Gender Prediction from Text ✍️ → 👩‍🦰👨

This model predicts the likely gender of an anonymous speaker or writer based solely on the content of an English text. It is built upon DeBERTa-v3-large and fine-tuned on a diverse, multilingual, and multi-domain dataset with both formal and informal texts.

📍 Space link: 🔗 Try it out on Hugging Face Spaces
📁 Model repo: 🔗 View on Hugging Face Hub
🧠 Source code: GitHub

📊 Model Summary

• Base model: microsoft/deberta-v3-large
• Fine-tuned on: binary gender classification task (female vs male)
• Best F1 Score: 0.69 on a balanced multi-domain test set
• Max token length: 128
• Evaluation Metrics:
  • F1: 0.69
  • Accuracy: 0.69
  • Precision: 0.69
  • Recall: 0.69

📂 Evaluation: View on Notebook

🧾 Datasets Used

All datasets were normalized, translated if necessary, deduplicated, and balanced via random undersampling to ensure equal representation of both genders.

🛠️ Preprocessing & Training

• Normalization: Cleaned quotes, dashes, placeholders, noise, and HTML/code from all datasets.
• Translation: Used Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-* models for Polish and Russian data.
• Undersampling: Random undersampling to balance male and female samples.
• Training Strategy:
  • LR Finder used to optimize learning rate (2.66e-6)
  • Fine-tuned using early stopping on both F1 and loss
  • Step-based evaluation every 250 steps
  • Best checkpoint at step 24,750 saved and evaluated
• Second Phase Fine-tuning:
  • Performed on full merged dataset for 2 epochs
  • Used cosine learning rate scheduler and warm-up steps

📈 Performance (on full merged test set)

📦 Usage Example

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F

device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")

model_name = "fc63/gender_prediction_model_from_text"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, use_fast=False)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name).eval().to(device)

def predict(text):
    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, padding=True, max_length=128).to(device)
    with torch.no_grad():
        outputs = model(**inputs)
        probs = F.softmax(outputs.logits, dim=1)
    pred = torch.argmax(probs, dim=1).item()
    confidence = round(probs[0][pred].item() * 100, 1)
    gender = "Female" if pred == 0 else "Male"
    return f"{gender} (Confidence: {confidence}%)"

sample_text = "I love writing in my journal every night. It helps me reflect on the day and plan for tomorrow."
print(predict(sample_text))

The Output Of This Sample:

Female (Confidence: 84.1%)

📌 Future Work & Limitations

I do not want to leave this model at the level of 0.69 accuracy and F1 score.

As far as I can detect at this point, there is a bias towards predicting emotional, psychological, and introspective texts as female. Similarly, more direct and result-oriented writings are also often predicted as male. Therefore, a large, carefully labeled dataset that reflects the opposite of this pattern is needed.

The datasets used to train this model had to be obtained from open-source platforms, which limited the range of accessible data.

To make further progress, I need to create and label a larger dataset myself — which requires a significant amount of time, effort, and cost.

Before moving to dataset creation, I plan to try a few more approaches using the current dataset. So far, alternative techniques have not helped improve the scores without causing overfitting. After testing a few more methods, if none work, the only step left will be building a new dataset — and that will likely be the point where I stop development, as it will be both labor-intensive and costly for me.

👨‍🔬 Author & License

Author: Furkan Çoban
Project: CENG-481 Gender Prediction Model
License: MIT