5 papers
Bias in Gender Bias Benchmarks: How Spurious Features Distort Evaluation
Yusuke Hirota, Ryo Hachiuma, Boyi Li +9
Gender bias in vision-language foundation models (VLMs) raises concerns about their safe deployment and is typically evaluated using benchmarks with gender annotations on real-worl…
LOTUS: A Leaderboard for Detailed Image Captioning from Quality to Societal Bias and User Preferences
Yusuke Hirota, Boyi Li, Ryo Hachiuma +7
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have transformed image captioning, shifting from concise captions to detailed descriptions. We introduce LOTUS, a leaderboard for evaluating de…
SANER: Annotation-free Societal Attribute Neutralizer for Debiasing CLIP
Yusuke Hirota, Min-Hung Chen, Chien-Yi Wang +3
Large-scale vision-language models, such as CLIP, are known to contain societal bias regarding protected attributes (e.g., gender, age). This paper aims to address the problems of…
Resampled Datasets Are Not Enough: Mitigating Societal Bias Beyond Single Attributes
Yusuke Hirota, Jerone T. A. Andrews, Dora Zhao +4
We tackle societal bias in image-text datasets by removing spurious correlations between protected groups and image attributes. Traditional methods only target labeled attributes,…
From Descriptive Richness to Bias: Unveiling the Dark Side of Generative Image Caption Enrichment
Yusuke Hirota, Ryo Hachiuma, Chao-Han Huck Yang +1
Large language models (LLMs) have enhanced the capacity of vision-language models to caption visual text. This generative approach to image caption enrichment further makes textual…