Parameter-efficient Modularised Bias Mitigation via AdapterFusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06321v2
• Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:14:15 GMT
• Title: Parameter-efficient Modularised Bias Mitigation via AdapterFusion
• Authors: Deepak Kumar, Oleg Lesota, George Zerveas, Daniel Cohen, Carsten Eickhoff, Markus Schedl, Navid Rekabsaz
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach to develop stand-alone debiasing functionalities separate from the model. We introduce DAM - a debiasing approach to first encapsulate arbitrary bias mitigation functionalities into separate adapters, and then add them to the model on-demand. Our results show that DAM improves or maintains the effectiveness of bias mitigation, avoids forgetting in a multi-attribute scenario, and maintains on-par task performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large pre-trained language models contain societal biases and carry along these biases to downstream tasks. Current in-processing bias mitigation approaches (like adversarial training) impose debiasing by updating a model's parameters, effectively transferring the model to a new, irreversible debiased state. In this work, we propose a novel approach to develop stand-alone debiasing functionalities separate from the model, which can be integrated into the model on-demand, while keeping the core model untouched. Drawing from the concept of AdapterFusion in multi-task learning, we introduce DAM (Debiasing with Adapter Modules) - a debiasing approach to first encapsulate arbitrary bias mitigation functionalities into separate adapters, and then add them to the model on-demand in order to deliver fairness qualities. We conduct a large set of experiments on three classification tasks with gender, race, and age as protected attributes. Our results show that DAM improves or maintains the effectiveness of bias mitigation, avoids catastrophic forgetting in a multi-attribute scenario, and maintains on-par task performance, while granting parameter-efficiency and easy switching between the original and debiased models.

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