Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning

Carlotta A. Berry · Brandeis Hill Marshall

Oct 2024 · McGraw Hill Professional

About this eBook

This practical guide shows, step by step, how to use machine learning to carry out actionable decisions that do not discriminate based on numerous human factors, including ethnicity and gender. The authors examine the many kinds of bias that occur in the field today and provide mitigation strategies that are ready to deploy across a wide range of technologies, applications, and industries.

Edited by engineering and computing experts, Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning includes contributions from recognized scholars and professionals working across different artificial intelligence sectors. Each chapter addresses a different topic and real-world case studies are featured throughout that highlight discriminatory machine learning practices and clearly show how they were reduced.

Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning addresses:

• Ethical and Societal Implications of Machine Learning
• Social Media and Health Information Dissemination
• Comparative Case Study of Fairness Toolkits
• Bias Mitigation in Hate Speech Detection
• Unintended Systematic Biases in Natural Language Processing
• Combating Bias in Large Language Models
• Recognizing Bias in Medical Machine Learning and AI Models
• Machine Learning Bias in Healthcare
• Achieving Systemic Equity in Socioecological Systems
• Community Engagement for Machine Learning

About the author

Carlotta A. Berry is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), where she is also Dr. Lawrence J. Giacoletto Endowed Chair. She is the founder and co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity Program (ROSE-BUD) and advisor for the National Society of Black Engineers.

Brandeis Hill Marshall is founder and CEO of DataedX Group, a data ethics learning and development agency. She is a thought leader in broadening participating in data science and puts inclusivity and equity at the center of her work. She obtained her doctorate in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.