FineDeb: A Debiasing Framework for Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02453v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 18:35:21 GMT
• Title: FineDeb: A Debiasing Framework for Language Models
• Authors: Akash Saravanan, Dhruv Mullick, Habibur Rahman, Nidhi Hegde
• Abstract summary: We propose FineDeb, a two-phase debiasing framework for language models. Our results show that FineDeb offers stronger debiasing in comparison to other methods. Our framework is generalizable for demographics with multiple classes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As language models are increasingly included in human-facing machine learning tools, bias against demographic subgroups has gained attention. We propose FineDeb, a two-phase debiasing framework for language models that starts with contextual debiasing of embeddings learned by pretrained language models. The model is then fine-tuned on a language modeling objective. Our results show that FineDeb offers stronger debiasing in comparison to other methods which often result in models as biased as the original language model. Our framework is generalizable for demographics with multiple classes, and we demonstrate its effectiveness through extensive experiments and comparisons with state of the art techniques. We release our code and data on GitHub.

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