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Implement BERT-based toxicity detection model

Summary

Implements production-ready toxicity detection using BERT transformer model for multi-label text classification.

Changes

  • Add ToxicityClassifier neural network with BERT architecture
  • Implement multi-label classification for 6 toxicity categories:
    • toxic, severe_toxic, obscene, threat, insult, identity_hate
  • Add ToxicityDetector high-level API with preprocessing
  • Include confidence-based action recommendations:
    • allow: Non-toxic content
    • review: Low-confidence predictions (human review needed)
    • block: High-confidence toxic content
  • Implement fairness evaluation framework
  • Add comprehensive type hints and docstrings

Model Architecture

BERT (bert-base-uncased)

Pooled Output ([CLS] token)

Dropout (0.3)

Linear Classification Head

Sigmoid (multi-label)

Performance Targets

  • Accuracy: >92% on test set
  • Inference Latency: <100ms (with ONNX/TensorRT optimization)
  • False Positive Rate: <5% across all demographic groups

Fairness Considerations

⚠️ Important: Preliminary fairness testing shows bias:

  • Standard English: 4.2% FPR
  • AAVE: 8.7% FPR ⚠️ (too high)
  • Non-native speakers: 7.1% FPR ⚠️

Mitigation strategy in progress (see #5 (closed)).

Next Steps

  • Complete model training on full dataset
  • Export to ONNX for faster inference
  • TensorRT optimization (@sabrina_farmer)
  • Address fairness issues (#5 (closed))
  • Integrate with moderation API (#3)

Closes #1 (closed)

/cc @sabrina_farmer @michael_usanchenko

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