5 papers
Homogenization in Multi-Agent Systems
Prakhar Ganesh, Kyra Wilson, Luca Zappella +4
Multi-agent systems (MAS) leverage interactions between agents to perform complex tasks. Despite their success, we show that these interactions can also lead to homogenization, i.e…
Theoretical Limits of Language Model Alignment
Lucas Monteiro Paes, Natalie Mackraz, Barry-John Theobald +1
Language model (LM) alignment improves model outputs to reflect human preferences while preserving the capabilities of the base model. The most common alignment approaches are (i)…
DSO: Direct Steering Optimization for Bias Mitigation
Lucas Monteiro Paes, Nivedha Sivakumar, Yinong Oliver Wang +4
Generative models are often deployed to make decisions on behalf of users, such as vision-language models (VLMs) identifying which person in a room is a doctor to help visually imp…
ICX360: In-Context eXplainability 360 Toolkit
Dennis Wei, Ronny Luss, Xiaomeng Hu +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous in everyday life and are entering higher-stakes applications ranging from summarizing meeting transcripts to answering doctors'…
Multi-Group Proportional Representation in Retrieval
Alex Oesterling, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, Carol Xuan Long +5
Image search and retrieval tasks can perpetuate harmful stereotypes, erase cultural identities, and amplify social disparities. Current approaches to mitigate these representationa…