Finspector: A Human-Centered Visual Inspection Tool for Exploring and Comparing Biases among Foundation Models

Bum Chul Kwon, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya


Abstract
Pre-trained transformer-based language models are becoming increasingly popular due to their exceptional performance on various benchmarks. However, concerns persist regarding the presence of hidden biases within these models, which can lead to discriminatory outcomes and reinforce harmful stereotypes. To address this issue, we propose Finspector, a human-centered visual inspection tool designed to detect biases in different categories through log-likelihood scores generated by language models. The goal of the tool is to enable researchers to easily identify potential biases using visual analytics, ultimately contributing to a fairer and more just deployment of these models in both academic and industrial settings. Finspector is available at https://github.com/IBM/finspector.
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2023.acl-demo.4
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
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July
Year:
2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Danushka Bollegala, Ruihong Huang, Alan Ritter
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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42–50
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-demo.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-demo.4
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Bum Chul Kwon and Nandana Mihindukulasooriya. 2023. Finspector: A Human-Centered Visual Inspection Tool for Exploring and Comparing Biases among Foundation Models. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 42–50, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Finspector: A Human-Centered Visual Inspection Tool for Exploring and Comparing Biases among Foundation Models (Kwon & Mihindukulasooriya, ACL 2023)
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