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Text-to-image (T2I) models, and their encoded biases, increasingly shape the visual media the public encounters. While researchers have produced a rich body of work on bias measurement, auditing, and mitigation in T2I systems, those methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bochu Ding , Brinnae Bent , Augustus Wendell

Researchers have devised numerous ways to quantify social biases vested in pretrained language models. As some language models are capable of generating coherent completions given a set of textual prompts, several prompting datasets have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Afra Feyza Akyürek , Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit , Sejin Paik , Derry Wijaya

With the increasing use of image generation technology, understanding its social biases, including gender bias, is essential. This paper presents a large-scale study on gender bias in text-to-image (T2I) models, focusing on everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Leander Girrbach , Stephan Alaniz , Genevieve Smith , Zeynep Akata

Note: This paper includes examples of potentially offensive content related to religious bias, presented solely for academic purposes. The widespread adoption of language models highlights the need for critical examinations of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ajwad Abrar , Nafisa Tabassum Oeshy , Mohsinul Kabir , Sophia Ananiadou

Language models (LM) are becoming prevalent in many language-based application spaces globally. Although these LMs are improving our day-to-day interactions with digital products, concerns remain whether open-ended languages or text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Akhter Al Amin , Kazi Sinthia Kabir

Bias in text-to-image (T2I) models can propagate unfair social representations and may be used to aggressively market ideas or push controversial agendas. Existing T2I model bias evaluation methods only focus on social biases. We look…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved widespread success due to their ability to generate high-resolution, photorealistic images. These models are trained on large-scale datasets, like LAION-5B, often scraped from the internet.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Korada Sri Vardhana , Shrikrishna Lolla , Soma Biswas

Text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), undergo iterative updates to improve image quality and address concerns such as safety. Improvements in image quality are straightforward to assess. However, how model updates resolve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yixin Wu , Yun Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Mitigating biases in generative AI and, particularly in text-to-image models, is of high importance given their growing implications in society. The biased datasets used for training pose challenges in ensuring the responsible development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Carolina Lopez Olmos , Alexandros Neophytou , Sunando Sengupta , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Text-to-Image generative systems are progressing rapidly to be a source of advertisement and media and could soon serve as image searches or artists. However, there is a significant concern about the representativity bias these models…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Asma Yamani , Malak Baslyman

Bias amplification is a phenomenon in which models exacerbate biases or stereotypes present in the training data. In this paper, we study bias amplification in the text-to-image domain using Stable Diffusion by comparing gender ratios in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Preethi Seshadri , Sameer Singh , Yanai Elazar

Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models have revolutionized content creation, yet they inherently risk amplifying societal biases. While sociological research provides systematic classifications of bias, existing T2I benchmarks largely…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hanjun Luo , Zhimu Huang , Haoyu Huang , Ziye Deng , Ruizhe Chen , Xinfeng Li , Zuozhu Liu , Hanan Salam

Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but inherit and amplify training-data biases, skewing coverage of semantic attributes. Prior work addresses this in two ways. Closed-set approaches mitigate biases in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Silpa Vadakkeeveetil Sreelatha , Dan Wang , Serge Belongie , Muhammad Awais , Anjan Dutta

This study examines how Large Language Models (LLMs) can reduce biases in text-to-image generation systems by modifying user prompts. We define bias as a model's unfair deviation from population statistics given neutral prompts. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 René Peinl

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved widespread popularity due to their unprecedented image generation capability. In particular, their ability to synthesize and modify human faces has spurred research into using generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Harrison Rosenberg , Shimaa Ahmed , Guruprasad V Ramesh , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Kassem Fawaz

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) has led to an increased presence of AI-generated images in daily life. However, biased T2I models can generate content with specific tendencies, potentially influencing people's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Huayang Huang , Xiangye Jin , Jiaxu Miao , Yu Wu

Diffusion-based text-to-image models have rapidly gained popularity for their ability to generate detailed and realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these models often reflect the biases present in their training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Hidir Yesiltepe , Kiymet Akdemir , Pinar Yanardag

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models achieve impressive visual fidelity but inherit and amplify demographic imbalances and cultural biases embedded in training data. We introduce T2I-BiasBench, a unified evaluation framework of thirteen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nihal Jaiswal , Siddhartha Arjaria , Gyanendra Chaubey , Ankush Kumar , Aditya Singh , Anchal Chaurasiya

Text-to-image generation (TTI) refers to the usage of models that could process text input and generate high fidelity images based on text descriptions. Text-to-image generation using neural networks could be traced back to the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Fengxiang Bie , Yibo Yang , Zhongzhu Zhou , Adam Ghanem , Minjia Zhang , Zhewei Yao , Xiaoxia Wu , Connor Holmes , Pareesa Golnari , David A. Clifton , Yuxiong He , Dacheng Tao , Shuaiwen Leon Song

The recent advancement of large and powerful models with Text-to-Image (T2I) generation abilities -- such as OpenAI's DALLE-3 and Google's Gemini -- enables users to generate high-quality images from textual prompts. However, it has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yixin Wan , Arjun Subramonian , Anaelia Ovalle , Zongyu Lin , Ashima Suvarna , Christina Chance , Hritik Bansal , Rebecca Pattichis , Kai-Wei Chang