Reinforcement Guided Multi-Task Learning Framework for Low-Resource Stereotype Detection
Rajkumar Pujari, Erik Oveson, Priyanka Kulkarni, Elnaz Nouri
Abstract
As large Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) trained on large amounts of data in an unsupervised manner become more ubiquitous, identifying various types of bias in the text has come into sharp focus. Existing ‘Stereotype Detection’ datasets mainly adopt a diagnostic approach toward large PLMs. Blodgett et. al. (2021) show that there are significant reliability issues with the existing benchmark datasets. Annotating a reliable dataset requires a precise understanding of the subtle nuances of how stereotypes manifest in text. In this paper, we annotate a focused evaluation set for ‘Stereotype Detection’ that addresses those pitfalls by de-constructing various ways in which stereotypes manifest in text. Further, we present a multi-task model that leverages the abundance of data-rich neighboring tasks such as hate speech detection, offensive language detection, misogyny detection, etc., to improve the empirical performance on ‘Stereotype Detection’. We then propose a reinforcement-learning agent that guides the multi-task learning model by learning to identify the training examples from the neighboring tasks that help the target task the most. We show that the proposed models achieve significant empirical gains over existing baselines on all the tasks.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.acl-long.462
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 6703–6712
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.462
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.462
- Cite (ACL):
- Rajkumar Pujari, Erik Oveson, Priyanka Kulkarni, and Elnaz Nouri. 2022. Reinforcement Guided Multi-Task Learning Framework for Low-Resource Stereotype Detection. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6703–6712, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Reinforcement Guided Multi-Task Learning Framework for Low-Resource Stereotype Detection (Pujari et al., ACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/2022.acl-long.462.pdf
- Code
- pujari-rajkumar/rl-guided-multitask-learning
- Data
- CrowS-Pairs, Hate Speech, Hate Speech and Offensive Language, StereoSet