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This paper presents a novel approach to recruitment automation. Large Language Models (LLMs) were fine-tuned to improve accuracy and efficiency. Building upon our previous work on the Multilayer Large Language Model-Based Robotic Process…

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Targeted evaluations have found that machine translation systems often output incorrect gender, even when the gender is clear from context. Furthermore, these incorrectly gendered translations have the potential to reflect or amplify social…

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The proliferation of personalized recommendation technologies has raised concerns about discrepancies in their recommendation performance across different genders, age groups, and racial or ethnic populations. This varying degree of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Jessie Smith , Arman Dehpanah , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher

Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required for providing advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms. Candidate selection is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Mariona Coll Ardanuy , Kasra Hosseini , Katherine McDonough , Amrey Krause , Daniel van Strien , Federico Nanni

In the quest for fairness in artificial intelligence, novel approaches to enhance it in facial image based gender classification algorithms using text guided methodologies are presented. The core methodology involves leveraging semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Anoop Krishnan

Gender bias is not only prevalent in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their training data, but also firmly ingrained into the structural aspects of language itself. Therefore, adapting linguistic structures within LLM training data to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Marion Bartl , Susan Leavy

Gender bias exists in natural language datasets which neural language models tend to learn, resulting in biased text generation. In this research, we propose a debiasing approach based on the loss function modification. We introduce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Yusu Qian , Urwa Muaz , Ben Zhang , Jae Won Hyun

In this paper, we derive an algorithmic fairness metric from the fairness notion of equal opportunity for equally qualified candidates for recommendation algorithms commonly used by two-sided marketplaces. We borrow from the economic…

General Economics · Economics 2022-08-23 YinYin Yu , Guillaume Saint-Jacques

Word vector representations are well developed tools for various NLP and Machine Learning tasks and are known to retain significant semantic and syntactic structure of languages. But they are prone to carrying and amplifying bias which can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Sunipa Dev , Jeff Phillips

Measuring biases of vision systems with respect to protected attributes like gender and age is critical as these systems gain widespread use in society. However, significant correlations between attributes in benchmark datasets make it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chandan Singh , Guha Balakrishnan , Pietro Perona

A growing proportion of human interactions are digitized on social media platforms and subjected to algorithmic decision-making, and it has become increasingly important to ensure fair treatment from these algorithms. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Naher Keya , Ziqian Zeng , Shimei Pan , James Foulds

Concerns regarding fairness and bias have been raised in recent years due to the growing use of machine learning models in crucial decision-making processes, especially when it comes to delicate characteristics like gender. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Saish Shinde

Data-driven predictive solutions predominant in commercial applications tend to suffer from biases and stereotypes, which raises equity concerns. Prediction models may discover, use, or amplify spurious correlations based on gender or other…

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Abusive language detection models tend to have a problem of being biased toward identity words of a certain group of people because of imbalanced training datasets. For example, "You are a good woman" was considered "sexist" when trained on…

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Text embedding is becoming an increasingly popular AI methodology, especially among businesses, yet the potential of text embedding models to be biased is not well understood. This paper examines the degree to which a selection of popular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Vasyl Rakivnenko , Nestor Maslej , Jessica Cervi , Volodymyr Zhukov

Understanding the textual components of resumes and job postings is critical for improving job-matching accuracy and optimizing job search systems in online recruitment platforms. However, existing works primarily focus on analyzing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Napat Laosaengpha , Thanit Tativannarat , Attapol Rutherford , Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

We present GenderBench -- a comprehensive evaluation suite designed to measure gender biases in LLMs. GenderBench includes 14 probes that quantify 19 gender-related harmful behaviors exhibited by LLMs. We release GenderBench as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Matúš Pikuliak

Screening mammography improves breast cancer outcomes by enabling early detection and treatment. However, false positive callbacks for additional imaging from screening exams cause unnecessary procedures, patient anxiety, and financial…

Natural language generation models reproduce and often amplify the biases present in their training data. Previous research explored using sequence-to-sequence rewriting models to transform biased model outputs (or original texts) into more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chantal Amrhein , Florian Schottmann , Rico Sennrich , Samuel Läubli

During training, Large Language Models (LLMs) learn social regularities that can lead to gender bias in downstream applications. Most mitigation efforts focus on reducing bias in generated outputs, typically evaluated on structured…

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