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When Debiasing Backfires: Counterintuitive Side Effects of Preprocessing-Based Stereotype Mitigation

arXiv:2607.07937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preprocessing-based methods for stereotype mitigation, such as pre-/post-training on debiased corpora, are widely used in NLP. While these approaches reduce measurable stereotypes for targeted groups, we find they often induce unintended shifts-side effects, where stereot