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Overwriting Pretrained Bias with Finetuning Data
Transfer learning is beneficial by allowing the expressive features of models
pretrained on large-scale datasets to be finetuned for the target task of
smaller, more domain-specific datasets. However, there is a concern that these
pretrained models may come with their own biases which would propagate into the
finetuned model. In this work, we investigate bias when conceptualized as both
spurious correlations between the target task and a sensitive attribute as well
as underrepresentation of a particular group in the dataset. Under both notions
of bias, we find that (1) models finetuned on top of pretrained models can
indeed inherit their biases, but (2) this bias can be corrected for through
relatively minor interventions to the finetuning dataset, and often with a
negligible impact to performance. Our findings imply that careful curation of
the finetuning dataset is important for reducing biases on a downstream task,
and doing so can even compensate for bias in the pretrained model.Comment: ICCV 2023 Ora
Social work education as a catalyst for social change and social development: case study of a Master of Social Work Program in China
In response to the urgent need for professionally trained social workers to help in alleviating emerging social problems in China after the introduction of the market economy, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Peking University launched a Master of Social Work (China) Program for social work educators in 2000, with the aim of developing a critical mass of social work educators to take up the future leadership in developing social work and social work education in China. To date, seven cohorts of over 230 students consisting of social work educators, NGO and government officials have been admitted to the program, and graduates of the program are playing a pivotal role in spearheading the development of social work education and fostering social development through the process. In this paper, the authors will present the vision and mission of the Master of Social Work (MSW) Program, the teaching and learning strategies adopted, and the ways in which the program has facilitated social change and social development through its educational process
Gender Artifacts in Visual Datasets
Gender biases are known to exist within large-scale visual datasets and can
be reflected or even amplified in downstream models. Many prior works have
proposed methods for mitigating gender biases, often by attempting to remove
gender expression information from images. To understand the feasibility and
practicality of these approaches, we investigate what exist within large-scale visual datasets. We define a
as a visual cue that is correlated with gender,
focusing specifically on those cues that are learnable by a modern image
classifier and have an interpretable human corollary. Through our analyses, we
find that gender artifacts are ubiquitous in the COCO and OpenImages datasets,
occurring everywhere from low-level information (e.g., the mean value of the
color channels) to the higher-level composition of the image (e.g., pose and
location of people). Given the prevalence of gender artifacts, we claim that
attempts to remove gender artifacts from such datasets are largely infeasible.
Instead, the responsibility lies with researchers and practitioners to be aware
that the distribution of images within datasets is highly gendered and hence
develop methods which are robust to these distributional shifts across groups.Comment: ICCV 202
Pd-Catalyzed de Novo Assembly of Diversely Substituted Indole-Fused Polyheterocycles
Here we describe a facile, tandem synthetic route for indolo[3,2-c]quinolinones, a class of natural alkaloid analogues of high biological significance. A Ugi four-component reaction with indole-2-carboxylic acid and an aniline followed by a Pd-catalyzed cyclization yields tetracyclic indoloquinolines in good to moderate yields. Commercially available building blocks yield highly diverse analogues in just two simple steps
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Funding AstraZeneca funded the SABINA III study; was involved in the study design, protocol development, study conduct and statistical analysis; and was given the opportunity to review this manuscript before submission. Publication support was provided by Michelle Rebello, PhD, of Cactus Life Sciences and funded by AstraZeneca.Peer reviewedPostprin
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