Gender Bias in Meta-Embeddings

Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki


Abstract
Different methods have been proposed to develop meta-embeddings from a given set of source embeddings. However, the source embeddings can contain unfair gender-related biases, and how these influence the meta-embeddings has not been studied yet. We study the gender bias in meta-embeddings created under three different settings:(1) meta-embedding multiple sources without performing any debiasing (Multi-Source No-Debiasing),(2) meta-embedding multiple sources debiased by a single method (Multi-Source Single-Debiasing), and(3) meta-embedding a single source debiased by different methods (Single-Source Multi-Debiasing).Our experimental results show that meta-embedding amplifies the gender biases compared to input source embeddings.We find that debiasing not only the sources but also their meta-embedding is needed to mitigate those biases. Moreover, we propose a novel debiasing method based on meta-embedding learning where we use multiple debiasing methods on a single source embedding and then create a single unbiased meta-embedding.
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2022.findings-emnlp.227
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3118–3133
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.227
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.227
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Masahiro Kaneko, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. 2022. Gender Bias in Meta-Embeddings. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 3118–3133, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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