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Recent advancements in text-to-image models, particularly diffusion models, have shown significant promise. However, compositional text-to-image models frequently encounter difficulties in generating high-quality images that accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Song Wen , Guian Fang , Renrui Zhang , Peng Gao , Hao Dong , Dimitris Metaxas

The rapid development of text-to-image generation has brought rising ethical considerations, especially regarding gender bias. Given a text prompt as input, text-to-image models generate images according to the prompt. Pioneering models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yankun Wu , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

This research investigates both explicit and implicit social biases exhibited by Vision-Language Models (VLMs). The key distinction between these bias types lies in the level of awareness: explicit bias refers to conscious, intentional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jen-tse Huang , Jiantong Qin , Jianping Zhang , Youliang Yuan , Wenxuan Wang , Jieyu Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in socially sensitive settings, raising concerns about fairness and biases, particularly across intersectional demographic attributes. In this paper, we systematically evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Chaima Boufaied , Ronnie De Souza Santos , Ann Barcomb

Current research on bias in Vision Language Models (VLMs) has important limitations: it is focused exclusively on trait associations while ignoring other forms of stereotyping, it examines specific contexts where biases are expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Messi H. J. Lee , Soyeon Jeon , Jacob M. Montgomery , Calvin K. Lai

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been widely adopted in various applications; however, they exhibit significant gender biases. Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate gender bias at the demographic group level, neglecting individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yisong Xiao , Aishan Liu , QianJia Cheng , Zhenfei Yin , Siyuan Liang , Jiapeng Li , Jing Shao , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Computer vision models have been known to encode harmful biases, leading to the potentially unfair treatment of historically marginalized groups, such as people of color. However, there remains a lack of datasets balanced along demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nicholas Lui , Bryan Chia , William Berrios , Candace Ross , Douwe Kiela

Recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs) have amplified concerns about fairness, yet existing evaluations remain confined to demographic attributes and often conflate fairness with refusal behavior. This paper broadens the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zaiying Zhao , Toshihiko Yamasaki

The emergence of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) marks significant strides towards achieving general artificial intelligence. However, these advancements are accompanied by concerns about biased outputs, a challenge that has yet to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sibo Wang , Xiangkui Cao , Jie Zhang , Zheng Yuan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen , Wen Gao

Numerous works have analyzed biases in vision and pre-trained language models individually - however, less attention has been paid to how these biases interact in multimodal settings. This work extends text-based bias analysis methods to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Tejas Srinivasan , Yonatan Bisk

Existing works examining Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for social biases predominantly focus on a limited set of documented bias associations, such as gender:profession or race:crime. This narrow scope often overlooks a vast range of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Chahat Raj , Anjishnu Mukherjee , Aylin Caliskan , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Ziwei Zhu

Following on recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and subsequent chat models, a new wave of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has emerged. Such models can incorporate images as input in addition to text, and perform tasks such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Kathleen C. Fraser , Svetlana Kiritchenko

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on extensive datasets can inadvertently learn biases by correlating gender information with specific objects or scenarios. Current methods, which focus on modifying inputs and monitoring changes in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhaotian Weng , Zijun Gao , Jerone Andrews , Jieyu Zhao

In recent years, the rapid advancement of machine learning (ML) models, particularly transformer-based pre-trained models, has revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) fields. However, researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nayeon Lee , Yejin Bang , Holy Lovenia , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Wenliang Dai , Pascale Fung

Vision-language models (VLM) align images and text in a shared representation space that is useful for retrieval and zero-shot transfer. Yet, this alignment can encode and amplify social stereotypes in subtle ways that are not obvious from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Aiswarya Konavoor , Raj Abhijit Dandekar , Rajat Dandekar , Sreedath Panat

Bias in large language models (LLMs) has many forms, from overt discrimination to implicit stereotypes. Counterfactual bias evaluation is a widely used approach to quantifying bias and often relies on template-based probes that explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Farnaz Kohankhaki , D. B. Emerson , Jacob-Junqi Tian , Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari , Faiza Khan Khattak

Language models are trained on large-scale corpora that embed implicit biases documented in psychology. Valence associations (pleasantness/unpleasantness) of social groups determine the biased attitudes towards groups and concepts in social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Shiva Omrani Sabbaghi , Robert Wolfe , Aylin Caliskan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in integrating visual and textual information for vision-centric tasks, but their handling of inconsistencies between modalities is underexplored. We investigate VLMs' modality preferences when faced with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ailin Deng , Tri Cao , Zhirui Chen , Bryan Hooi

Vision-language modeling (VLM) aims to bridge the information gap between images and natural language. Under the new paradigm of first pre-training on massive image-text pairs and then fine-tuning on task-specific data, VLM in the remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xingxing Weng , Chao Pang , Gui-Song Xia

Vision Language Models (VLMs), exemplified by GPT-4V, adeptly integrate text and vision modalities. This integration enhances Large Language Models' ability to mimic human perception, allowing them to process image inputs. Despite VLMs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Messi H. J. Lee , Jacob M. Montgomery , Calvin K. Lai