Can Large Language Models (or Humans) Disentangle Text?

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العنوان: Can Large Language Models (or Humans) Disentangle Text?
المؤلفون: de Pieuchon, Nicolas Audinet, Daoud, Adel, Jerzak, Connor Thomas, Johansson, Moa, Johansson, Richard
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language, 68T50, I.2.7, H.1.2
الوصف: We investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to disentangle text variables--to remove the textual traces of an undesired forbidden variable in a task sometimes known as text distillation and closely related to the fairness in AI and causal inference literature. We employ a range of various LLM approaches in an attempt to disentangle text by identifying and removing information about a target variable while preserving other relevant signals. We show that in the strong test of removing sentiment, the statistical association between the processed text and sentiment is still detectable to machine learning classifiers post-LLM-disentanglement. Furthermore, we find that human annotators also struggle to disentangle sentiment while preserving other semantic content. This suggests there may be limited separability between concept variables in some text contexts, highlighting limitations of methods relying on text-level transformations and also raising questions about the robustness of disentanglement methods that achieve statistical independence in representation space.
Comment: To appear as: Nicolas Audinet de Pieuchon, Adel Daoud, Connor T. Jerzak, Moa Johansson, Richard Johansson. Can Large Language Models (or Humans) Disentangle Text? In: Sixth Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science at NAACL, 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16584
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2403.16584
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv