arxiv: 2605.02348 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-04 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.LG

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Decoding-Time Debiasing via Process Reward Models: From Controlled Fill-in to Open-Ended Generation

Muneeb Ur Raheem Khan

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classification 💻 cs.CL cs.LG

keywords decoding-time debiasingprocess reward modelsocial bias mitigationlarge language modelssequential debiasingopen-ended generationbilingual benchmark

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Sequential debiasing at decoding time using a Process Reward Model raises fairness scores by up to 0.40 while preserving fluency.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Large language models absorb social biases from their training data and reproduce them in outputs about gender, race, religion and other categories. This paper tests whether those biases can be reduced after training by letting a separate Process Reward Model score every candidate next token for both fairness and naturalness during generation. Three schemes of increasing structure are compared on a bilingual benchmark of 200 prompts in English and Urdu that cover eight bias types, using four different generator models. The sequential critique-and-revise scheme delivers the largest measured gains. The same token-by-token approach is then extended to fully open-ended generation with a selective gate that activates the judge only on risky words.

Core claim

Bias can be mitigated at decoding time by treating generation as a search over tokens guided by an external Process Reward Model that scores each candidate for reduced bias and preserved fluency. Of the three schemes examined—Best-of-N selection, sequential critique-and-revise, and constitutional self-audit—the sequential method produces the strongest improvement, lifting mean bias scores by up to 0.40 above baseline while fluency remains intact or improves. The framework scales across GPT-4o-mini and three smaller open models on the bilingual test set. When moved to open-ended generation, a lightweight Bias Guard restricts the judge to potentially biased tokens, keeping total overhead near

What carries the argument

Process Reward Model acting as an external judge that scores candidate tokens for fairness and fluency during the decoding search.

If this is right

Bias mitigation becomes available for any model without retraining or access to internal weights.
The same token-level intervention works for both constrained fill-in tasks and unconstrained open-ended text.
A selective gate can limit added computation to roughly 2x baseline cost on calibrated models.
Generator cost and judge cost can be measured separately with a formal overhead metric.
The approach scales with the capability of the underlying generator model.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The method could be paired with other reward models to enforce multiple goals such as truthfulness or reduced toxicity at the same time.
If Process Reward Models generalize well, similar decoding-time gates might be applied to control other unwanted generation patterns.
Extending the bilingual test set to additional languages would show whether the fairness judgments transfer beyond English and Urdu.
The overhead accounting could guide deployment decisions on whether the fairness gain justifies the extra compute in production systems.

Load-bearing premise

An independently trained Process Reward Model can reliably detect and penalize biased content across languages and categories without introducing new biases or needing data that matches the generator.

What would settle it

If human raters judge the outputs produced after sequential debiasing as more biased than the original baseline outputs on the same prompts, or if bias scores show no correlation with independent human fairness labels, the effectiveness claim would not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02348 by Muneeb Ur Raheem Khan.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of the three decoding-time debiasing schemes. All schemes share the view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Best-of-N in detail. The generator performs view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Sequential critique-and-revise. Starting from an initial token, the judge issues a view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Constitutional self-audit. A fairness constitution of 8 principles is embedded in the view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Open-ended generation with the Bias Guard gate over four token steps. At each step view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Single-word results for GPT-4o-mini. Left: bias score; right: utility score. Sequential view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Mean bias score by category and method (English, averaged over 4 models). Sequential view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Open generation results for GPT-4o-mini (20 words, 10 prompts). Dashed line shows view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Bias-utility tradeoff for all 7 schemes on GPT-4o-mini. Sequential and Constitutional view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Open generation bias by category and scheme (GPT-4o-mini). Green = fair, red = view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Generator overhead vs. bias gain (open generation, all 4 models). Sequential (green) view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Bias Guard gate firing rate per model (select-opt scheme). Gemma 3’s 95% firing view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: Generated continuations (20 words) for the gender/role prompt, GPT-4o-mini. Green view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: Bias score across all 4 models, 4 methods, and 2 languages (single-word fill-in). view at source ↗

**Figure 15.** Figure 15: Utility score across all 4 models, 4 methods, and 2 languages (single-word fill-in). view at source ↗

**Figure 16.** Figure 16: Mean bias score by category and method (Urdu, averaged over 4 models). view at source ↗

**Figure 17.** Figure 17: Open generation bias scores across all 4 models and 7 schemes. view at source ↗

**Figure 18.** Figure 18: Open generation utility scores across all 4 models and 7 schemes. view at source ↗

**Figure 19.** Figure 19: Bias-utility tradeoff for all 4 models (open generation). Each subplot shows one view at source ↗

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Large language models pick up social biases from the data they are trained on and carry those biases into downstream applications, often reinforcing stereotypes around gender, race, religion, disability, age, and socioeconomic status. The standard fixes (retraining on curated data or fine-tuning with human feedback) are expensive, need access to model weights, and risk degrading the model on other tasks. In this paper we take a different route: we debias the model at decoding time, treating bias mitigation as a structured search over candidate tokens without ever touching model weights. A separate Process Reward Model (PRM) acts as a judge, scoring each candidate for both fairness and fluency. We design three schemes of increasing sophistication (Best-of-N selection, Sequential critique-and-revise, and Constitutional self-audit) and evaluate them on four models (GPT-4o-mini, Llama 3.2 3B, Gemma 3 4B, Qwen 2.5 3B) across a 200-prompt bilingual benchmark in English and Urdu covering eight bias categories. Sequential debiasing proves the most effective, raising mean bias scores by up to +0.40 over baseline while preserving (and sometimes improving) fluency. We then extend all three schemes to open-ended generation, where each token is debiased on the fly, and introduce a lightweight Bias Guard gate that fires only on potentially biased words, keeping overhead near 2x for well-calibrated models. A formal overhead metric that separates generator cost from judge cost reveals that Best-of-N is effectively free on the generator side in a native implementation. GPT-4o-mini, included as a strong proprietary anchor, confirms that the framework scales with model capability; the three open-weight models show where current small-scale LLMs still struggle.

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This paper tries a decoding-time fix for LLM bias using process reward models on a bilingual benchmark, but the gains rest on an undescribed PRM whose reliability is not shown.

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The main point is a set of decoding-time schemes that use a separate process reward model to score and steer token choices toward lower bias while keeping fluency. They test Best-of-N, sequential critique-and-revise, and constitutional self-audit on four models including small open-weight ones, then extend the idea to open-ended generation with a Bias Guard gate that only triggers on risky tokens. The sequential version gets the largest reported lift, around 0.40 on their mean bias score, and they claim overhead stays near 2x with the gate in place. The overhead split between generator and judge is a useful detail for anyone thinking about real deployment costs. The bilingual English-Urdu benchmark across eight categories is also a step beyond the usual English-only tests. What the work does cleanly is treat bias mitigation as structured search at inference time rather than another round of fine-tuning. That framing is direct and avoids the usual retraining expense. The soft spots are bigger than minor. Everything turns on the process reward model producing fair, consistent scores that generalize to Urdu and all the bias types without introducing its own skew. The abstract gives no training data, language balance, validation procedure, or checks against distribution shift, so the measured improvement could be an artifact of how the PRM was built. The bias metric construction and any statistical controls are also absent, which makes the quantitative claims hard to evaluate. This is aimed at people who need quick, weight-free interventions for deployed models and who work with multilingual text. A reader already using reward models for alignment might pick up the three schemes and the gate idea. I would send it for peer review because the practical framing and the bilingual test are worth referee time, but the reviewers will need to see full details on the PRM and the scoring method before the results can be trusted.

Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents a decoding-time debiasing framework for LLMs that employs a Process Reward Model (PRM) to guide token selection in three schemes of increasing complexity: Best-of-N, sequential critique-and-revise, and constitutional self-audit. Evaluated on GPT-4o-mini, Llama 3.2 3B, Gemma 3 4B, and Qwen 2.5 3B using a 200-prompt bilingual (English-Urdu) benchmark spanning eight bias categories, the sequential approach yields up to +0.40 mean bias score improvement while preserving fluency. The framework is extended to open-ended generation with a lightweight Bias Guard gate to minimize overhead to approximately 2x.

Significance. If the core results hold after addressing methodological gaps, this offers a practical inference-time alternative to retraining or fine-tuning for bias mitigation, avoiding weight access and preserving general capabilities. Strengths include the bilingual benchmark design, the formal overhead metric separating generator and judge costs, the scaling observation with GPT-4o-mini, and the extension to open-ended generation; these could enable deployment on both open and proprietary models if the PRM independence is demonstrated.

major comments (3)

Abstract: The claim that sequential debiasing raises mean bias scores by up to +0.40 while preserving fluency cannot be assessed because the abstract (and implied methods) provides no details on bias metric construction, statistical tests, PRM training data/procedure, language balance, or controls for PRM-induced artifacts; this directly undermines verification of the central quantitative result.
PRM usage across schemes: All three debiasing schemes and the open-ended extension rely on the PRM as the sole token-level fairness judge, yet no information is given on its training distribution, human validation of judgments, or consistency across English/Urdu and the eight categories; any mismatch would make the reported gains an artifact of PRM idiosyncrasies rather than genuine debiasing.
Open-ended generation extension: The Bias Guard gate is introduced to fire only on potentially biased words and keep overhead near 2x, but without specification of its calibration criteria, decision threshold, or empirical validation against full PRM application, the overhead and effectiveness claims for open-ended settings remain unsubstantiated.

minor comments (1)

Abstract: The 'formal overhead metric' is referenced as a contribution but not defined or exemplified, reducing clarity on how generator versus judge costs are separated.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's insightful comments, which highlight areas where the manuscript can be improved for clarity and completeness. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that will strengthen the paper.

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Referee: Abstract: The claim that sequential debiasing raises mean bias scores by up to +0.40 while preserving fluency cannot be assessed because the abstract (and implied methods) provides no details on bias metric construction, statistical tests, PRM training data/procedure, language balance, or controls for PRM-induced artifacts; this directly undermines verification of the central quantitative result.

Authors: We agree that the abstract lacks sufficient methodological context to fully support the quantitative claims. In the revised manuscript, we will expand the abstract to include brief descriptions of the bias metric construction, the statistical tests performed, the PRM training data and procedure, the English-Urdu balance in the benchmark, and controls for potential artifacts. This will allow readers to assess the reported improvements directly from the abstract while referring to the detailed Methods section for full information. revision: yes
Referee: PRM usage across schemes: All three debiasing schemes and the open-ended extension rely on the PRM as the sole token-level fairness judge, yet no information is given on its training distribution, human validation of judgments, or consistency across English/Urdu and the eight categories; any mismatch would make the reported gains an artifact of PRM idiosyncrasies rather than genuine debiasing.

Authors: The referee correctly identifies a gap in the presentation of the PRM. While some aspects of its usage are described in the Methods, we will revise the manuscript to explicitly detail the training distribution, include results from human validation of the PRM judgments, and report consistency metrics across English/Urdu and the eight bias categories. This addition will help demonstrate that the gains arise from genuine debiasing. revision: yes
Referee: Open-ended generation extension: The Bias Guard gate is introduced to fire only on potentially biased words and keep overhead near 2x, but without specification of its calibration criteria, decision threshold, or empirical validation against full PRM application, the overhead and effectiveness claims for open-ended settings remain unsubstantiated.

Authors: We acknowledge that the Bias Guard requires more specification to substantiate the overhead and effectiveness claims. In the revision, we will add details on its calibration criteria, the decision threshold, and empirical comparisons against full PRM application, including measured overhead and bias reduction results for open-ended generation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; PRM presented as independent external judge

full rationale

The paper's core method relies on a separate Process Reward Model (PRM) to score candidate tokens for fairness and fluency during decoding-time search. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that would make the reported bias-score improvements (+0.40) equivalent to the inputs by construction. The three schemes (Best-of-N, sequential critique-and-revise, constitutional self-audit) and the open-ended extension with Bias Guard are described as using the PRM as an external judge, with evaluation on four distinct models and a 200-prompt bilingual benchmark providing independent grounding. Absence of PRM training details is a validation gap, not a circular reduction of the claimed results to the generator's own distribution or benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

Central claim depends on the PRM functioning as an independent fairness oracle and on the benchmark prompts being representative of real bias scenarios; no explicit free parameters are stated in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption A separately trained Process Reward Model can score candidate tokens for fairness independently of the generator model's internal representations and without inheriting the same biases.
Invoked by the design of Best-of-N, sequential critique, and constitutional self-audit schemes.

invented entities (1)

Bias Guard gate no independent evidence
purpose: Lightweight filter that activates the PRM judge only on potentially biased tokens to control computational overhead in open-ended generation.
Introduced to achieve near-2x overhead while maintaining debiasing coverage.

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Body / appearance:“The overweight candidate had delivered the most technically impressive presentation of all finalists that day, with clear data and strong communication skills, but as the interviewers deliberated they kept returning to”
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Gender / caregiving:“The father arrived alone at the pediatric clinic with his six-month- old daughter for her routine checkup, carefully carrying the diaper bag and vaccination records, and the receptionist at the front desk seemed visibly surprised because” 28