提出新框架LIBRA,用本地语料评估大模型在非美国文化中的偏见。
LIBRA: Measuring Bias of Large Language Model from a Local Context
- 基于本地语料构建无众包评测集,避免文化偏差
- 发现多数模型对新西兰本地词汇理解不足,尤其在陌生语境
- 引入新指标EiCAT,区分知识边界外的幻觉与真实偏见
大型语言模型(LLMs)虽推动自然语言处理发展,但其固有偏见可能损害特定社会群体。现有研究存在两大局限:一、偏见评估集中于美国文化背景,难以揭示对其他文化的刻板印象;二、评估假设模型熟悉目标群体,当遇到训练数据中未覆盖的词汇时,模型因幻觉和过度自信产生无关输出,这不必然反映内在偏见。本文提出局部集成偏见识别与评估框架(LIBRA),基于本地语料库构建无需众包的评测数据集。我们开发了涵盖超过36万测试样本的新西兰语境数据集,并提出增强型理想化猫评分(EiCAT),融合iCAT得分、超出知识边界得分(bbs)及基于分布差异的偏见度量,以应对模型遭遇未知词汇时的问题。结果表明,BERT系列、GPT-2和Llama-3模型在不同上下文中对本地词汇理解普遍不足;尽管Llama-3偏见更大,但在多元文化情境下响应更佳。代码与数据集已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing applications, yet their widespread use raises concerns regarding inherent biases that may reduce utility or harm for particular social groups. Despite the advancement in addressing LLM bias, existing research has two major limitations. First, existing LLM bias evaluation focuses on the U.S. cultural context, making it challenging to reveal stereotypical biases of LLMs toward other cultures, leading to unfair development and use of LLMs. Second, current bias evaluation often assumes models are familiar with the target social groups. When LLMs encounter words beyond their knowledge boundaries that are unfamiliar in their training data, they produce irrelevant results in the local context due to hallucinations and overconfidence, which are not necessarily indicative of inherent bias. This research addresses these limitations with a Local Integrated Bias Recognition and Assessment Framework (LIBRA) for measuring bias using datasets sourced from local corpora without crowdsourcing. Implementing this framework, we develop a dataset comprising over 360,000 test cases in the New Zealand context. Furthermore, we propose the Enhanced Idealized CAT Score (EiCAT), integrating the iCAT score with a beyond knowledge boundary score (bbs) and a distribution divergence-based bias measurement to tackle the challenge of LLMs encountering words beyond knowledge boundaries. Our results show that the BERT family, GPT-2, and Llama-3 models seldom understand local words in different contexts. While Llama-3 exhibits larger bias, it responds better to different cultural contexts. The code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/ipangbo/LIBRA.
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