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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

Despite their impressive performance in a wide range of NLP tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been reported to encode worrying-levels of gender biases. Prior work has proposed debiasing methods that require human labelled examples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Daisuke Oba , Masahiro Kaneko , Danushka Bollegala

Societal biases are reflected in large pre-trained language models and their fine-tuned versions on downstream tasks. Common in-processing bias mitigation approaches, such as adversarial training and mutual information removal, introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lukas Hauzenberger , Shahed Masoudian , Deepak Kumar , Markus Schedl , Navid Rekabsaz

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing has garnered significant attention due to its potential impact on societal perceptions and biases. This research paper aims to analyze gender bias in Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Vishesh Thakur

Neural machine translation (NMT) models often suffer from gender biases that harm users and society at large. In this work, we explore how bridging the gap between languages for which parallel data is not available affects gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Lena Cabrera , Jan Niehues

Machine learning models are trained to find patterns in data. NLP models can inadvertently learn socially undesirable patterns when training on gender biased text. In this work, we propose a general framework that decomposes gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Emily Dinan , Angela Fan , Ledell Wu , Jason Weston , Douwe Kiela , Adina Williams

Large pre-trained language models are widely used in the community. These models are usually trained on unmoderated and unfiltered data from open sources like the Internet. Due to this, biases that we see in platforms online which are a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Swapnil Sharma , Nikita Anand , Kranthi Kiran G. V. , Alind Jain

Bias and stereotypes in language models can cause harm, especially in sensitive areas like content moderation and decision-making. This paper addresses bias and stereotype detection by exploring how jointly learning these tasks enhances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Aditya Tomar , Rudra Murthy , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Human biases have been shown to influence the performance of models and algorithms in various fields, including Natural Language Processing. While the study of this phenomenon is garnering focus in recent years, the available resources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ana Sofia Evans , Helena Moniz , Luísa Coheur

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

Existing neural information retrieval (IR) models have often been studied in homogeneous and narrow settings, which has considerably limited insights into their out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization capabilities. To address this, and to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Nandan Thakur , Nils Reimers , Andreas Rücklé , Abhishek Srivastava , Iryna Gurevych

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

Recent work has shown pre-trained language models capture social biases from the large amounts of text they are trained on. This has attracted attention to developing techniques that mitigate such biases. In this work, we perform an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Nicholas Meade , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Siva Reddy

The task of image captioning implicitly involves gender identification. However, due to the gender bias in data, gender identification by an image captioning model suffers. Also, the gender-activity bias, owing to the word-by-word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Shruti Bhargava , David Forsyth

Gender bias in language models has gained increasing attention in the field of natural language processing. Encoder-based transformer models, which have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various language tasks, have been shown to…

Recent research demonstrates that word embeddings, trained on the human-generated corpus, have strong gender biases in embedding spaces, and these biases can result in the discriminative results from the various downstream tasks. Whereas…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Seungjae Shin , Kyungwoo Song , JoonHo Jang , Hyemi Kim , Weonyoung Joo , Il-Chul Moon

Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their effectiveness in a wide range of applications, they have also been observed to perpetuate unwanted biases present in the training data, potentially leading to harm for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Schrasing Tong , Eliott Zemour , Jessica Lu , Rawisara Lohanimit , Lalana Kagal

Studies have shown that some Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems encode and replicate harmful biases with potential adverse ethical effects in our society. In this article, we propose an approach for identifying gender and racial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sean Matthews , John Hudzina , Dawn Sepehr

This study delves into the pervasive issue of gender issues in artificial intelligence (AI), specifically within automatic scoring systems for student-written responses. The primary objective is to investigate the presence of gender biases,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ehsan Latif , Xiaoming Zhai , Lei Liu

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a pressing concern with profound implications for individuals' lives. This paper presents a comprehensive survey that explores gender bias in Transformer models from a linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Praneeth Nemani , Yericherla Deepak Joel , Palla Vijay , Farhana Ferdousi Liza