Demographics Should Not Be the Reason of Toxicity: Mitigating Discrimination in Text Classifications with Instance Weighting (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent research has found that text classification datasets contain certain unintended biases, such as text containing demographic identity-terms that are more likely to be abusive. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-agnostic debiasing framework that recovers the non-discrimination distribution using instance weighting, which does not require extra resources or annotations apart from a pre-defined set of demographic identity-terms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework alleviates the unintended biases without hurting models’ generalization ability. |
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