arXiv Computation and Language By Adnan Al Ali, Jind\v{r}ich Libovick\'y, Anne Lauscher

Bias Mitigation in Audio-Enabled LLMs through Adversarial Training and Distillation Methods

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The paper presents methods to reduce gender bias in audio‑enabled large language models (AuLLMs) by using adversarial training to unlearn gender perception without harming performance on other tasks. It also introduces a distillation approach that retains gender awareness but aligns responses with a gender‑agnostic teacher unless explicitly prompted. Experiments on three AuLLMs show promising results for gender‑unlearning and partial success for the distillation technique.

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