arXiv:2506.22372cs.IRcs.CL2025-06中稿 · ACM SIGIR Conferen…被引 1

用大模型检测文本排序中的性别偏见,提升评估精度。

Towards Fair Rankings: Leveraging LLMs for Gender Bias Detection and Measurement

  • 用大模型识别排序结果中的细微性别偏见。
  • 新指标CWEx与人工标注一致性达58.77%(Grep-BiasIR)。
  • 发布新数据集MSMGenderBias,助力公平性研究。

自然语言处理与信息检索系统中存在的社会偏见仍是持续挑战,亟需可靠方法识别与评估此类偏见。本文利用大语言模型(LLMs)检测与测量段落排序中的性别偏见。现有性别公平性度量依赖词法与频次特征,存在遗漏细微偏见等问题。基于我们的大模型偏见检测方法,提出新型公平性度量指标——类别加权曝光(CWEx),以克服上述局限。为评估所提指标有效性并研究大模型在偏见检测中的表现,我们对MS MARCO段落排序数据集的一个子集进行人工标注,发布新的性别偏见数据集MSMGenderBias,以促进该领域后续研究。在多种排序模型上的实验表明,所提指标相比以往度量能更细致地评估公平性,与人工标签一致性显著提升(Grep-BiasIR为58.77%,MSMGenderBias为18.51%,以Cohen's Kappa衡量),有效区分排序中的性别偏见。本工作通过整合大模型驱动的偏见检测、改进的公平性度量及已知数据集的偏见标注,构建了更稳健的检索系统偏见分析与缓解框架。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The presence of social biases in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) systems is an ongoing challenge, which underlines the importance of developing robust approaches to identifying and evaluating such biases. In this paper, we aim to address this issue by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to detect and measure gender bias in passage ranking. Existing gender fairness metrics rely on lexical- and frequency-based measures, leading to various limitations, e.g., missing subtle gender disparities. Building on our LLM-based gender bias detection method, we introduce a novel gender fairness metric, named Class-wise Weighted Exposure (CWEx), aiming to address existing limitations. To measure the effectiveness of our proposed metric and study LLMs' effectiveness in detecting gender bias, we annotate a subset of the MS MARCO Passage Ranking collection and release our new gender bias collection, called MSMGenderBias, to foster future research in this area. Our extensive experimental results on various ranking models show that our proposed metric offers a more detailed evaluation of fairness compared to previous metrics, with improved alignment to human labels (58.77% for Grep-BiasIR, and 18.51% for MSMGenderBias, measured using Cohen's Kappa agreement), effectively distinguishing gender bias in ranking. By integrating LLM-driven bias detection, an improved fairness metric, and gender bias annotations for an established dataset, this work provides a more robust framework for analyzing and mitigating bias in IR systems.

性别偏见大模型公平性评估信息检索

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