InterFair: Debiasing with Natural Language Feedback for Fair Interpretable Predictions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07440v2
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:35:14 GMT
• Title: InterFair: Debiasing with Natural Language Feedback for Fair Interpretable Predictions
• Authors: Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Zexue He, Julian McAuley
• Abstract summary: We argue that a favorable debiasing method should use sensitive information 'fairly,' with explanations, rather than blindly eliminating it. We explore two interactive setups with a frozen predictive model and show that users able to provide feedback can achieve a better and fairer balance between task performance and bias mitigation.
• Score: 30.246111670391375
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Debiasing methods in NLP models traditionally focus on isolating information related to a sensitive attribute (e.g., gender or race). We instead argue that a favorable debiasing method should use sensitive information 'fairly,' with explanations, rather than blindly eliminating it. This fair balance is often subjective and can be challenging to achieve algorithmically. We explore two interactive setups with a frozen predictive model and show that users able to provide feedback can achieve a better and fairer balance between task performance and bias mitigation. In one setup, users, by interacting with test examples, further decreased bias in the explanations (5-8%) while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. In the other setup, human feedback was able to disentangle associated bias and predictive information from the input leading to superior bias mitigation and improved task performance (4-5%) simultaneously.

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