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title = "The Trade-off between Performance, Efficiency, and Fairness in Adapter Modules for Text Classification",
author = "Bui, Minh Duc and
Von Der Wense, Katharina",
editor = "Ovalle, Anaelia and
Chang, Kai-Wei and
Cao, Yang Trista and
Mehrabi, Ninareh and
Zhao, Jieyu and
Galstyan, Aram and
Dhamala, Jwala and
Kumar, Anoop and
Gupta, Rahul",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP 2024)",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.trustnlp-1.4",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.trustnlp-1.4",
pages = "40--50",
abstract = "Current natural language processing (NLP) research tends to focus on only one or, less frequently, two dimensions {--} e.g., performance, interpretability, or efficiency {--} at a time, which may lead to suboptimal conclusions. Work on adapter modulesfocuses on improving performance and efficiency, with no investigation of unintended consequences on other aspects such as fairness. To address this gap, we conduct experiments on three text classification datasets by either (1) finetuning all parameters or (2) using adapter modules. Regarding performance and efficiency, we confirm prior findings that the accuracy of adapter-enhanced models is roughly on par with that of fully finetuned models, while training time is substantially reduced. Regarding fairness, we show that adapter modules result in mixed fairness across sensitive groups. Further investigation reveals that, when the standard finetuned model exhibits limited biases, adapter modules typically do not introduce extra bias. On the other hand, when the finetuned model exhibits increased bias, the use of adapter modules poses the potential danger of amplifying these biases to a significant extent. Our findings highlight the need for a case-by-case evaluation rather than a one-size-fits-all judgment.",
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%T The Trade-off between Performance, Efficiency, and Fairness in Adapter Modules for Text Classification
%A Bui, Minh Duc
%A Von Der Wense, Katharina
%Y Ovalle, Anaelia
%Y Chang, Kai-Wei
%Y Cao, Yang Trista
%Y Mehrabi, Ninareh
%Y Zhao, Jieyu
%Y Galstyan, Aram
%Y Dhamala, Jwala
%Y Kumar, Anoop
%Y Gupta, Rahul
%S Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP 2024)
%D 2024
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Mexico City, Mexico
%F bui-von-der-wense-2024-trade
%X Current natural language processing (NLP) research tends to focus on only one or, less frequently, two dimensions – e.g., performance, interpretability, or efficiency – at a time, which may lead to suboptimal conclusions. Work on adapter modulesfocuses on improving performance and efficiency, with no investigation of unintended consequences on other aspects such as fairness. To address this gap, we conduct experiments on three text classification datasets by either (1) finetuning all parameters or (2) using adapter modules. Regarding performance and efficiency, we confirm prior findings that the accuracy of adapter-enhanced models is roughly on par with that of fully finetuned models, while training time is substantially reduced. Regarding fairness, we show that adapter modules result in mixed fairness across sensitive groups. Further investigation reveals that, when the standard finetuned model exhibits limited biases, adapter modules typically do not introduce extra bias. On the other hand, when the finetuned model exhibits increased bias, the use of adapter modules poses the potential danger of amplifying these biases to a significant extent. Our findings highlight the need for a case-by-case evaluation rather than a one-size-fits-all judgment.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.trustnlp-1.4
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.trustnlp-1.4
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.trustnlp-1.4
%P 40-50
Markdown (Informal)
[The Trade-off between Performance, Efficiency, and Fairness in Adapter Modules for Text Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2024.trustnlp-1.4) (Bui & Von Der Wense, TrustNLP-WS 2024)
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