Summary of A Practical Method For Generating String Counterfactuals, by Matan Avitan et al.
A Practical Method for Generating String Counterfactuals
by Matan Avitan, Ryan Cotterell, Yoav Goldberg, Shauli Ravfogel
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method converts representation counterfactuals into string counterfactuals, enabling analysis of linguistic alterations corresponding to a given representation space intervention and interpretation of features encoding specific concepts. This approach can mitigate bias in classification through data augmentation. The paper presents a technique to analyze the impact of interventions targeting language model representations on text encoding and decoding, with applications in fairness and transparency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us understand how we can change what a computer program like a language model thinks about certain things, like gender. Right now, these programs might accidentally learn to associate certain words or ideas with gender. By “undoing” this learning, researchers are trying to make the models fairer and less biased. This paper shows how we can take those “undone” changes and see what specific words or phrases were changed to achieve fairness. It’s a step towards making AI more transparent and fair. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Data augmentation * Language model
