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most citedMan is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

1.4k citations · 1.6k across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

Beyond Linear Steering: Unified Multi-Attribute Control for Language Models

Narmeen Oozeer, Luke Marks, Shreyans Jain +2

Controlling multiple behavioral attributes in large language models (LLMs) at inference time is a challenging problem due to interference between attributes and the limitations of…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Scalable Influence and Fact Tracing for Large Language Model Pretraining

Tyler A. Chang, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Tolga Bolukbasi +2

Training data attribution (TDA) methods aim to attribute model outputs back to specific training examples, and the application of these methods to large language model (LLM) output…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Self-Influence Guided Data Reweighting for Language Model Pre-training

Megh Thakkar, Tolga Bolukbasi, Sriram Ganapathy +3

Language Models (LMs) pre-trained with self-supervision on large text corpora have become the default starting point for developing models for various NLP tasks. Once the pre-train…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Simfluence: Modeling the Influence of Individual Training Examples by Simulating Training Runs

Kelvin Guu, Albert Webson, Ellie Pavlick +3

Training data attribution (TDA) methods offer to trace a model's prediction on any given example back to specific influential training examples. Existing approaches do so by assign…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Gradient-Based Automated Iterative Recovery for Parameter-Efficient Tuning

Maximilian Mozes, Tolga Bolukbasi, Ann Yuan +3

Pretrained large language models (LLMs) are able to solve a wide variety of tasks through transfer learning. Various explainability methods have been developed to investigate their…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Towards Agile Text Classifiers for Everyone

Maximilian Mozes, Jessica Hoffmann, Katrin Tomanek +5

Text-based safety classifiers are widely used for content moderation and increasingly to tune generative language model behavior - a topic of growing concern for the safety of digi…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Towards Tracing Factual Knowledge in Language Models Back to the Training Data

Ekin Akyürek, Tolga Bolukbasi, Frederick Liu +4

Language models (LMs) have been shown to memorize a great deal of factual knowledge contained in their training data. But when an LM generates an assertion, it is often difficult t…

cs.CL2021★ 11 cited

An Interpretability Illusion for BERT

Tolga Bolukbasi, Adam Pearce, Ann Yuan +4

We describe an "interpretability illusion" that arises when analyzing the BERT model. Activations of individual neurons in the network may spuriously appear to encode a single, sim…

cs.LG2019

Debiasing Embeddings for Reduced Gender Bias in Text Classification

Flavien Prost, Nithum Thain, Tolga Bolukbasi

(Bolukbasi et al., 2016) demonstrated that pretrained word embeddings can inherit gender bias from the data they were trained on. We investigate how this bias affects downstream cl…

cs.LG2018

Robust Text Classifier on Test-Time Budgets

Md Rizwan Parvez, Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang +1

We propose a generic and interpretable learning framework for building robust text classification model that achieves accuracy comparable to full models under test-time budget cons…

cs.LG2017★ 135 cited

Adaptive Neural Networks for Efficient Inference

Tolga Bolukbasi, Joseph Wang, Ofer Dekel +1

We present an approach to adaptively utilize deep neural networks in order to reduce the evaluation time on new examples without loss of accuracy. Rather than attempting to redesig…

cs.CL2016★ 1.4k cited

Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou +2

The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. Such a danger is facing us with word embedding, a popular framework to represent text…

cs.CL2016★ 61 cited

Quantifying and Reducing Stereotypes in Word Embeddings

Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou +2

Machine learning algorithms are optimized to model statistical properties of the training data. If the input data reflects stereotypes and biases of the broader society, then the o…

stat.ML2016★ 4 cited

Resource Constrained Structured Prediction

Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, Joseph Wang +1

We study the problem of structured prediction under test-time budget constraints. We propose a novel approach applicable to a wide range of structured prediction problems in comput…