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On the Interplay between Human Label Variation and Model Fairness

arXiv:2510.12036

Abstract

The impact of human label variation (HLV) on model fairness is an unexplored topic. This paper examines the interplay by comparing training on majority-vote labels with a range of HLV methods. Our experiments show that without explicit debiasing, HLV training methods have a positive impact on fairness under certain configurations.

10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted to EACL Findings 2026

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