
Neutralizing Bias in Large Language Models
An innovative approach to mitigate harmful stereotype associations
The Fairness Mediator framework addresses how LLMs perpetuate social biases by neutralizing stereotype associations during inference.
- Targets spurious correlations between biased concepts and specific social groups
- Prevents amplification of harmful social biases embedded in training data
- Projects model embeddings into unbiased spaces without retraining
- Improves fairness while maintaining model performance
This research is critical for security and ethics in AI as it provides a practical solution to reduce discriminatory outputs that could harm vulnerable groups, ensuring more equitable AI applications across diverse populations.
Fairness Mediator: Neutralize Stereotype Associations to Mitigate Bias in Large Language Models