What Happens to a Dataset Transformed by a Projection-based Concept Removal Method?

Richard Johansson


Abstract
We investigate the behavior of methods using linear projections to remove information about a concept from a language representation, and we consider the question of what happens to a dataset transformed by such a method. A theoretical analysis and experiments on real-world and synthetic data show that these methods inject strong statistical dependencies into the transformed datasets. After applying such a method, the representation space is highly structured: in the transformed space, an instance tends to be located near instances of the opposite label. As a consequence, the original labeling can in some cases be reconstructed by applying an anti-clustering method.
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2024.lrec-main.1520
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
Year:
2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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17486–17492
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1520/
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Richard Johansson. 2024. What Happens to a Dataset Transformed by a Projection-based Concept Removal Method?. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 17486–17492, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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What Happens to a Dataset Transformed by a Projection-based Concept Removal Method? (Johansson, LREC-COLING 2024)
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