Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition: Weighted Attribute Fairness to Model Demographic Contributions to Social Bias

arXiv:2604.19763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems have growing applications in sensitive domains such as mental health and education, where biased predictions can cause harm. Traditional fairness metrics, such as Equalised Odds and Demographic Parity, often overlook the joint dependency between demographic attributes and model predictions. We propose a fairness modelling approach for SER that explicitly captures allocative bias by learning the joint relat