Summary of Closing the Gap in the Trade-off Between Fair Representations and Accuracy, by Biswajit Rout et al.
Closing the Gap in the Trade-off between Fair Representations and Accuracy
by Biswajit Rout, Ananya B. Sai, Arun Rajkumar
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel study investigates the fairness of natural language processing (NLP) models by analyzing embedding-level biases in document and sentence representations. The research identifies bias towards or against specific sub-groups based on reconstruction errors along principal components, demonstrating the potential impact on downstream tasks. To mitigate this bias while maintaining model accuracy, the authors propose strategies for encoding reformulation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how language models are biased, which can affect what they tell us about different groups of people. Researchers found that some language representations were better at understanding certain types of documents or sentences over others, leading to unfair results. To make things more equal, the authors suggest ways to change these representations while still getting good answers. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Embedding » Natural language processing » Nlp
