arXiv Machine Learning

FairLMs: A Turnkey Library for Fairness in Language Models

FairLMs is a Python library designed to streamline fairness research in language models by unifying bias measurement, mitigation, and evaluation evidence. It offers 33 intrinsic and extrinsic metrics, 14 mitigation components across four intervention categories, 14 diagnostic tools, adapters for major Transformer architectures and hosted APIs, and benchmark loaders. The library enforces explicit declarations of model capabilities and input requirements, ensuring compatibility and reproducibility across components and datasets.

arXiv AI
Sep 17

FairCompressAgent: An Agentic Framework for Fairness-Aware Model Compression for FPGA Deployment

FairCompressAgent (FCA) is an agentic framework that unifies fairness-aware pruning, incremental quantization, and sparse low‑rank factorization for FPGA deployment. A language‑model planner selects compression configurations based on model profiles and measured outcomes, while an execution layer handles compression, fine‑tuning, evaluation, and constraint‑based selection. Experiments on Fitzpatrick‑17k with VGG‑11 show FCA can reduce inference tensor storage by 59.54% under accuracy constraints, improve validation average precision, and lower equalized opportunity, achieving similar results to one‑shot planning with fewer candidate evaluations.

By Yuanbo Guo, Yiyu Shi
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Position: Fairness Failure in Generative Models is an Evaluation Problem

The paper argues that fairness failures in generative models arise mainly from inadequate evaluation practices, making fairness findings hard to compare or use for deployment. It diagnoses common empirical and conceptual shortcomings in current methods and calls for a move toward standardized, generative‑specific evaluation. The authors introduce Fairness Cards, a minimal reporting artifact that explicitly documents evaluation choices—such as prompt families, counterfactual protocols, metrics, and refusal handling—to improve reproducibility, comparability, and accountability.

By Mariia Vladimirova, Jean-Yves Franceschi, Thibaut Issenhuth
arXiv AI
Jul 13

A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English

arXiv:2607. 09424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Soofi S 30B-A3B, a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid Mamba Transformer foundation model for German and English.

By The Soofi-Team, :, Benedikt Droste, David Fitzek, Ruben H\"arle, Lukas Helff, Maximilian Idahl, Alex Jude, Abbas Goher Khan, Maurice Kraus, Timm Ruland, Richard Rutmann, Sebastian Sztwiertnia, Markus Frey, Daniil Gurgurov, Jan Pfister, Tom R\"ohr, Sebastian von Rohrscheidt, J\"org Bienert, Nicolas Flores-Herr, Simon Gottschalk, Andreas Hotho, Kristian Kersting, Joachim K\"ohler, Alexander L\"oser, Wolfgang Nejdl, Simon Ostermann, Jan Plogsties, Patrick Putzky, Mehdi Ali, Michael Fromm, Max L\"ubbering
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Let's Unlearn Stereotypes Before Decision-Making: Assessing the Impact of Intrinsic Bias Mitigation on Downstream Fairness in LLMs

arXiv:2509. 16462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems, where biased predictions can reinforce social and economic disparities.

By Mina Arzaghi, Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah, Florian Carichon, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Plante, Golnoosh Farnadi
arXiv AI
Sep 18

The AR Fairness Metamodel: A Structured Framework for Fairness Measures

The paper introduces the AR Fairness Metamodel, a structured framework for representing, analyzing, and comparing fairness scenarios. It incorporates key elements such as agents, resources, and their attributes, and supports both discrete and continuous fairness measures—including equality, equity, group fairness, individual fairness, the Gini index, the Theil index, Jain's fairness index, and a specific measure for Australia's Child Care Subsidy. The metamodel builds on the Tiles framework, offering modular components that can be connected to capture diverse fairness definitions, and includes formal proofs of relationships among group fairness, individual fairness, and envy‑freeness. An open‑source implementation of the Tiles framework is provided to facilitate practical fairness modeling and evaluation across various applications.

By Julian Alfredo Mendez, Timotheus Kampik