A Resource-Aware Taxonomy of AI Bias Mitigation Techniques
A Resource-Aware Taxonomy of AI Bias Mitigation Techniques
Daniela Loreti, Roberta Calegari, Michela Milano
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Survey Track. Pages 7949-7957.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/882
The literature on AI fairness has grown rapidly, proposing a large number of bias mitigation techniques that are commonly organized into pre-, in-, and post-processing methods. This pipeline-centric view offers an operational, lifecycle-based perspective on where mitigation can be applied. In deployment settings, however, practitioners also face an additional question: whether a mitigation family is applicable given the resources and access rights available in a concrete system.
In this survey, we use resources broadly to denote data access/control, training capability, and deployment-time interface/decision control.
Accordingly, we introduce a resource-aware taxonomy that complements existing taxonomies by classifying AI bias mitigation methods according to the conditions that make them practically implementable. We use this taxonomy to structure and reinterpret existing literature on the topic, highlighting which mitigation families remain feasible under resource constraints.
Keywords:
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairnes: Bias
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairnes: Ethical, legal and societal issues
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairnes: Fairness and diversity
AI Ethics, Trust, Fairnes: Trustworthy AI
