2 papers
cs.LG2026
Obliviator Reveals the Cost of Nonlinear Guardedness in Concept Erasure
Ramin Akbari, Milad Afshari, Vishnu Naresh Boddeti
Concept erasure aims to remove unwanted attributes, such as social or demographic factors, from learned representations, while preserving their task-relevant utility. While the goa…
cs.CL2024
Towards Understanding Task-agnostic Debiasing Through the Lenses of Intrinsic Bias and Forgetfulness
Guangliang Liu, Milad Afshari, Xitong Zhang +5
While task-agnostic debiasing provides notable generalizability and reduced reliance on downstream data, its impact on language modeling ability and the risk of relearning social b…