Paper 1: Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence
Title: Mitigating Bias in Large Language Models: A Novel Adversarial
Debiasing Framework for Enhanced Fairness in Text Generation
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable
capabilities in text generation but are notoriously prone to amplifying
societal biases present in their training data. This paper proposes a novel
adversarial debiasing framework, FairGen, designed to reduce gender and
racial biases in LLM outputs without significant loss in linguistic quality or
task performance. We introduce an adversarial discriminator network that is
trained simultaneously with the language model to identify biased language.
The primary model is then penalized not only for task-specific errors but also
for successfully generating text that the discriminator flags as biased. We
evaluate FairGen on standard benchmarks (e.g., StereoSet, CrowS-Pairs) and
demonstrate a 40% reduction in measured bias compared to baseline
models like GPT-2, while maintaining competitive performance on
downstream tasks like text summarization and dialogue generation. This
work provides a scalable and effective method for creating more equitable AI
systems.
Outline:
1. Introduction: The problem of bias in AI; focus on LLMs and their societal
impact.
2. Literature Review: Overview of existing debiasing techniques (e.g., data
filtering, counterfactual data augmentation, reinforcement learning from
human feedback).
3. Methodology:
o Architecture of the proposed FairGen framework (Generator: LLM,
Discriminator: CNN/Transformer classifier).
o Detailed explanation of the adversarial training loop and loss functions.
o Description of datasets used for training and evaluation.
4. Experiments & Results:
o Baseline models selected for comparison.
o Quantitative results on bias benchmarks (tables showing bias scores).
o Quantitative results on language quality and task performance (perplexity,
BLEU scores, task accuracy).
o Qualitative analysis: examples of generated text before and after debiasing.
5. Discussion: Interpretation of results; limitations of the approach (e.g.,
computational overhead, potential for "fairness taxes"); types of bias not
addressed.
6. Conclusion & Future Work: Summary of contributions; potential for
applying FairGen to multimodal models and other domains.