Can Instruction Fine-Tuned Language Models Identify Social Bias through Prompting?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10472v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:03:40 GMT
• Title: Can Instruction Fine-Tuned Language Models Identify Social Bias through Prompting?
• Authors: Omkar Dige, Jacob-Junqi Tian, David Emerson, Faiza Khan Khattak
• Abstract summary: We present our work on evaluating instruction fine-tuned language models' ability to identify bias through zero-shot prompting. Across LLaMA and its two instruction fine-tuned versions, Alpaca 7B performs best on the bias identification task with an accuracy of 56.7%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As the breadth and depth of language model applications continue to expand rapidly, it is increasingly important to build efficient frameworks for measuring and mitigating the learned or inherited social biases of these models. In this paper, we present our work on evaluating instruction fine-tuned language models' ability to identify bias through zero-shot prompting, including Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompts. Across LLaMA and its two instruction fine-tuned versions, Alpaca 7B performs best on the bias identification task with an accuracy of 56.7%. We also demonstrate that scaling up LLM size and data diversity could lead to further performance gain. This is a work-in-progress presenting the first component of our bias mitigation framework. We will keep updating this work as we get more results.

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