@inproceedings{majumder-etal-2023-interfair,
    title = "{I}nter{F}air: Debiasing with Natural Language Feedback for Fair Interpretable Predictions",
    author = "Majumder, Bodhisattwa  and
      He, Zexue  and
      McAuley, Julian",
    editor = "Bouamor, Houda  and
      Pino, Juan  and
      Bali, Kalika",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2023.emnlp-main.589/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.589",
    pages = "9466--9471",
    abstract = "Debiasing methods in NLP models traditionally focus on isolating information related to a sensitive attribute (e.g., gender or race). We instead argue that a favorable debiasing method should use sensitive information `fairly,' with explanations, rather than blindly eliminating it. This fair balance is often subjective and can be challenging to achieve algorithmically. We explore two interactive setups with a frozen predictive model and show that users able to provide feedback can achieve a better and \textit{fairer} balance between task performance and bias mitigation. In one setup, users, by interacting with test examples, further decreased bias in the explanations (5-8{\%}) while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. In the other setup, human feedback was able to disentangle associated bias and predictive information from the input leading to superior bias mitigation and improved task performance (4-5{\%}) simultaneously."
}