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Shahed Masoudian

3 accepted papers

2024

ScaLearn: Simple and Highly Parameter-Efficient Task Transfer by Learning to Scale

ACL 2024findings

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown considerable practical benefits, particularly when using language models (LMs). While this is commonly achieved by learning tasks under a joint optimization procedure, some methods, such as AdapterFusion, divide the problem into two stages: (i) task learning, wher…

2024

Unlabeled Debiasing in Downstream Tasks via Class-wise Low Variance Regularization

EMNLP 2024main

Language models frequently inherit societal biases from their training data. Numerous techniques have been proposed to mitigate these biases during both the pre-training and fine-tuning stages. However, fine-tuning a pre-trained debiased language model on a downstream task can reintroduce biases int…

2023

Modular and On-demand Bias Mitigation with Attribute-Removal Subnetworks

ACL 2023findings

Societal biases are reflected in large pre-trained language models and their fine-tuned versions on downstream tasks. Common in-processing bias mitigation approaches, such as adversarial training and mutual information removal, introduce additional optimization criteria, and update the model to reac…