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Volume 350: European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, 2-4 September 2026, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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Editors: Tijl De Bie, MaryBeth Defrance, Toon Calders, Dennis Nguyen

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Contents:

Preface

Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness (ECAF’26)

Tijl De Bie, MaryBeth Defrance, Toon Calders, Dennis Nguyen; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:1-7

Full Papers

FairCert: Certifiable Error Rate Fairness for ML and LLM Decision Systems

Md Fahim Sikder; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:8-23

Toward a Geometric Perspective on Trustworthy AI: Diagnostic Signatures for High-Stakes NLU

Eduardo Sanchez-Karhunen, Jose F Quesada, Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:24-39

Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Black-Box Fairness Audits

Martín Anaya-Quesada, Marios Kountouris; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:51-66

Fairness in the Flow: An Overview and Drift-Aware Evaluation of Fair Classifiers for Drifting Data Streams

Kathrin Lammers, MaryBeth Defrance, Barbara Hammer, Valerie Vaquet; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:84-100

Data-Centric Algorithmic Fairness: A Systematic Review of Data-Level Interventions for Algorithmic Fairness

Domenique Zipperling, Luca Deck, Leo Jessat, Niklas Kühl; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:113-135

CausalCERTIFAI: A Causality-Aware Framework for Counterfactual Explanations

Cankut Yaman, Süreyya Akyüz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:136-147

Beyond the Black Box: Claim-Level Interpretability for Accountable Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Farjana Yesmin, Nusrat Shirmin; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:165-177

Fairness for Dating Apps: Mitigating Discrimination by Preventing Popularity Bias

Tim De Jonge, Djoerd Hiemstra; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:201-216

Assessing the Impact of Debiasing in Classification

Alessio Famiani, Ruggero G. Pensa; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:223-239

Sequential Fairness Auditing with Limited Output Access

Ioannis Pitsiorlas, Martha-Vasiliki Sourla, Marios Kountouris; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:254-270

Sequential Cohort Selection under Uncertainty

Hortence Phalonne Yiepnou Nana, Christos Dimitrakakis; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:271-287

CLEAR-NL: Language Complexity Feedback for Accessible Skills Languages

Eliza Hobo, Tom Brand, Maaike H.T. De Boer, Marieke van den Tooren; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:288-305

It Takes So Little to Change So Much: Investigating the Robustness of a Danish Voting Advice Algorithm

Giovanni Astante, Roberta Sinatra, Vedran Sekara; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:318-334

WIDER-FAIR: An Annotated Version of the WIDER-FACE Dataset for Fairness Evaluation

Maxime Moussi, Benoît Ronval, Siegfried Nijssen, Félicien Schiltz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:335-348

Counterfactual Methods for Detecting Unfairness in Anti-Money Laundering Algorithms

Lea Multerer, Michele Inchingolo, David Kletz, Adrian Cosma, Alessandro Antonucci, Martina Gogova; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:349-364

Probing Protected Attributes within General-Purpose LLMs for Hiring

Jan Grenzebach, Thea Radüntz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:372-385

Unequal Uncertainty: Rethinking Algorithmic Interventions for Mitigating Discrimination from AI

Holli Sargeant, Mackenzie Jorgensen, Arina Shah, Sam Goring, Adrian Weller, Umang Bhatt; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:386-408

Fairness interventions and case shift

Indre Zliobaite; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:409-427

Resource-constrained Fairness

Sofie Goethals, Eoin D. Delaney, Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:435-452

Extended Abstracts

From Relevance to Reward: A Pipeline View of Addictive Design in Recommender Systems under the DSA

Ludovico Boratto, Silvia De Conca, Matteo Fabbri, Alessandro Fabris; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:40-44

Counterfactual Latent Representations: A Neurosymbolic Approach

Leonhard Kestel, Christoph Kern; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:45-50

Understanding Fairness in AI Business Applications: A Case Study on AI Job Interviewing Platforms

Lou Therese Brandner, Lisa Koeritz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:67-73

Techno-judges on the spot: explorations of the impact of AI advancements in Brazil’s Justice System

Mateus Henrique Amorim Moura Rocha; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:74-76

Bridging Formal and Perceived Fairness: Development of an Interdisciplinary Framework in Algorithmic Decision-Making

Maike Lindermayr, Mattia Cerrato, Luisa Hübner, Johannes Maria Kraus; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:77-83

Fairness Without Reflection? An Empirical Analysis of AI Ethics Tools in the Age of GenAI

Lisa Koeritz, Sonja Pfisterer, Simon David Hirsbrunner; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:101-106

Who Gets the Better Story? An Exploration of Fairness in Explainable AI Narratives for Credit Scoring

Wannes Van den Bulck, Sofie Goethals, David Martens; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:107-112

From Algorithmic Fairness to Evidentiary Reliability: Judicial Analytics under Article 6 ECHR

Arjun Bhubaneshwar Banerjee; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:148-151

Recommend Me First: How the Relative Ordering of Recommendations Can Lead to Unfair Outcomes for Content Creators

Salima Jaoua, Nicolò Pagan, Ancsa Hannak, Stefania Ionescu; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:152-158

FairMind: A Tool for Automatic Causal Fairness Analysis with LLM-Generated Reports

Alessia Berarducci, Eric Rossetto, Alessandro Antonucci, Marco Zaffalon; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:159-164

Towards Formalizing the Bias-Personalization Trade-off in Large Language Models

Sofie Goethals, Manon Reusens; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:178-183

Association-Based Fairness Measures under Class and Group Skew

Dmytro Romaniv, Dariusz Brzezinski; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:184-189

When Underrepresentation Matters: A Framework for Anticipating Fairness Risks

Diletta Longhin, Marina Ceccon, Magali Legast, Alessandro Fabris, Toon Calders, Gian Antonio Susto; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:190-195

The Fairness-Performance Pareto Frontier: How to Design Less Discriminatory Algorithms?

Mieke Wilms, Christoph Heitz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:196-200

When LLMs Evaluate LLMs in Hiring: A Multi-Model Auditing Framework for Generative Preference Bias in AI-Assisted Recruitment

Michael Andreas Ebling, Stefania Ionescu, Nicolò Pagan; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:217-222

Rethinking journalism in the era of algorithms: Fairness, ethics, and the European regulatory framework

Theodora Saridou; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:240-246

Against Peripheral Ethics Committees: A Critique of the Strategic De-coupling of Ethics

Jesús Salgado-Criado; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:247-253

When Is Content “AI-Generated Enough”? Labelling Synthetic Media under the Digital Services Act and the AI Act

Marie-Therese Sekwenz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:306-312

AI Tools in Algorithmic Management: Early Insights from Germany and Challenges for a fair and co-determined Design

Martin Brenzke, Thea Radüntz; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:313-317

Governance-Driven Development: Embedding Regulatory Requirements in AI Development Workflows

Simon Jarvers, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:365-371

Oracle Externality in Prediction Markets Creates Adversarial Incentives Against Public Infrastructure

Robin Young, Che-Yuan Chang; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:428-434

Towards EU AI Act Compliance: Self-Certification and Fairness Alignment for Facial Emotion Recognition

Gregor Autischer, Kerstin Waxnegger, Dominik Kowald; Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Algorithmic Fairness, PMLR 350:453-459

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