Mandal, Abhishek ORCID: 0000-0002-5275-4192, Leavy, Susan ORCID: 0000-0002-3679-2279 and Little, Suzanne ORCID: 0000-0003-3281-3471 (2023) Multimodal composite association score: measuring gender bias in generative multimodal models. In: Fourth International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2023), 2 Apr 2023, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 978-3-031-37248-3
Abstract
Generative multimodal models based on diffusion models
have seen tremendous growth and advances in recent years.
Models such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have become
increasingly popular and successful at creating images from
texts, often combining abstract ideas. However, like other
deep learning models, they also reflect social biases they inherit from their training data, which is often crawled from
the internet. Manually auditing models for biases can be very
time and resource consuming and is further complicated by
the unbounded and unconstrained nature of inputs these models can take. Research into bias measurement and quantification has generally focused on small single-stage models
working on a single modality. Thus the emergence of multistage multimodal models requires a different approach. In
this paper, we propose Multimodal Composite Association
Score (MCAS) as a new method of measuring gender bias
in multimodal generative models. Evaluating both DALL-E 2
and Stable Diffusion using this approach uncovered the presence of gendered associations of concepts embedded within
the models. We propose MCAS as an accessible and scalable
method of quantifying potential bias for models with different
modalities and a range of potential biases.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Workshop |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bias; Multimodal Models; Generative Models |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Artificial intelligence Computer Science > Machine learning |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics |
Published in: | Advances in Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval. Communications in Computer and Information Science 1840. Springer Nature Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-031-37248-3 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland |
Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03... |
Copyright Information: | ©2022 The Authors. |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), <A+> Alliance / Women at the Table |
ID Code: | 28902 |
Deposited On: | 14 Aug 2023 10:49 by Abhishek Mandal . Last Modified 14 Aug 2023 10:49 |
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