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Intrinsic bias metrics do not correlate with application bias

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Goldfarb-Tarrant, Seraphina, Marchant, Rebecca, Muñoz Sánchez, Ricardo, Pandya, Mugdha, Lopez, Adam·2021·Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Rebecca Marchant, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Mugdha Pandya, Adam Lopez. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2021.

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  • Goldfarb-Tarrant et al. (2021) find no reliable correlation at all between embedding bias and downstream bias.

    “In fact, Goldfarb-Tarrant et al. (2021) find no reliable correlation at all”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Goldfarb-Tarrant et al. 2021

    The Discussion (section 6) reports no reliable overall relationship between changes in WEAT and changes in application bias. But the Conclusion (section 7) says positive correlations exist in restricted settings, so “no reliable correlation at all” is too absolute. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Biases in the embedding space have only weak or inconsistent relationships with biases in downstream tasks.

    “Several works point out that biases in the embedding space have only weak or inconsistent relationships with biases in downstream tasks (Cabello, Jørgensen, and Søgaard 2023; Cao et al. 2022a; Goldfarb-Tarrant et al. 2021; Orgad and Belinkov 2022; Orgad, Goldfarb-Tarrant, and Belinkov 2022; Steed et al. 2022).”

    From Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as Goldfarb-Tarrant et al. 2021

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Authors
Goldfarb-Tarrant, S., Marchant, R., Muñoz Sánchez, R., Pandya, M., & Lopez, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
Venue
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Published
2021
Pages
1926-1940
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W3121085131
Cited by
33
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40
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2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3
FWCI
4.74
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conference paper
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en
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cc-by
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Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/T023767/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
Keywords
algorithmic fairness, bias measurement, algorithmic discrimination

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