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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

   Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey

   Gallegos, Rossi, Barrow et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   A survey of bias evaluation and mitigation in large language models, offering definitions of social bias and fairness plus three taxonomies: metrics, datasets and mitigation techniques.

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   1. UncheckedThe survey proposes a taxonomy of bias metrics that separates metrics from datasets and groups them by model level: embeddings, probabilities and generated text.“Our first taxonomy of metrics for bias evaluation disambiguates the relationship between metrics and evaluation datasets, and organizes metrics by the different levels at which they operate in a model: embeddings, probabilities, and generated text.”
   2. UncheckedThe survey sorts bias-mitigation methods for language models by when they act: before training, during training, during processing, or after output.“Our third taxonomy of techniques for bias mitigation classifies methods by their intervention during pre-processing, in-training, intra-processing, and post-processing, with granular subcategories that elucidate research trends.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Plug-and-Play Document Modules for Pre-trained Models

   Xiao, Zhang, Han et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper proposes representing each document as a plug-in module for pre-trained models, so documents are encoded once and reused across tasks, and tests this on 8 datasets across 4 NLP tasks.

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   1. UncheckedPlugD is reported to cut computational costs by 69% while performing comparably to state-of-the-art methods that encode documents and queries together.“Especially, PlugD can save $69\%$ computational costs while achieving comparable performance to state-of-the-art encoding-task coupling methods.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper reports that PlugD document modules can add knowledge to task-specific models after training, improving performance without any further model training.“Additionally, we show that PlugD can serve as an effective post-processing way to inject knowledge into task-specific models, improving model performance without any additional model training.”