classaware
Classaware is an adjective used in information technology and social sciences to describe systems, processes, or datasets that retain explicit awareness of a set of classes or categories during processing. The term is generic and can refer to class labels in supervised learning, predefined categories in data, or social or user group attributes used to guide analysis. It is not tied to a single formal standard and its meaning varies by context.
In machine learning and data processing, class-aware approaches incorporate class information into training, inference, or evaluation.
Critics warn that class-aware methods can entrench social biases if class definitions reflect stereotypes, or that