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20202026
most citedMachine learning fairness notions: Bridging the gap with real-world applications

56 citations · 111 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CR2026

On the Privacy of LLMs: An Ablation Study

Karima Makhlouf, Lamiaa Basyoni, Syed Khaderi +4

Large language models (LLMs) face diverse privacy threats, yet existing studies typically evaluate individual attacks in isolation, offering limited guidance on which system factor…

cs.LG2024

A Systematic and Formal Study of the Impact of Local Differential Privacy on Fairness: Preliminary Results

Karima Makhlouf, Tamara Stefanovic, Heber H. Arcolezi +1

Machine learning (ML) algorithms rely primarily on the availability of training data, and, depending on the domain, these data may include sensitive information about the data prov…

cs.LG2023

On the Impact of Multi-dimensional Local Differential Privacy on Fairness

Karima Makhlouf, Heber H. Arcolezi, Sami Zhioua +2

Automated decision systems are increasingly used to make consequential decisions in people's lives. Due to the sensitivity of the manipulated data as well as the resulting decision…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

(Local) Differential Privacy has NO Disparate Impact on Fairness

Héber H. Arcolezi, Karima Makhlouf, Catuscia Palamidessi

In recent years, Local Differential Privacy (LDP), a robust privacy-preserving methodology, has gained widespread adoption in real-world applications. With LDP, users can perturb t…

cs.CY2022

Survey on Fairness Notions and Related Tensions

Guilherme Alves, Fabien Bernier, Miguel Couceiro +3

Automated decision systems are increasingly used to take consequential decisions in problems such as job hiring and loan granting with the hope of replacing subjective human decisi…

cs.AI2022★ 5 cited

Causal Discovery for Fairness

Rūta Binkytė-Sadauskienė, Karima Makhlouf, Carlos Pinzón +2

It is crucial to consider the social and ethical consequences of AI and ML based decisions for the safe and acceptable use of these emerging technologies. Fairness, in particular,…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Identifiability of Causal-based Fairness Notions: A State of the Art

Karima Makhlouf, Sami Zhioua, Catuscia Palamidessi

Machine learning algorithms can produce biased outcome/prediction, typically, against minorities and under-represented sub-populations. Therefore, fairness is emerging as an import…

cs.LG2020★ 39 cited

Survey on Causal-based Machine Learning Fairness Notions

Karima Makhlouf, Sami Zhioua, Catuscia Palamidessi

Addressing the problem of fairness is crucial to safely use machine learning algorithms to support decisions with a critical impact on people's lives such as job hiring, child malt…

cs.LG2020★ 56 cited

Machine learning fairness notions: Bridging the gap with real-world applications

Karima Makhlouf, Sami Zhioua, Catuscia Palamidessi

Fairness emerged as an important requirement to guarantee that Machine Learning (ML) predictive systems do not discriminate against specific individuals or entire sub-populations,…