Emmanouil Panagiotou

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3since 2021 · last 2026
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 MIMOSA: A Tool for Fairness Exploration Through Explanations
Vasiliki Papanikou, Danae Pla Karidi, Evaggelia Pitoura, Emmanouil Panagiotou, Eirini Ntoutsi
EDBT4
2025 MMM-fair: An Interactive Toolkit for Exploring and Operationalizing Multi-Fairness Trade-offs
abstract
Fairness-aware classification requires balancing performance and fairness, often intensified by intersectional biases. Conflicting fairness definitions further complicate the task, making it difficult to identify universally fair solutions. Despite growing regulatory and societal demands for equitable AI, popular toolkits offer limited support for exploring multi-dimensional fairness and related trade-offs. To address this, we present mmm-fair, an open-source toolkit leveraging boosting-based ensemble approaches that dynamically optimizes model weights to jointly minimize classification errors and diverse fairness violations, enabling flexible multi-objective optimization. The system empowers users to deploy models that align with their context-specific needs while reliably uncovering intersectional biases often missed by state-of-the-art methods. In a nutshell, mmm-fair uniquely combines in-depth multi-attribute fairness, multi-objective optimization, a no-code, chat-based interface, LLM-powered explanations, interactive Pareto exploration for model selection, custom fairness constraint definition, and deployment-ready models in a single open-source toolkit, a combination rarely found in existing fairness tools. Demo walkthrough available at: https://youtu.be/_rcpjlXFqkw.
Arjun Roy 0001, Emmanouil Panagiotou, Eirini Ntoutsi
CIKM3
2025 TabFairGDT: A Fast Fair Tabular Data Generator Using Autoregressive Decision Trees
abstract
Ensuring fairness in machine learning remains a significant challenge, as models often inherit biases from their training data. Generative models have recently emerged as a promising approach to mitigate bias at the data level while preserving utility. However, many rely on deep architectures, despite evidence that simpler models can be highly effective for tabular data. In this work, we introduce TabFairGDT, a novel method for generating fair synthetic tabular data using autoregressive decision trees. To enforce fairness, we propose a soft leaf resampling technique that adjusts decision tree outputs to reduce bias while preserving predictive performance. Our approach is non-parametric, effectively capturing complex relationships between mixed feature types, without relying on assumptions about the underlying data distributions. We evaluate TabFairGDT on benchmark fairness datasets and demonstrate that it outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) deep generative models, achieving better fairness-utility trade-off for downstream tasks, as well as higher synthetic data quality. Moreover, our method is lightweight, highly efficient, and CPU-compatible, requiring no data preprocessing. Remarkably, TabFairGDT achieves a 72% average speedup over the fastest SOTA baseline across various dataset sizes, and can generate fair synthetic data for medium-sized datasets (10 features, 10K samples) in just one second on a standard CPU, making it an ideal solution for realworld fairness-sensitive applications.
Emmanouil Panagiotou, Benoît Ronval, Arjun Roy 0001, Ludwig Bothmann, Bernd Bischl, Siegfried Nijssen, Eirini Ntoutsi
ICDM1