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most citedExplanations as Bias Detectors: A Critical Study of Local Post-hoc XAI Methods for Fairness Exploration

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cs.LG2026

UniFair: A unified fair clustering approach based on separation and compactness

Antonia Karra, Vasiliki Papanikou, Georgios Vardakas +2

Clustering is increasingly used to support high-impact decisions, yet standard objectives such as k-means can produce clusterings that treat demographic groups unequally. Existing…

cs.LG2026

TACENR: Task-Agnostic Contrastive Explanations for Node Representations

Vasiliki Papanikou, Evaggelia Pitoura

Graph representation learning has achieved notable success in encoding graph-structured data into latent vector spaces, enabling a wide range of downstream tasks. However, these no…

cs.AI20251 cited

Explanations as Bias Detectors: A Critical Study of Local Post-hoc XAI Methods for Fairness Exploration

Vasiliki Papanikou, Danae Pla Karidi, Evaggelia Pitoura +2

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in areas that significantly impact human lives, concerns about fairness and transparency have grown, especially regarding their…

cs.SI2024

Health Misinformation in Social Networks: A Survey of IT Approaches

Vasiliki Papanikou, Panagiotis Papadakos, Theodora Karamanidou +3

In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on the pervasive issue of medical misinformation in social networks from the perspective of information technology. The survey aims…

cs.LG2024

FACEGroup: Feasible and Actionable Counterfactual Explanations for Group Fairness

Christos Fragkathoulas, Vasiliki Papanikou, Evaggelia Pitoura +1

Counterfactual explanations assess unfairness by revealing how inputs must change to achieve a desired outcome. This paper introduces the first graph-based framework for generating…

cs.AI2024

On Explaining Unfairness: An Overview

Christos Fragkathoulas, Vasiliki Papanikou, Danae Pla Karidi +1

Algorithmic fairness and explainability are foundational elements for achieving responsible AI. In this paper, we focus on their interplay, a research area that is recently receivi…