5 papers
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)…
Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models
Nivedha Sivakumar, Natalie Mackraz, Samira Khorshidi +4
A dangerous assumption that can be made from prior work on the bias transfer hypothesis (BTH) is that biases do not transfer from pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to adapte…
Is Your Model Fairly Certain? Uncertainty-Aware Fairness Evaluation for LLMs
Yinong Oliver Wang, Nivedha Sivakumar, Falaah Arif Khan +6
The recent rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) highlights the critical need for benchmarking their fairness. Conventional fairness metrics, which focus on discrete accur…
Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Natalie Mackraz, Barry-John Theobald +1
Accommodating human preferences is essential for creating aligned LLM agents that deliver personalized and effective interactions. Recent work has shown the potential for LLMs acti…
Evaluating Gender Bias Transfer between Pre-trained and Prompt-Adapted Language Models
Natalie Mackraz, Nivedha Sivakumar, Samira Khorshidi +4
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adapted to achieve task-specificity for deployment in real-world decision systems. Several previous works have investigated the…