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pretty_name: Folktexts real-world unrealizable classification tasks
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# Dataset Card for `folktexts` <!-- omit in toc -->
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- [Dataset Details](#dataset-details)
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- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
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- [Dataset Sources](#dataset-sources)
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- [Uses](#uses)
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- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
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- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
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- [Source Data](#source-data)
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- [Citation](#citation)
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- [More Information](#more-information)
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- [Dataset Card Authors](#dataset-card-authors)
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[Folktexts](https://github.com/socialfoundations/folktexts) is a suite of Q&A
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datasets with natural outcome uncertainty, aimed at evaluating LLMs' calibration
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on unrealizable tasks.
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The *folktexts* datasets are derived from US Census data products.
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Namely, the datasets made available here are derived from the
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[2018 Public Use Microdata Sample](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/documentation/2018.html)
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(PUMS). Individual features are mapped to natural text using the respective
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[codebook](https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/tech_docs/pums/data_dict/PUMS_Data_Dictionary_2018.pdf).
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Each task relates to predicting different individual
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characteristics (e.g., income, employment) from a set of demographic features
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(e.g., age, race, education, occupation).
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Importantly, every task has natural outcome uncertainty. That is, in general,
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the features describing each row do not uniquely determine the task's label.
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For calibrated models to perform well on this task, the model must correctly
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output nuanced scores between 0 and 1, instead of simply outputting discrete
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labels 0 or 1.
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Namely, we make available the following tasks in natural language Q&A format:
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- `ACSIncome`: Predict whether a working adult earns above $50,000 yearly.
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- `ACSEmployment`: Predict whether an adult is an employed civilian.
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- `ACSPublicCoverage`: Predict individual public health insurance coverage.
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- `ACSMobility`: Predict whether an individual changed address within the last year.
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- `ACSTravelTime`: Predict whether an employed adult has a work commute time longer than 20 minutes.
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These tasks follow the same naming and feature/target columns as the
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[folktables](https://github.com/socialfoundations/folktables)
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tabular datasets proposed by
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[Ding et al. (2021)](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2021/file/32e54441e6382a7fbacbbbaf3c450059-Paper.pdf).
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The folktables tabular datasets have seen prevalent use in the algorithmic
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fairness and distribution shift communities. We make available natural language
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Q&A versions of these tasks.
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The datasets are made available in standard multiple-choice Q&A format (columns
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`question`, `choices`, `answer`, `answer_key`, and `choice_question_prompt`), as
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well as in numeric Q&A format (columns `numeric_question`,
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`numeric_question_prompt`, and `label`).
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The numeric prompting (also known as *verbalized prompting*) is known to improve
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calibration of zero-shot LLM risk scores
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[[Tian et al., EMNLP 2023](https://openreview.net/forum?id=g3faCfrwm7);
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[Cruz et al., NeurIPS 2024](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14614)].
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**The accompanying [`folktexts` python package](https://github.com/socialfoundations/folktexts)
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eases customization, evaluation, and benchmarking with these datasets.**
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## Dataset Details
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### Dataset Description
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- **Language(s) (NLP):** English
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- **License:** Code is licensed under the MIT license; Data license is governed by the U.S. Census Bureau [terms of service](https://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html).
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### Dataset Sources
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- **Repository:** https://github.com/socialfoundations/folktexts
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- **Paper:** https://openreview.net/forum?id=qrZxL3Bto9
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- **Data source:** [2018 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/documentation/2018.html)
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## Uses
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The datasets were originally used to evaluate LLMs' ability to produce
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calibrated and accurate risk scores in the [Cruz et al. (2024)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14614) paper.
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Other potential uses include evaluating the fairness of LLMs' decisions,
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as individual rows feature protected demographic attributes such as `sex` and
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`race`.
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## Dataset Structure
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<!-- This section provides a description of the dataset fields, and additional information about the dataset structure such as criteria used to create the splits, relationships between data points, etc. -->
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[More Information Needed]
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**TODO!**
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## Dataset Creation
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### Source Data
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The datasets are based on publicly available data from the American Community
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Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), namely the
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[2018 ACS 1-year PUMS files](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/documentation.2018.html#list-tab-1370939201).
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#### Data Collection and Processing
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The categorical values were mapped to meaningful natural language
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representations using the `folktexts` package, which in turn uses the official
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[ACS PUMS codebook](https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/tech_docs/pums/data_dict/PUMS_Data_Dictionary_2018.pdf).
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The data download and processing was aided by the `folktables` python package,
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which in turn uses the official US Census web API.
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#### Who are the source data producers?
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U.S. Census Bureau.
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## Citation
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**BibTeX:**
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```bib
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@inproceedings{
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cruz2024evaluating,
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title={Evaluating language models as risk scores},
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author={Andr{\'e} F Cruz and Moritz Hardt and Celestine Mendler-D{\"u}nner},
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booktitle={The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
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year={2024},
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url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=qrZxL3Bto9}
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}
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```
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## More Information
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More information is available in the [`folktexts` package repository](https://github.com/socialfoundations/folktexts)
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as well as in the [Cruz et al., NeurIPS 2024](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14614).
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## Dataset Card Authors
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[André F. Cruz](https://github.com/andrefcruz)
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