提出新基准GKnow,揭示语言模型中性别偏见与事实性别知识严重纠缠。
GKnow: Measuring the Entanglement of Gender Bias and Factual Gender

- 构建GKnow基准,区分性别刻板印象与事实性别信息的预测机制。
- 发现删除神经元会同时削弱偏见和事实性别知识,导致去偏方法不可靠。
- 适合关注模型公平性与可解释性的研究人员使用。
现有研究多聚焦于神经网络中单一组件对性别化预测的影响,常以缓解性别偏见为目标。然而,现有方法往往(i)仅针对特定性别任务(如代词性别预测),或(ii)无法区分基于语义的事实性别输出与基于刻板印象的偏见输出。为解决这些问题,我们构建了GKnow基准,用于评估语言模型在不同类型性别相关预测中的性别知识与偏见。GKnow使我们能够识别并分析负责性别化预测的神经回路与单个神经元。通过测试神经元删减对DiFair、GKnow测试集及StereoSet等基准的影响,结果表明:性别偏见与事实性别知识在回路与神经元层面存在严重纠缠,说明删减法作为去偏手段不可靠。此外,现有偏见评估基准可能掩盖神经元删减带来的事实性别知识下降。GKnow的构建旨在推动鲁棒性别偏见评估基准的持续发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent works have analyzed the impact of individual components of neural networks on gendered predictions, often with a focus on mitigating gender bias. However, mechanistic interpretations of gender tend to (i) focus on a very specific gender-related task, such as gendered pronoun prediction, or (ii) fail to distinguish between the production of factually gendered outputs (the correct assumption of gender given a word that carries gender as a semantic property) and gender biased outputs (based on a stereotype). To address these issues, we curate \gknow, a benchmark to assess gender knowledge and gender bias in language models across different types of gender-related predictions. \gknow allows us to identify and analyze circuits and individual neurons responsible for gendered predictions. We test the impact of neuron ablation on benchmarks for disentangling stereotypical and factual gender (DiFair and the test set of GKnow), as well as StereoSet. Results show that gender bias and factual gender are severely entangled on the level of both circuits and neurons, entailing that ablation is an unreliable debiasing method. Furthermore, we show that benchmarks for evaluating gender bias can hide the decrease in factual gender knowledge that accompanies neuron ablation. We curate GKnow as a contribution to the continuous development of robust gender bias benchmarks.
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