbazi, Mahdi Erfanian, Abolfazl Asudeh +2

Entity matching is one the earliest tasks that occur in the big data pipeline and is alarmingly exposed to unintentional biases that affect the quality of data. Identifying and mit…

cs.DB2023★ 1 cited

Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching

Nima Shahbazi, Nikola Danevski, Fatemeh Nargesian +2

Entity matching (EM) is a challenging problem studied by different communities for over half a century. Algorithmic fairness has also become a timely topic to address machine bias…

cs.DS2023

A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap

Abolfazl Asudeh, Nima Shahbazi, Stavros Sintos

Hashmap is a fundamental data structure in computer science. There has been extensive research on constructing hashmaps that minimize the number of collisions leading to efficient…

cs.DB2023

Data Coverage for Detecting Representation Bias in Image Datasets: A Crowdsourcing Approach

Melika Mousavi, Nima Shahbazi, Abolfazl Asudeh

Existing machine learning models have proven to fail when it comes to their performance for minority groups, mainly due to biases in data. In particular, datasets, especially socia…

cs.CY2023★ 3 cited

PopSim: An Individual-level Population Simulator for Equitable Allocation of City Resources

Khanh Duy Nguyen, Nima Shahbazi, Abolfazl Asudeh

Historical systematic exclusionary tactics based on race have forced people of certain demographic groups to congregate in specific urban areas. Aside from the ethical aspects of s…

cs.DB2022

Reliability Evaluation of Individual Predictions: A Data-centric Approach

Nima Shahbazi, Abolfazl Asudeh

Machine learning models only provide probabilistic guarantees on the expected loss of random samples from the distribution represented by their training data. As a result, a model…

cs.DB2022★ 121 cited

Representation Bias in Data: A Survey on Identification and Resolution Techniques

Nima Shahbazi, Yin Lin, Abolfazl Asudeh +1

Data-driven algorithms are only as good as the data they work with, while data sets, especially social data, often fail to represent minorities adequately. Representation Bias in d…