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https://github.com/EleutherAI/concept-erasure
Erasing concepts from neural representations with provable guarantees
https://github.com/EleutherAI/concept-erasure
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Erasing concepts from neural representations with provable guarantees
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/EleutherAI/concept-erasure
- Owner: EleutherAI
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-05-06T06:36:23.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-15T22:46:44.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-17T09:44:01.430Z (4 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 138 KB
- Stars: 204
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 15
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Least-Squares Concept Erasure (LEACE)
Concept erasure aims to remove specified features from a representation. It can be used to improve fairness (e.g. preventing a classifier from using gender or race) and interpretability (e.g. removing a concept to observe changes in model behavior). This is the repo for **LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE)**, a closed-form method which provably prevents all linear classifiers from detecting a concept while inflicting the least possible damage to the representation. You can check out the paper [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03819).
# Installation
We require Python 3.10 or later. You can install the package from PyPI:
```bash
pip install concept-erasure
```
# Usage
The two main classes in this repo are `LeaceFitter` and `LeaceEraser`.
- `LeaceFitter` keeps track of the covariance and cross-covariance statistics needed to compute the LEACE erasure function. These statistics can be updated in an incremental fashion with `LeaceFitter.update()`. The erasure function is lazily computed when the `.eraser` property is accessed. This class uses O(_d2_) memory, where _d_ is the dimensionality of the representation, so you may want to discard it after computing the erasure function.
- `LeaceEraser` is a compact representation of the LEACE erasure function, using only O(_dk_) memory, where _k_ is the number of classes in the concept you're trying to erase (or equivalently, the _dimensionality_ of the concept if it's not categorical).
## Batch usage
In most cases, you probably have a batch of feature vectors `X` and concept labels `Z` and want to erase the concept from `X`. The easiest way to do this is by using the `LeaceEraser.fit()` convenience method:
```python
import torch
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from concept_erasure import LeaceEraser
n, d, k = 2048, 128, 2
X, Y = make_classification(
n_samples=n,
n_features=d,
n_classes=k,
random_state=42,
)
X_t = torch.from_numpy(X)
Y_t = torch.from_numpy(Y)
# Logistic regression does learn something before concept erasure
real_lr = LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000).fit(X, Y)
beta = torch.from_numpy(real_lr.coef_)
assert beta.norm(p=torch.inf) > 0.1
eraser = LeaceEraser.fit(X_t, Y_t)
X_ = eraser(X_t)
# But learns nothing after
null_lr = LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000, tol=0.0).fit(X_.numpy(), Y)
beta = torch.from_numpy(null_lr.coef_)
assert beta.norm(p=torch.inf) < 1e-4
```
## Streaming usage
If you have a **stream** of data, you can use `LeaceFitter.update()` to update the statistics. This is useful if you have a large dataset and want to avoid storing it all in memory.
```python
from concept_erasure import LeaceFitter
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
import torch
n, d, k = 2048, 128, 2
X, Y = make_classification(
n_samples=n,
n_features=d,
n_classes=k,
random_state=42,
)
X_t = torch.from_numpy(X)
Y_t = torch.from_numpy(Y)
fitter = LeaceFitter(d, 1, dtype=X_t.dtype)
# Compute cross-covariance matrix using batched updates
for x, y in zip(X_t.chunk(2), Y_t.chunk(2)):
fitter.update(x, y)
# Erase the concept from the data
x_ = fitter.eraser(X_t[0])
```
# Paper replication
Scripts used to generate the part-of-speech tags for the concept scrubbing experiments can be found in [this repo](https://github.com/EleutherAI/tagged-pile). We plan to upload the tagged datasets to the HuggingFace Hub shortly.
## Concept scrubbing
The concept scrubbing code is a bit messy right now, and will probably be refactored soon. We found it necessary to write bespoke implementations for different HuggingFace model families. So far we've implemented LLaMA and GPT-NeoX. These can be found in the `concept_erasure.scrubbing` submodule.