Papers by Isaac Slaughter
Pre-trained Speech Processing Models Contain Human-Like Biases that Propagate to Speech Emotion Recognition (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing work has established that a person’s demographics and speech style affect how well speech processing models perform for them. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to detect bias in pre-trained models by using word embedding association tests in natural language processing to quantify bias in models' representations of different concepts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method detects bias in pre-trained models and can have real-world effects. |
Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent work has found that vision-language models trained under the Contrastive Language Image Pre-training framework contain intrinsic social biases, but how these biase relates to downstream performance has been unclear. |
| Approach: | They present the largest comprehensive analysis to-date of how upstream pre-training factors and downstream performance of CLIP models relate to their intrinsic biases. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performance analysis shows that the choice of pre-training dataset is the most significant upstream predictor of bias, whereas architectural variations have minimal impact. |