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A reproduction study finds that FairCLIP's Sinkhorn-distance fairness regularizer reduces group distance but does not improve CLIP's fairness or accuracy in zero-shot glaucoma classification.

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FairCLIP's claimed fairness and performance gains over CLIP do not reproduce on two datasets, and its official implementation diverges from the paper's own formulation.

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load-bearing objection A careful, honest reproduction study that documents real implementation divergences in FairCLIP; the negative result is consistent but underpowered, so treat it as a caution, not a refutation. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2509.06535 v1 pith:FIEWYAWA submitted 2025-09-08 cs.CV cs.AIcs.LG

On the Reproducibility of "FairCLIP: Harnessing Fairness in Vision-Language Learning''

classification cs.CV cs.AIcs.LG
keywords FairCLIPCLIPgroup fairnessSinkhorn distancereproducibilityzero-shot glaucoma classificationHarvard-FairVLMedFairFace
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper tries to establish whether FairCLIP, a method that adds an optimal-transport regularizer to CLIP fine-tuning to reduce group fairness gaps, delivers the fairness and performance gains its authors claimed. Reproducing the original setup on the Harvard-FairVLMed dataset and extending it to FairFace, the authors confirm that CLIP is biased toward certain demographic groups in zero-shot glaucoma classification. They find that FairCLIP's regularization does shrink Sinkhorn distances between population and group similarity-score distributions, but this does not translate into better demographic parity, equalized odds, or AUC; both the official implementation and an implementation aligned with the paper's description fail to beat plain fine-tuned CLIP. The paper also documents that the official code differs from the published model in how similarities are computed and selects models on the test set rather than the validation set, and it introduces FairCLIP+ for multiple sensitive attributes, which shows no significant gains. If the reproduction is faithful, practitioners should not expect FairCLIP fine-tuning to improve fairness or accuracy in these settings.

Core claim

The central claim under test is that fine-tuning CLIP with the FairCLIP objective improves both performance and fairness of zero-shot glaucoma classification. On both ViT-B/16 and ViT-L/14, the reproduced FairCLIP models generally underperform CLIP-FT on AUC and fairness metrics, often with standard deviations larger than the differences. The official implementation's deviations—normalizing group similarity scores, using diag(I T^T T I^T) instead of diag(I T^T), and selecting the best model on the test set—are identified and corrected in A-FairCLIP, but the aligned models also fail to show consistent improvements. A new multi-attribute variant, FairCLIP+, slightly improves on FairCLIP in som

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the FairCLIP regularizer L_Fair^A = sum_alpha d(D_batch, D_batch^a), where d is the Sinkhorn distance (an entropic optimal-transport cost) between the batch distribution of image-text similarity scores and the distribution for sensitive group alpha. The paper uses this regularizer to ask whether pulling subgroup similarity-score distributions toward the population distribution changes fairness metrics (DPD, DEOdds, ES-AUC) and accuracy (AUC). The reproduction also leans on the distinction between the published formula and the official implementation—normalized group scores, a different similarity matrix, and test-set model selection—with A-FairCLIP as the aligned v

Load-bearing premise

The reproduction protocol—validation-based model selection, aligned similarity scoring, 500-epoch linear probes, and hyperparameters taken from the original authors or tuned on gender alone—is a faithful test of FairCLIP's claimed gains; if the original gains depended on test-set selection or the unaligned scoring, the negative result indicts the original pipeline rather than the method.

What would settle it

Run the original FairCLIP code unchanged with model selection on the test set and 1000-epoch linear probes on Harvard-FairVLMed. If FairCLIP then matches or beats CLIP-FT on AUC and DPD as in the original paper, the negative result is caused by the protocol corrections rather than by the method; if it still fails, the method itself does not transfer.

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If this is right

  • FairCLIP and FairCLIP+ do not reliably improve AUC, DPD, DEOdds, or ES-AUC over plain fine-tuned CLIP on Harvard-FairVLMed zero-shot glaucoma classification.
  • Minimizing Sinkhorn distances between group and population similarity-score distributions is not sufficient for fairness: distances drop while fairness metrics do not.
  • Fine-tuning CLIP on one sensitive attribute does not consistently give the best fairness on that attribute, and can affect other attributes unpredictably.
  • On FairFace, the multi-attribute FairCLIP+ objective yields no clear performance improvement and may slightly hurt already-weak age groups.
  • The original reported gains may be tied to the official pipeline's test-set model selection and unaligned similarity computation, so those parameters should not be transferred to other settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the original authors' test-set selection is what produced their best scores, then the correct interpretation is that the original evaluation protocol, not the FairCLIP method itself, drove the reported gains; rerunning with held-out selection would settle this.
  • A stricter test of direction: measure per-group calibration or equalized odds on the exact similarity scores, not just threshold metrics, to see whether distribution matching changes decision boundaries even when AUC does not.
  • The decoupling of Sinkhorn distance from group fairness may generalize: any regularizer that penalizes only first-order score-distribution overlap could leave rank-ordering biases intact, which matters for other optimal-transport fairness methods.
  • On heavily imbalanced clinical attributes (ethnicity, language), sample sizes per minority group are tiny, so group-distance estimates are noisy; future reproductions should report uncertainty and consider stratified sampling.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper reports a reproducibility study of FairCLIP (Luo et al., 2024), a method that fine-tunes CLIP with a Sinkhorn-distance regularizer to improve group fairness in zero-shot glaucoma classification. The authors document that the official FairCLIP implementation deviates from the model description in three ways: group similarity scores are normalized by their sum, the similarity matrix uses IT⊤T I⊤ rather than diag(IT⊤), and model selection is performed on the test set rather than the validation set. They introduce an aligned implementation (A-FairCLIP) and a multi-attribute extension (FairCLIP+), and evaluate on Harvard-FairVLMed (ViT-B/16 and ViT-L/14) and FairFace (RS50). Across these settings, they find that FairCLIP, A-FairCLIP, and FairCLIP+ generally do not improve AUC or fairness metrics over fine-tuned CLIP, even though the regularization objective reduces Sinkhorn distances. The paper concludes that Claim 2 of the original paper—that FairCLIP improves both performance and fairness—is not supported by their experiments, while Claim 1 (CLIP exhibits demographic biases) receives weak support.

Significance. If the negative result is robust, this would be an important caution for practitioners and would cast doubt on the original CVPR 2024 results. The paper's concrete documentation of the implementation–description mismatch is a genuine contribution, as is the distance-reduction-without-fairness finding. The authors also provide code and detailed computational cost accounting, which strengthens the reproducibility value. However, the central claim is an absence claim and is supported only by three seeds per condition with large standard deviations; many key comparisons are within one standard deviation. As reported, the evidence is too underpowered to definitively overturn the original claims, though it is a legitimate and useful negative result.

major comments (4)
  1. [3.3, 4.1.2, 5.1] The central negative claim is underpowered. All experiments use three seeds (Section 3.3), and Section 5.1 itself acknowledges that standard deviations are relatively high and could be stabilized by more runs. In Table 2, A-FairCLIPgender DPD is 1.57±2.13 vs CLIP-FT 2.97±3.08, and AUC is 70.00±1.94 vs 70.14±1.63; these differences are far smaller than the noise. Table 6 shows AUC differences of 0.1–1 point with standard deviations of 0.2–5. No confidence intervals, effect sizes, or power analysis is provided. Since “do not support Claim 2” is an absence claim, the current design cannot distinguish a true absence of improvement from a failure to detect a real gain.
  2. [3.4, Appendix B] Several protocol deviations make the comparison not fully apples-to-apples with the original study. Linear probes are trained for 500 instead of 1000 epochs; FairFace fine-tuning uses a random 11,000-sample subset, custom prompts, and the small RS50 architecture; and A-FairCLIP hyperparameters are tuned on the gender attribute only and then applied to all attributes. The inversion in Table 10 (FairCLIPgender DPD 5.69±1.23 vs the original 0.84±0.25) could be due to these choices rather than to the method itself. The authors should justify each deviation or provide a sensitivity analysis showing it does not drive the negative conclusion.
  3. [3.3, 5.1] Because the original implementation selected the best model on the test set, the paper’s corrected validation-based protocol is a modified version of FairCLIP. The conclusion that the experimental results do not support Claim 2 is therefore about the corrected protocol, not about the original published pipeline as actually implemented. The paper notes this in Section 5.1, but the abstract and Section 5.1 should be more explicit that the official-code reproduction also changed model selection; otherwise readers may over-interpret the negative result as directly refuting the original paper.
  4. [4.2.2, Tables 4-5] The claim that minimizing Sinkhorn distance does not imply improved fairness rests on a small number of runs and a single distance metric. Tables 4 and 5 show large reductions in distance, but the accompanying fairness metrics have high variability. A formal test of association between distance reduction and fairness improvement, or at least confidence intervals on the distances, would be needed to support the conclusion that the regularizer’s effect is purely on the Sinkhorn distance without downstream benefit.
minor comments (5)
  1. [3.1, Eq. (2)] Equation (2) writes d(DB,DB) but from the surrounding text and Equation (1) it should presumably be d(DB,DBa). Please correct the typo.
  2. [Appendix E, Table 14] In the Male row of the Gaussian MMD table (Table 13/14), the entry “3.55·104” appears to be a typo for “3.55·10−4”; as printed it is inconsistent with the neighboring values.
  3. [Appendix B] The sentence “since there were no significant differences between those parameters and the parameters found with gender” is self-referential; presumably one of the two mentions of ‘gender’ should be ‘ethnicity’ or another attribute.
  4. [3.4.2] Minor typo: “constrastive” should be “contrastive”.
  5. [3.4.3] Grammar: “The evaluations was done” should be “The evaluations were done”.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper is an empirical reproduction study whose conclusions are measurements, not derivations from fitted values or self-citations.

full rationale

The paper is an empirical reproduction study, not a derivation. The main chain is: §3 describes the reproduction protocol, including the official implementation and an 'aligned' implementation A-FairCLIP; §4 reports measurements on held-out test splits of Harvard-FairVLMed and on FairFace; §5 concludes that Claim 2 is not supported. No equation in the paper defines a claimed prediction in terms of the quantity being predicted. The only place resembling a fitted-input concern is Appendix B, where A-FairCLIP hyperparameters are selected on the validation set: 'The objective function evaluated the performance of the model on the validation set, measured by the AUC' and 'All parameters for the aligned models used the parameters found with the attribute gender.' This is ordinary model selection, and the headline negative result is based on the test set (Tables 2, 6), which was not used for that selection; moreover §4.2.1 explicitly attributes A-FairCLIP's gender improvement to this tuning ('improved performance on the attribute "gender", which can be explained by the hyperparameter optimization being performed on the attribute gender'), so the paper does not rename the fit as a prediction. The FairFace experiments reuse the FairVLMed hyperparameters (§3.4.3), which makes them a transfer test rather than a circular one. The manuscript flags its own limitations: §3.4 states 'Due to resource constraints we used 500 epochs only for the linear probes, while Luo et al. (2024) use 1000 epochs'; §5.1 concedes 'standard deviations are relatively high' and notes the original code's test-set selection 'may help explain why the parameters reported by Luo et al. (2024) outperformed the best parameters during our hyperparameter optimization phase.' These weaken the negative conclusion but do not make it reduce to its inputs. Appendix D compares with the original authors' external numbers; no load-bearing claim rests on a self-citation by the current authors. The three-seed/no-power-analysis concern is a statistical robustness issue, not circularity: differences in Table 2 are often within one standard deviation, so 'not found to improve' may be underpowered, but absence of evidence is not a definitional reduction. Score 0.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

6 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central negative claim rests on hyperparameters taken from the original paper or tuned on the validation split (gender attribute), on the chosen baselines (CLIP-FT), on the operationalization of fairness via DPD, DEOdds and ES-AUC, and on two dataset-specific task setups. A-FairCLIP and FairCLIP+ are modified loss objectives, not newly postulated entities.

free parameters (6)
  • FairCLIP+ regularization rate lambda = 1e-5
    Set to 1e-5 rather than the 1e-7 used by Luo et al. (2024), 'as a result of hyperparameter optimization' (Section 3.4).
  • FairCLIP+ attribute weights w_A = w_race = 1/2, w_gender = 1/2, others = 0
    Hand-chosen based on dataset imbalance (Appendix A.1): 'the weights of the attributes race and gender were set to 1/2, and the weights of the remaining attributes were set to 0' (Section 3.4).
  • A-FairCLIP learning rate = 1.49e-5
    Found by Optuna tuning on the gender attribute (Appendix B), then reused for all attributes.
  • A-FairCLIP fairness rate lambda = 0.07
    Found by Optuna tuning on the gender attribute (Appendix B).
  • Linear probe training epochs = 500 (versus 1000 in original)
    Reduced 'due to resource constraints' (Section 3.4); affects the Claim 1 linear-probing comparison.
  • FairFace fine-tuning subset size = 11,000 samples
    Chosen 'to account for memory constraints in used hardware' (Section 3.4.3).
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption The Sinkhorn distance computed by Geomloss on batch similarity scores faithfully estimates the group-versus-population distribution discrepancy.
    The distance analysis (Section 4.2.2, Tables 4 and 5) is the main mechanistic evidence that the regularizer 'works'; the paper treats measured distances as meaningful.
  • domain assumption Zero-shot glaucoma classification by pairing SLO fundus images with the texts 'A photo of glaucoma' and 'A photo of non-glaucoma' is a valid operationalization of the task.
    Section 3.4.2; inherited from the original protocol, and all comparisons depend on it.
  • domain assumption The custom FairFace prompts ('Image of a person that is [AGE] years old, their race is: [RACE] They are [GENDER]') provide a valid gender-prediction task for generalizability testing.
    Section 3.4.3; this is an author-invented proxy, so the negative FairFace result applies only to this setup.
  • domain assumption Three repeated runs with reported standard deviations are sufficient to compare methods whose score differences are often smaller than the standard deviations.
    Section 5.1 acknowledges 'standard deviation of the scores was relatively high compared to the difference in scores'; no power analysis is provided.
  • domain assumption GPT-4 summarization of clinical notes does not systematically confound the fairness comparisons.
    Section 3.2; the summarized notes are treated as a fixed data input inherited from the original dataset pipeline.

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We investigated the reproducibility of FairCLIP, proposed by Luo et al. (2024), for improving the group fairness of CLIP (Radford et al., 2021) by minimizing image-text similarity score disparities across sensitive groups using the Sinkhorn distance. The experimental setup of Luo et al. (2024) was reproduced to primarily investigate the research findings for FairCLIP. The model description by Luo et al. (2024) was found to differ from the original implementation. Therefore, a new implementation, A-FairCLIP, is introduced to examine specific design choices. Furthermore, FairCLIP+ is proposed to extend the FairCLIP objective to include multiple attributes. Additionally, the impact of the distance minimization on FairCLIP's fairness and performance was explored. In alignment with the original authors, CLIP was found to be biased towards certain demographics when applied to zero-shot glaucoma classification using medical scans and clinical notes from the Harvard-FairVLMed dataset. However, the experimental results on two datasets do not support their claim that FairCLIP improves the performance and fairness of CLIP. Although the regularization objective reduces Sinkhorn distances, both the official implementation and the aligned implementation, A-FairCLIP, were not found to improve performance nor fairness in zero-shot glaucoma classification.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.06535 by Angela Madelon Bernardy, Hua Chang Bakker, Stan Deutekom, Stan Fris.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: FairCLIP pipeline for fine-tuning on the attribute race (Luo et al., 2024, Figure 2). A sample is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Distribution of the sensitive attributes in the Harvard-FairVLMed data set across train, validation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Distribution of the collapsed sensitive attributes in the Harvard-FairVLMed data set. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Distribution of the collapsed sensitive attributes in the FairFace data set. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: ES-AUC scores on FairCLIPrace for different regularization rates λ on the validation set and the ViT-B/16 architecture using the original implementation presented by Luo et al. (2024). C Additional reproducibility results for ViT-L/14 on zero-shot classification task Zero-shot results are included in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png] view at source ↗

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