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FairLint-DL: An IDE-Native Tool for Fairness Debugging of Deep Learning Software

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Existing fairness analysis tools predominantly operate as post-training evaluation frameworks, requiring practitioners to complete the full model development lifecycle before assessing bias. We present FairLint-DL, a Visual Studio Code extension that implements a shift-left approach to fairness testing by enabling pre-training, IDE-native bias detection directly on tabular datasets. FairLint-DL trains a configurable deep neural network as a proxy model and applies information-theoretic Quantitative Individual Discrimination (QID) metrics. Grounded in Shannon and min-entropy, QID quantifies the

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