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Overconfidence has been shown to impair generalization and calibration of a neural network. Previous studies remedy this issue by adding a regularization term to a loss function, preventing a model from making a peaked distribution. Label…

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Whereas previous post-processing approaches for increasing the fairness of predictions of biased classifiers address only group fairness, we propose a method for increasing both individual and group fairness. Our novel framework includes an…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) speech models have achieved remarkable performance in various tasks, yet the biased outcomes, especially affecting marginalized groups, raise significant concerns. Social bias refers to the phenomenon where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Yi-Cheng Lin , Tzu-Quan Lin , Hsi-Che Lin , Andy T. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Recursive prompting with large language models enables scalable synthetic dataset generation but introduces the risk of bias amplification. We investigate gender bias dynamics across three generations of recursive text generation using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ashish Kattamuri , Arpita Vats , Harshwardhan Fartale , Rahul Raja , Akshata Kishore Moharir , Ishita Prasad

It has been shown that word embeddings derived from large corpora tend to incorporate biases present in their training data. Various methods for mitigating these biases have been proposed, but recent work has demonstrated that these methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hailey Joren , David Alvarez-Melis

Sentiment analysis is an important task in natural language processing (NLP). Most of existing state-of-the-art methods are under the supervised learning paradigm. However, human annotations can be scarce. Thus, we should leverage more weak…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ziqian Zeng , Yangqiu Song

Language models have been shown to propagate social bias through their output, particularly in the representation of gender and ethnicity. This paper investigates gender and ethnicity biases in AI-generated occupational stories.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Martha O. Dimgba , Sharon Oba , Ameeta Agrawal , Philippe J. Giabbanelli

We examine whether neural natural language processing (NLP) systems reflect historical biases in training data. We define a general benchmark to quantify gender bias in a variety of neural NLP tasks. Our empirical evaluation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Kaiji Lu , Piotr Mardziel , Fangjing Wu , Preetam Amancharla , Anupam Datta

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate biased responses. Yet previous direct probing techniques contain either gender mentions or predefined gender stereotypes, which are challenging to comprehensively collect. Hence, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiangjue Dong , Yibo Wang , Philip S. Yu , James Caverlee

When we train models on biased datasets, they not only reproduce data biases, but can worsen them at test time - a phenomenon called bias amplification. Many of the current bias amplification metrics (e.g., BA (MALS), DPA) measure bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Rahul Nair , Bhanu Tokas , Hannah Kerner

Biases in the dataset often enable the model to achieve high performance on in-distribution data, while poorly performing on out-of-distribution data. To mitigate the detrimental effect of the bias on the networks, previous works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Eojin Jeon , Mingyu Lee , Juhyeong Park , Yeachan Kim , Wing-Lam Mok , SangKeun Lee

Text-to-image models are known to propagate social biases. For example, when prompted to generate images of people in certain professions, these models tend to systematically generate specific genders or ethnicities. In this paper, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Guorun Wang , Lucia Specia

Bolukbasi et al. (2016) presents one of the first gender bias mitigation techniques for word representations. Their method takes pre-trained word representations as input and attempts to isolate a linear subspace that captures most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Francisco Vargas , Ryan Cotterell

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), they have significantly improved efficiency across a wide range of domains. However, recent studies have revealed that LLMs often exhibit gender bias, leading to serious social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoqing Cheng , Hongying Zan , Lulu Kong , Jinwang Song , Min Peng

As machine learning methods are deployed in real-world settings such as healthcare, legal systems, and social science, it is crucial to recognize how they shape social biases and stereotypes in these sensitive decision-making processes.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Paul Pu Liang , Chiyu Wu , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Published studies have suggested the bias of automated face-based gender classification algorithms across gender-race groups. Specifically, unequal accuracy rates were obtained for women and dark-skinned people. To mitigate the bias of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Sreeraj Ramachandran , Ajita Rattani

In this work, we discover a phenomenon of community bias amplification in graph representation learning, which refers to the exacerbation of performance bias between different classes by graph representation learning. We conduct an in-depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shengzhong Zhang , Wenjie Yang , Yimin Zhang , Hongwei Zhang , Divin Yan , Zengfeng Huang

Many bias mitigation methods have been developed for addressing fairness issues in machine learning. We found that using linear mixup alone, a data augmentation technique, for bias mitigation, can still retain biases present in dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jingyu Hu , Jun Hong , Mengnan Du , Weiru Liu

There are concerns that neural language models may preserve some of the stereotypes of the underlying societies that generate the large corpora needed to train these models. For example, gender bias is a significant problem when generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Omar U. Florez

Recent works have found evidence of gender bias in models of machine translation and coreference resolution using mostly synthetic diagnostic datasets. While these quantify bias in a controlled experiment, they often do so on a small scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Shahar Levy , Koren Lazar , Gabriel Stanovsky