Challenge: Existing methods for debiasing large language models require external bias knowledge or annotated non-biased samples, which is lacking for position debiases.
Approach: They propose a self-supervised position debiasing framework that leverages unsupervised responses from pre-trained LLMs for debiazing without external bias knowledge.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in mitigating three types of position biases on eight datasets and five tasks.

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