Uncovering Bias in Large Vision-Language Models with Counterfactuals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00166v2
• Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:29:19 GMT
• Title: Uncovering Bias in Large Vision-Language Models with Counterfactuals
• Authors: Phillip Howard, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko,
• Abstract summary: We study the social biases contained in text generated by Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) We present LVLMs with identical open-ended text prompts while conditioning on images from different counterfactual sets. We find that social attributes such as race, gender, and physical characteristics depicted in input images can significantly influence toxicity and the generation of competency-associated words.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) possessing increasingly impressive capabilities, a number of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been proposed to augment LLMs with visual inputs. Such models condition generated text on both an input image and a text prompt, enabling a variety of use cases such as visual question answering and multimodal chat. While prior studies have examined the social biases contained in text generated by LLMs, this topic has been relatively unexplored in LVLMs. Examining social biases in LVLMs is particularly challenging due to the confounding contributions of bias induced by information contained across the text and visual modalities. To address this challenging problem, we conduct a large-scale study of text generated by different LVLMs under counterfactual changes to input images. Specifically, we present LVLMs with identical open-ended text prompts while conditioning on images from different counterfactual sets, where each set contains images which are largely identical in their depiction of a common subject (e.g., a doctor), but vary only in terms of intersectional social attributes (e.g., race and gender). We comprehensively evaluate the text produced by different LVLMs under this counterfactual generation setting and find that social attributes such as race, gender, and physical characteristics depicted in input images can significantly influence toxicity and the generation of competency-associated words.

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