Vasia Papanikou to Present the MIMOSA Fairness Exploration Tool at EDBT/ICDT 2026 Joint Conference

Vasia Papanikou, a PhD student at the University of Ioannina and an Academic fellow at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, will be demonstrating "MIMOSA: A Tool for Fairness Exploration Through Explanations" at the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT/ICDT 2026), taking place from March 24–27, 2026, at Tampere, Finland.

The MIMOSA tool is the joint work of Vasia Papanikou, PhD student and Academic fellow at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, Danae Pla Karidi, Ph.D, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of West Attica and Postdoctoral researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, Evaggelia Pitoura, Professor at the University of Ioannina and Lead Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, Manolis Panagiotou, a PhD student at Freie Universitat Berlin, and Eirini Ntoutsi, Full Professor at Bundeswehr University Munich and Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) group.

Abstract of the MIMOSA demo tool: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in areas that impact human lives, concerns about fairness and transparency have grown, especially for protected groups. To better understand such concerns, explainability techniques can be leveraged not only for model interpretation but also to assess potential biases. The MIMOSA tool utilizes both individual and group explanation methods as bias detectors. It allows users to compare group fairness metrics with explanation findings, identify which features contribute to biased outcomes, visualize explanations through multiple perspectives and apply fairness interventions while tracking how feature contributions change. The tool is designed to be accessible to a wide audience of users, including sociologists, domain experts and machine learning practitioners.

Demonstration paper can be found here.
Try the fairness exploration tool MIMOSA here.