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Large language models (LLMs) encode rich cultural knowledge learned from diverse web-scale data, offering an unprecedented opportunity to model cultural commonsense at scale. Yet this knowledge remains mostly implicit and unstructured,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Junior Cedric Tonga , Chen Cecilia Liu , Iryna Gurevych , Fajri Koto

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values is critical for their safe and effective deployment across diverse user populations. However, existing benchmarks often neglect cultural and demographic diversity, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yao Liang , Dongcheng Zhao , Feifei Zhao , Guobin Shen , Yuwei Wang , Dongqi Liang , Yi Zeng

Value alignment is central to the development of safe and socially compatible artificial intelligence. However, how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent and enact human values in real-world decision contexts remains under-explored. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jen-tse Huang , Jiantong Qin , Xueli Qiu , Sharon Levy , Michelle R. Kaufman , Mark Dredze

Frontier large language models (LLMs) are developed by researchers and practitioners with skewed cultural backgrounds and on datasets with skewed sources. However, LLMs' (lack of) multicultural knowledge cannot be effectively assessed with…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in software engineering tasks such as requirements elicitation, design, and evaluation, raising critical questions regarding their alignment with human judgments on responsible AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Asma Yamani , Malak Baslyman , Moataz Ahmed

This paper introduces the "CIVICS: Culturally-Informed & Values-Inclusive Corpus for Societal impacts" dataset, designed to evaluate the social and cultural variation of Large Language Models (LLMs) across multiple languages and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Giada Pistilli , Alina Leidinger , Yacine Jernite , Atoosa Kasirzadeh , Alexandra Sasha Luccioni , Margaret Mitchell

Ensuring cultural values alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge, as these models often embed Western-centric biases from their training data, leading to misrepresentations and fairness concerns in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Wonduk Seo , Zonghao Yuan , Yi Bu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted by users across the globe, who interact with them in a diverse range of languages. At the same time, there are well-documented imbalances in the training data and optimisation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Bram Bulté , Ayla Rigouts Terryn

Large language models (LLMs) are reported to be partial to certain cultures owing to the training data dominance from the English corpora. Since multilingual cultural data are often expensive to collect, existing efforts handle this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Cheng Li , Mengzhou Chen , Jindong Wang , Sunayana Sitaram , Xing Xie

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in culturally diverse environments, yet existing evaluations of cultural competence remain limited. Existing methods focus on de-contextualized correctness or forced-choice judgments,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Truong Vo , Sanmi Koyejo

Research has shown that while large language models (LLMs) can generate their responses based on cultural context, they are not perfect and tend to generalize across cultures. However, when evaluating the cultural bias of a language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Vitthal Bhandari

The fields of AI current lacks methods to quantitatively assess and potentially alter the moral values inherent in the output of large language models (LLMs). However, decades of social science research has developed and refined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Noam Benkler , Drisana Mosaphir , Scott Friedman , Andrew Smart , Sonja Schmer-Galunder

As Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) are deployed globally, they require understanding of and grounding in the relevant cultural background. To properly assess these models' cultural awareness, adequate benchmarks are needed. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Nikhil Reddy Varimalla , Yunfei Xu , Arkadiy Saakyan , Meng Fan Wang , Smaranda Muresan

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, yet evaluations focus primarily on task success rather than cultural appropriateness or evaluator reliability. We introduce LiveCultureBench, a multi-cultural,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Viet-Thanh Pham , Lizhen Qu , Thuy-Trang Vu , Gholamreza Haffari , Dinh Phung

This article proposes a new integration of linguistic anthropology and machine learning (ML) around convergent interests in both the underpinnings of language and making language technologies more socially responsible. While linguistic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Graham M. Jones , Shai Satran , Arvind Satyanarayan

Large language models (LLMs) based AI systems increasingly mediate what billions of people see, choose and buy. This creates an urgent need to quantify the systemic risks of LLM-driven market intermediation, including its implications for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jasmine Rienecker , Katarina Mpofu , Naman Goel , Siddhartha Datta , Jun Zhao , Oscar Danielsson , Fredrik Thorsen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer everyday questions, yet their performance on culturally grounded and dialectal content remains uneven across languages. We propose a comprehensive method that (i) translates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti , Firoj Alam

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), trained primarily on English-centric data, frequently generate culturally inappropriate or misaligned responses in cross-cultural settings. To mitigate this, we introduce the task of cross-cultural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhen Zeng , Leijiang Gu , Feng Li , Jing Yu , Zenglin Shi

Enhancing the linguistic capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to include low-resource languages is a critical research area. Current research directions predominantly rely on synthetic data generated by translating English corpora,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Abdellah El Mekki , Houdaifa Atou , Omer Nacar , Shady Shehata , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly pivotal in various domains due the recent advancements in their performance capabilities. However, concerns persist regarding biases in LLMs, including gender, racial, and cultural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mijntje Meijer , Hadi Mohammadi , Ayoub Bagheri