Summary of Gendercare: a Comprehensive Framework For Assessing and Reducing Gender Bias in Large Language Models, by Kunsheng Tang et al.
GenderCARE: A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing and Reducing Gender Bias in Large Language Models
by Kunsheng Tang, Wenbo Zhou, Jie Zhang, Aishan Liu, Gelei Deng, Shuai Li, Peigui Qi, Weiming Zhang, Tianwei Zhang, Nenghai Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 GenderCARE, a comprehensive framework to assess and mitigate gender bias in large language models (LLMs). The authors establish pioneering criteria for gender equality benchmarks, including inclusivity, diversity, explainability, objectivity, robustness, and realisticity. They construct a novel pair-based benchmark, GenderPair, designed to comprehensively evaluate gender bias in LLMs. The framework also includes debiasing techniques using counterfactual data augmentation and fine-tuning strategies. Extensive experiments demonstrate significant reductions in gender bias benchmarks, with minimal impact on mainstream language tasks. The paper aims to promote fairness and equity in LLMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making sure that large language models don’t have biases towards one gender over another. It proposes a new way to measure this bias and ways to reduce it without affecting the model’s overall performance. The authors create a special benchmark to test the model’s fairness, and they show that their approach can significantly decrease gender bias in many different models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Data augmentation » Fine tuning
