Mandal, Abhishek ORCID: 0000-0002-5275-4192, Little, Suzanne ORCID: 0000-0003-3281-3471 and Leavy, Susan ORCID: 0000-0002-3679-2279 (2023) Multimodal bias: assessing gender bias in computer vision models with NLP techniques. In: 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '23), 9-13 Oct 2023, Paris. ISBN 979-8-4007-0055-2
Abstract
Large multimodal deep learning models such as Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) have become increasingly powerful with applications across several domains in recent years. CLIP works on visual and language modalities and forms a part of several popular models, such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. It is trained on a large dataset of millions of image-text pairs crawled from the internet. Such large datasets are often used for training purposes without filtering, leading to models inheriting social biases from internet data. Given that models such as CLIP are being applied in such a wide variety of applications ranging from social media to education, it is vital that harmful biases are detected. However, due to the unbounded nature of the possible inputs and outputs, traditional bias metrics such as accuracy cannot detect the range and complexity of biases present in the model. In this paper, we present an audit of CLIP using an established technique from natural language processing called Word Embeddings Association Test (WEAT) to detect and quantify gender bias in CLIP and demonstrate that it can provide a quantifiable measure of such stereotypical associations. We detected, measured, and visualised various types of stereotypical gender associations with respect to character descriptions and occupations and found that CLIP shows evidence of stereotypical gender bias.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | bias; fairness; multimodal models; trustworthiness |
Subjects: | 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: | Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '23). . Association for Computer Machinery (ACM). ISBN 979-8-4007-0055-2 |
Publisher: | Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3577190.3614156 |
Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Authors. |
Funders: | <A+> Alliance / Women at the Table as an Inaugural Tech Fellow 2020/2021., Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289_2, European Regional Development Fund |
ID Code: | 29468 |
Deposited On: | 19 Jan 2024 10:57 by Abhishek Mandal . Last Modified 19 Jan 2024 10:57 |
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