Papers with fine-grained debiasing strategies
Identifying and Mitigating Social Bias Knowledge in Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for debiasing may generate incorrect or nonsensical predictions but leave aside individual commonsense facts, resulting in modified knowledge that elicits unreasonable or undesired predictions. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that identifies encoding locations of biases within language models and then applies the Fairness-Stamp (FAST) they also propose 'BiaScope' to evaluate the retention of commonsense knowledge and generalization across paraphrased social biase. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses state-of-the-art baselines with superior debiasing performance while not compromising the overall model capability for knowledge retention and prediction. |