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    Safety, alignment & interpretability· 2016

    Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

    Tolga Bolukbasi (first author) · 2016

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    arXiv 1607.06520OpenAlex W2483215953

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    Why it matters

    Exposed gender stereotypes in word embeddings and introduced influential debiasing techniques.

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    First released
    2016 (from arXiv 1607.06520)
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    3,935 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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    0.503 · computed rank 231 · consensus 0.64, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.745 (2010s · safety), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

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