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To mitigate gender bias in contextualized language models, different intrinsic mitigation strategies have been proposed, alongside many bias metrics. Considering that the end use of these language models is for downstream tasks like text…

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All AI models are susceptible to learning biases in data that they are trained on. For generative dialogue models, being trained on real human conversations containing unbalanced gender and race/ethnicity references can lead to models that…

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The use of large pretrained neural networks to create contextualized word embeddings has drastically improved performance on several natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These computationally expensive models have begun to be applied to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Benjamin Clavié , Kobi Gal

In this work, we present a framework to measure and mitigate intrinsic biases with respect to protected variables --such as gender-- in visual recognition tasks. We show that trained models significantly amplify the association of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Tianlu Wang , Jieyu Zhao , Mark Yatskar , Kai-Wei Chang , Vicente Ordonez

Bias in AI systems, especially those relying on natural language data, raises ethical and practical concerns. Underrepresentation of certain groups often leads to uneven performance across demographics. Traditional fairness methods, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sai Suhruth Reddy Karri , Yashwanth Sai Nallapuneni , Laxmi Narasimha Reddy Mallireddy , Gopichand G

Embeddings play a pivotal role in the efficacy of Large Language Models. They are the bedrock on which these models grasp contextual relationships and foster a more nuanced understanding of language and consequently perform remarkably on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Aishik Rakshit , Smriti Singh , Shuvam Keshari , Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha

Recently, researchers have made considerable improvements in dialogue systems with the progress of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4. These LLM-based chatbots encode the potential biases while retaining disparities that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Hsuan Su , Cheng-Chu Cheng , Hua Farn , Shachi H Kumar , Saurav Sahay , Shang-Tse Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Computer vision models learn to perform a task by capturing relevant statistics from training data. It has been shown that models learn spurious age, gender, and race correlations when trained for seemingly unrelated tasks like activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Zeyu Wang , Klint Qinami , Ioannis Christos Karakozis , Kyle Genova , Prem Nair , Kenji Hata , Olga Russakovsky

Existing NLP datasets contain various biases that models can easily exploit to achieve high performances on the corresponding evaluation sets. However, focusing on dataset-specific biases limits their ability to learn more generalizable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mingzhu Wu , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Andreas Rücklé , Iryna Gurevych

Many natural language inference (NLI) datasets contain biases that allow models to perform well by only using a biased subset of the input, without considering the remainder features. For instance, models are able to make a classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Dimion Asael , Zachary Ziegler , Yonatan Belinkov

While Large Language Models achieve state-of-the-art results across a wide range of NLP tasks, they remain prone to systematic biases. Among these, gender bias is particularly salient in MT, due to systematic differences across languages in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chiara Manna , Hosein Mohebbi , Afra Alishahi , Frédéric Blain , Eva Vanmassenhove

We analyze 6.7 million case law documents to determine the presence of gender bias within our judicial system. We find that current bias detectino methods in NLP are insufficient to determine gender bias in our case law database and propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Noa Baker Gillis

Language carries implicit human biases, functioning both as a reflection and a perpetuation of stereotypes that people carry with them. Recently, ML-based NLP methods such as word embeddings have been shown to learn such language biases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Xavier Ferrer-Aran , Tom van Nuenen , Natalia Criado , Jose M. Such

Over the last few years, Contextualized Pre-trained Neural Language Models, such as BERT, GPT, have shown significant gains in various NLP tasks. To enhance the robustness of existing pre-trained models, one way is adversarial examples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Wenqian Ye , Fei Xu , Yaojia Huang , Cassie Huang , Ji A

Gender bias in pretrained language models (PLMs) poses significant social and ethical challenges. Despite growing awareness, there is a lack of comprehensive investigation into how different models internally represent and propagate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mahdi Zakizadeh , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Discriminatory gender biases have been found in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for multiple languages. In Natural Language Inference (NLI), existing bias evaluation methods have focused on the prediction results of one specific label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Panatchakorn Anantaprayoon , Masahiro Kaneko , Naoaki Okazaki

Artificial neural networks typically struggle in generalizing to out-of-context examples. One reason for this limitation is caused by having datasets that incorporate only partial information regarding the potential correlational structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Valentin Barriere , Felipe del Rio , Andres Carvallo De Ferari , Carlos Aspillaga , Eugenio Herrera-Berg , Cristian Buc Calderon

Pretrained machine learning models are known to perpetuate and even amplify existing biases in data, which can result in unfair outcomes that ultimately impact user experience. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Laura Cabello , Emanuele Bugliarello , Stephanie Brandl , Desmond Elliott

We propose a novel word embedding pre-training approach that exploits writing errors in learners' scripts. We compare our method to previous models that tune the embeddings based on script scores and the discrimination between correct and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Youmna Farag , Marek Rei , Ted Briscoe

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful zero- and few-shot learners. However, when predicting over a set of candidate options, LLMs suffer from label biases, and existing calibration methods overlook biases arising from multi-token class…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Mario Sanz-Guerrero , Katharina von der Wense