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New framework calibrates NLP models to diverse human values

Researchers have developed a new framework called MC-STL to address the challenge of aligning natural language processing (NLP) systems with diverse human values in subjective tasks. The MC-STL framework clusters annotations into distinct human value groups using three different approaches: similarity of annotator rationales, expert-defined value taxonomies, or rater's sociocultural descriptors. It then calibrates predictions for each value cluster by learning specific embeddings, demonstrating consistent performance improvements over baseline methods that overlook this latent value structure. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohammed Fayiz Parappan, Ricardo Henao ·

    Labels have Human Values: Value Calibration of Subjective Tasks

    arXiv:2601.06631v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building NLP systems for subjective tasks requires one to ensure their alignment to contrasting human values. We propose the MultiCalibrated Subjective Task Learner framework (MC-STL), which clusters annotations into identifiabl…