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Bias in AI/ML-based systems is a ubiquitous problem and bias in AI/ML systems may negatively impact society. There are many reasons behind a system being biased. The bias can be due to the algorithm we are using for our problem or may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Vedant V. Kandge , Siddhant V. Kandge , Kajal Kumbharkar , Tanuja Pattanshetti

We study the relationship between task-agnostic intrinsic and task-specific extrinsic social bias evaluation measures for Masked Language Models (MLMs), and find that there exists only a weak correlation between these two types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Masahiro Kaneko , Danushka Bollegala , Naoaki Okazaki

This study investigates the feature representations produced by publicly available open source medical vision-language models (VLMs). While medical VLMs are expected to capture diagnostically relevant features, their learned representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Keita Takeda , Tomoya Sakai

Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have increased the performance of different natural language understanding as well as generation tasks. Although LLMs have breached the state-of-the-art performance in various tasks, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Charaka Vinayak Kumar , Ashok Urlana , Gopichand Kanumolu , Bala Mallikarjunarao Garlapati , Pruthwik Mishra

Despite the remarkable performance of foundation vision-language models, the shared representation space for text and vision can also encode harmful label associations detrimental to fairness. While prior work has uncovered bias in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Caner Hazirbas , Alicia Sun , Yonathan Efroni , Mark Ibrahim

Recent breakthroughs in vision-language models (VLMs) start a new page in the vision community. The VLMs provide stronger and more generalizable feature embeddings compared to those from ImageNet-pretrained models, thanks to the training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jieneng Chen , Qihang Yu , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into critical decision-making processes, such as loan approvals and visa applications, where inherent biases can lead to discriminatory outcomes. In this paper, we examine the nuanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mina Arzaghi , Florian Carichon , Golnoosh Farnadi

The proliferation of machine learning models in critical decision making processes has underscored the need for bias discovery and mitigation strategies. Identifying the reasons behind a biased system is not straightforward, since in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Badr-Eddine Marani , Mohamed Hanini , Nihitha Malayarukil , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Enzo Ferrante

The problem of algorithmic bias in machine learning has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its concrete and potentially hazardous implications in society. In much the same manner, biases can also alter modern industrial and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Laurent Risser , Agustin Picard , Lucas Hervier , Jean-Michel Loubes

LLMs are increasingly powerful and widely used to assist users in a variety of tasks. This use risks the introduction of LLM biases to consequential decisions such as job hiring, human performance evaluation, and criminal sentencing. Bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Mahammed Kamruzzaman , Md. Minul Islam Shovon , Gene Louis Kim

Text-to-image diffusion models have been adopted into key commercial workflows, such as art generation and image editing. Characterising the implicit social biases they exhibit, such as gender and racial stereotypes, is a necessary first…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Adhithya Prakash Saravanan , Rafal Kocielnik , Roy Jiang , Pengrui Han , Anima Anandkumar

Warning: This research studies AI persuasion and bias amplification that could be misused; all experiments are for safety evaluation. Large Language Models (LLMs) now generate convincing, human-like text and are widely used in content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Saumya Roy

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in synthesizing diverse content. However, despite their high-quality outputs, these models often perpetuate social biases, including those related to gender and race. These biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yingdong Shi , Changming Li , Yifan Wang , Yongxiang Zhao , Anqi Pang , Sibei Yang , Jingyi Yu , Kan Ren

Social bias in machine learning has drawn significant attention, with work ranging from demonstrations of bias in a multitude of applications, curating definitions of fairness for different contexts, to developing algorithms to mitigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Yi Chern Tan , L. Elisa Celis

Our society is plagued by several biases, including racial biases, caste biases, and gender bias. As a matter of fact, several years ago, most of these notions were unheard of. These biases passed through generations along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Lavisha Aggarwal , Shruti Bhargava

With the starting point that implicit human biases are reflected in the statistical regularities of language, it is possible to measure biases in English static word embeddings. State-of-the-art neural language models generate dynamic word…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Wei Guo , Aylin Caliskan

Biases inherent in both data and algorithms make the fairness of widespread machine learning (ML)-based decision-making systems less than optimal. To improve the trustfulness of such ML decision systems, it is crucial to be aware of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Biying Fu , Naser Damer

Conventional large language model (LLM) fairness alignment largely focuses on mitigating bias along single sensitive attributes, overlooking fairness as an inherently multidimensional and context-specific value. This approach risks creating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Eva Paraschou , Line Harder Clemmensen , Sneha Das

Vision-language models enable open-world classification of objects without the need for any retraining. While this zero-shot paradigm marks a significant advance, even today's best models exhibit skewed performance when objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mazda Moayeri , Michael Rabbat , Mark Ibrahim , Diane Bouchacourt