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Bias Mitigation

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RESEARCHarXiv CS.CL·4/13/2026

A Representation-Level Assessment of Bias Mitigation in Foundation Models

This research investigates how bias mitigation reshapes the embedding space of encoder-only and decoder-only foundation models like BERT and Llama2. Findings show that bias mitigation reduces gender-occupation disparities in the embedding space, leading to more neutral internal representations, confirming embedding analysis as a valuable debiasing validation tool.

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RESEARCHarXiv CS.AI·4/25/2026

Who Defines Fairness? Target-Based Prompting for Demographic Representation in Generative Models

This paper proposes a lightweight, inference-time framework to mitigate demographic representational bias in text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion, without requiring model retraining. The approach allows users to select their own fairness specifications to generate more equitable outputs across professions.

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