Summary of Evaluating Model Bias Requires Characterizing Its Mistakes, by Isabela Albuquerque et al.
Evaluating Model Bias Requires Characterizing its Mistakes
by Isabela Albuquerque, Jessica Schrouff, David Warde-Farley, Taylan Cemgil, Sven Gowal, Olivia Wiles
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new metric called SkewSize, which characterizes model mistakes across subgroups and reflects model biases. This is important for building better predictors and increasing confidence in model performance. The metric is inspired by hypothesis testing frameworks and can be used in multi-class settings or generalized to open vocabulary settings of generative models. The authors demonstrate the utility of SkewSize in various settings, including vision models trained on synthetic data, ImageNet, and large-scale vision-and-language models from the BLIP-2 family. SkewSize is an aggregation of the effect size of the interaction between two categorical variables: the spurious variable representing bias attributes and model predictions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to measure how well a machine learning model works. It’s called SkewSize, and it helps us understand if the model is making mistakes in certain groups of data. This is important because sometimes models can be biased towards certain types of data or people. The authors show that SkewSize can help us see these biases and even measure how well new techniques, like instruction tuning, work. They test SkewSize with different types of models, including those for images and text. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Instruction tuning » Machine learning » Synthetic data
