Textual data often contain biases that compromise fairness in AI systems, particularly in sensitive areas such as gender, race, and politics. While large language models (LLMs) have shown success across various tasks, they still face limitations due to inherent biases within the models and restrictive safety policies that hinder direct bias mitigation. To overcome these challenges, we propose UMAD (Unsupervised Multi-Agent Debate), a novel framework that leverages a Multi-Agent Debate mechanism alongside Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) to foster more effective discussions among LLMs, facilitating the identification of biases. By combining this with gradient-based interpretation techniques, UMAD extracts token-level bias insights, which are then integrated into models using in-context learning. This enhances the debiasing performance, as shown by our experiments across three bias categories—gender, religion, and politics—using five different LLMs. Our approach demonstrates significant improvements in metrics, with large models matching or even surpassing GPT-4 in Style Accuracy (STA). We release our code at: https://github.com/Couen/UMAD.git .  

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UMAD: Enhancing LLM Debiasing via Multi-agent Debate and Token-Level Bias Interpretation

  • Hanwen Gu,
  • Jie Ma,
  • Ying Qin,
  • Ling Hu

摘要

Textual data often contain biases that compromise fairness in AI systems, particularly in sensitive areas such as gender, race, and politics. While large language models (LLMs) have shown success across various tasks, they still face limitations due to inherent biases within the models and restrictive safety policies that hinder direct bias mitigation. To overcome these challenges, we propose UMAD (Unsupervised Multi-Agent Debate), a novel framework that leverages a Multi-Agent Debate mechanism alongside Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) to foster more effective discussions among LLMs, facilitating the identification of biases. By combining this with gradient-based interpretation techniques, UMAD extracts token-level bias insights, which are then integrated into models using in-context learning. This enhances the debiasing performance, as shown by our experiments across three bias categories—gender, religion, and politics—using five different LLMs. Our approach demonstrates significant improvements in metrics, with large models matching or even surpassing GPT-4 in Style Accuracy (STA). We release our code at: https://github.com/Couen/UMAD.git .