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Language model detoxification aims to minimize the risk of generating offensive or harmful content in pretrained language models (PLMs) for safer deployment. Existing methods can be roughly categorized as finetuning-based and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Chak Tou Leong , Yi Cheng , Jiashuo Wang , Jian Wang , Wenjie Li

Transformer-based Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive results on natural language understanding tasks, but they can also generate toxic text such as insults, threats, and profanity, limiting their real-world applications. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jin Myung Kwak , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Existing approaches for Large language model (LLM) detoxification generally rely on training on large-scale non-toxic or human-annotated preference data, designing prompts to instruct the LLM to generate safe content, or modifying the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuanhe Tian , Mingjie Deng , Guoqing Jin , Yan Song

Transformer-based language models are able to generate fluent text and be efficiently adapted across various natural language generation tasks. However, language models that are pretrained on large unlabeled web text corpora have been shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Farshid Faal , Ketra Schmitt , Jia Yuan Yu

Text detoxification aims to minimize the risk of language models producing toxic content. Existing detoxification methods of directly constraining the model output or further training the model on the non-toxic corpus fail to achieve a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zecheng Tang , Keyan Zhou , Juntao Li , Yuyang Ding , Pinzheng Wang , Bowen Yan , Rejie Hua , Min Zhang

Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed remarkable generative capabilities and emerging self-regulatory mechanisms, including self-correction and self-rewarding. However, current detoxification techniques rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kaituo Zhang , Zhimeng Jiang , Na Zou

Language models (LMs) can reproduce (or amplify) toxic language seen during training, which poses a risk to their practical application. In this paper, we conduct extensive experiments to study this phenomenon. We analyze the impact of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Canwen Xu , Zexue He , Zhankui He , Julian McAuley

Pre-trained language models (LMs) are shown to easily generate toxic language. In this work, we systematically explore domain-adaptive training to reduce the toxicity of language models. We conduct this study on three dimensions: training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Boxin Wang , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , Peng Xu , Mostofa Patwary , Mohammad Shoeybi , Bo Li , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved promising results in tabular data generation. However, inherent historical biases in tabular datasets often cause LLMs to exacerbate fairness issues, particularly when multiple advantaged and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tianchun Li , Tianci Liu , Xingchen Wang , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li , Lu Su , Jing Gao

We present UniDetox, a universally applicable method designed to mitigate toxicity across various large language models (LLMs). Previous detoxification methods are typically model-specific, addressing only individual models or model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Huimin Lu , Masaru Isonuma , Junichiro Mori , Ichiro Sakata

When trained on large, unfiltered crawls from the internet, language models pick up and reproduce all kinds of undesirable biases that can be found in the data: they often generate racist, sexist, violent or otherwise toxic language. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Timo Schick , Sahana Udupa , Hinrich Schütze

Despite the remarkable achievements of language models (LMs) across a broad spectrum of tasks, their propensity for generating toxic outputs remains a prevalent concern. Current solutions involving finetuning or auxiliary models usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yu Li , Han Jiang , Chuanyang Gong , Zhihua Wei

Language models (LMs) must be both safe and equitable to be responsibly deployed in practice. With safety in mind, numerous detoxification techniques (e.g., Dathathri et al. 2020; Krause et al. 2020) have been proposed to mitigate toxic LM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Albert Xu , Eshaan Pathak , Eric Wallace , Suchin Gururangan , Maarten Sap , Dan Klein

The training of large language models (LLMs) on extensive, unfiltered corpora sourced from the internet is a common and advantageous practice. Consequently, LLMs have learned and inadvertently reproduced various types of biases, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ambri Ma , Arnav Kumar , Brett Zeligson

Debiasing methods that seek to mitigate the tendency of Language Models (LMs) to occasionally output toxic or inappropriate text have recently gained traction. In this paper, we propose a standardized protocol which distinguishes methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Robert Morabito , Jad Kabbara , Ali Emami

The generation of toxic content by large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for the safe deployment of language technology. We propose a novel framework for implicit knowledge editing and controlled text generation by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

The field of natural language generation has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, including the development of controllable text generation techniques. However, controlling the attributes of the generated text remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tong Niu , Caiming Xiong , Semih Yavuz , Yingbo Zhou

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) are widely used in NLP for various tasks. Recent studies have identified various biases that such models exhibit and have proposed methods to correct these biases. However, most of the works address a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Prachi Jain , Ashutosh Sathe , Varun Gumma , Kabir Ahuja , Sunayana Sitaram

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit pronounced social biases. Output-level or data-optimization--based debiasing methods cannot fully resolve these biases, and many prior works have shown that biases are embedded in internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zikang Ding , Junchi Yao , Junhao Li , Yi Zhang , Wenbo Jiang , Hongbo Liu , Lijie Hu

Existing Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models have been shown to incorporate dataset biases leading to strong performance on in-distribution (ID) test sets but poor performance on out-of-distribution (OOD) ones. We introduce a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Abbas Ghaddar , Philippe Langlais , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ahmad Rashid
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