Balancing the Picture: Debiasing Vision-Language Datasets with Synthetic Contrast Sets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15407v1
• Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 17:59:18 GMT
• Title: Balancing the Picture: Debiasing Vision-Language Datasets with Synthetic Contrast Sets
• Authors: Brandon Smith, Miguel Farinha, Siobhan Mackenzie Hall, Hannah Rose Kirk, Aleksandar Shtedritski, Max Bain
• Abstract summary: Vision-language models can perpetuate and amplify societal biases learned during pre-training on uncurated image-text pairs from the internet. COCO Captions is the most commonly used dataset for evaluating bias between background context and the gender of people in-situ. We propose a novel dataset debiasing pipeline to augment the COCO dataset with synthetic, gender-balanced contrast sets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-language models are growing in popularity and public visibility to generate, edit, and caption images at scale; but their outputs can perpetuate and amplify societal biases learned during pre-training on uncurated image-text pairs from the internet. Although debiasing methods have been proposed, we argue that these measurements of model bias lack validity due to dataset bias. We demonstrate there are spurious correlations in COCO Captions, the most commonly used dataset for evaluating bias, between background context and the gender of people in-situ. This is problematic because commonly-used bias metrics (such as Bias@K) rely on per-gender base rates. To address this issue, we propose a novel dataset debiasing pipeline to augment the COCO dataset with synthetic, gender-balanced contrast sets, where only the gender of the subject is edited and the background is fixed. However, existing image editing methods have limitations and sometimes produce low-quality images; so, we introduce a method to automatically filter the generated images based on their similarity to real images. Using our balanced synthetic contrast sets, we benchmark bias in multiple CLIP-based models, demonstrating how metrics are skewed by imbalance in the original COCO images. Our results indicate that the proposed approach improves the validity of the evaluation, ultimately contributing to more realistic understanding of bias in vision-language models.

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