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Milad Afshari

2 accepted papers

2025

Obliviator Reveals the Cost of Nonlinear Guardedness in Concept Erasure

NeurIPS 2025poster

Concept erasure aims to remove unwanted attributes, such as social or demographic factors, from learned representations, while preserving their task-relevant utility. While the goal of concept erasure is protection against all adversaries, existing methods remain vulnerable to nonlinear ones. This v…

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2024

Towards Understanding Task-agnostic Debiasing Through the Lenses of Intrinsic Bias and Forgetfulness

ACL 2024findings

While task-agnostic debiasing provides notable generalizability and reduced reliance on downstream data, its impact on language modeling ability and the risk of relearning social biases from downstream task-specific data remain as the two most significant challenges when debiasing Pretrained Languag…