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Wed 30 Apr 2025 17:00 - 17:15 at 210 - SE for AI with Security

Algorithmic fairness of machine learning (ML) models has raised significant concern in the recent years. Many testing, verification, and bias mitigation techniques have been proposed to identify and reduce fairness issues in ML models. The existing methods are model-centric and designed to detect fairness issues under static settings. However, many ML-enabled systems operate in a dynamic environment where the predictive decisions made by the system impact the environment, which in turn affects future decision-making. Such a self-reinforcing feedback loop can cause fairness violations in the long term, even if the immediate outcomes are fair. In this paper, we propose a simulation-based framework called FairSense to detect and analyze long-term unfairness in ML-enabled systems. In particular, the framework targets systems with an ML model that is trained over tabular data using supervised learning. Given a fairness requirement, FairSense performs Monte-Carlo simulation to enumerate evolution traces for each system configuration. Then, FairSense performs sensitivity analysis on the space of system parameters to understand the impact of configuration decisions on long-term fairness of the system. We demonstrate FairSense’s potential utility through three real-world case studies: Loan lending, opioids risk scoring, and predictive policing.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 30 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
SE for AI with SecurityResearch Track at 210
16:00
15m
Talk
Understanding the Effectiveness of Coverage Criteria for Large Language Models: A Special Angle from Jailbreak Attacks
Research Track
shide zhou Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Li Tianlin NTU, Kailong Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yihao Huang NTU, Ling Shi Nanyang Technological University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
16:15
15m
Talk
Diversity Drives Fairness: Ensemble of Higher Order Mutants for Intersectional Fairness of Machine Learning Software
Research Track
Zhenpeng Chen Nanyang Technological University, Xinyue Li Peking University, Jie M. Zhang King's College London, Federica Sarro University College London, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Talk
HIFI: Explaining and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias through the Lens of Game-Theoretic Interactions
Research Track
Lingfeng Zhang East China Normal University, Zhaohui Wang Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Yueling Zhang East China Normal University, Min Zhang East China Normal University, Jiangtao Wang Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University
16:45
15m
Talk
Towards More Trustworthy Deep Code Models by Enabling Out-of-Distribution Detection
Research Track
Yanfu Yan William & Mary, Viet Duong William & Mary, Huajie Shao College of William & Mary, Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary
17:00
15m
Talk
FairSense: Long-Term Fairness Analysis of ML-Enabled Systems
Research Track
Yining She Carnegie Mellon University, Sumon Biswas Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Eunsuk Kang Carnegie Mellon University
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