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Language embeds information about social, cultural, and political values people hold. Prior work has explored social and potentially harmful biases encoded in Pre-Trained Language models (PTLMs). However, there has been no systematic study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Arnav Arora , Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Isabelle Augenstein

Cultural Intelligence (CQ) refers to the ability to understand unfamiliar cultural contexts, a crucial skill for large language models (LLMs) to effectively engage with globally diverse users. Existing studies often focus on explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ziyi Liu , Priyanka Dey , Jen-tse Huang , Zhenyu Zhao , Bowen Jiang , Rahul Gupta , Yang Liu , Yao Du , Jieyu Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly support culturally sensitive decision making, yet often exhibit misalignment due to skewed pretraining data and the absence of structured value representations. Existing methods can steer outputs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wonduk Seo , Wonseok Choi , Junseo Koh , Juhyeon Lee , Hyunjin An , Minhyeong Yu , Jian Park , Qingshan Zhou , Seunghyun Lee , Yi Bu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance across many tasks, but their ability to capture culturally diverse moral values remains unclear. In this paper, we examine whether LLMs mirror variations in moral attitudes reported…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hadi Mohammadi , Ayoub Bagheri

Despite their global prevalence, many Large Language Models (LLMs) are aligned to a monolithic, often Western-centric set of values. This paper investigates the more challenging task of fine-grained value alignment: examining whether LLMs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan , Zhengyuan Liu , Xiaoyuan Yi , Jing Yao , Xing Xie , Nancy F. Chen , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) behave non-deterministically, and prompting has become a common method for steering their outputs. A popular strategy is to assign a persona to the model to produce more varied, context-sensitive responses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bruce W. Lee , Yeongheon Lee , Hyunsoo Cho

The rapid adoption of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in recent years has been accompanied by growing fairness concerns due to their propensity to reinforce harmful societal stereotypes. While significant attention has been paid to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Phillip Howard , Xin Su , Kathleen C. Fraser

Recent studies evaluate the value orientation of large language models (LLMs) using adapted social surveys, typically by prompting models with survey questions and comparing their responses to average human responses. This paper identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jindřich Libovický

Culture shapes reasoning, values, prioritization, and strategic decision-making, yet large language models (LLMs) often exhibit cultural biases that misalign with target populations. As LLMs are increasingly used for strategic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Maksim Eren , Eric Michalak , Brian Cook , Johnny Seales

As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable breakthroughs, aligning their values with humans has become imperative for their responsible development and customized applications. However, there still lack evaluations of LLMs values…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jing Yao , Xiaoyuan Yi , Shitong Duan , Jindong Wang , Yuzhuo Bai , Muhua Huang , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Zhicheng Dou , Maosong Sun , Xing Xie

As the scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has dramatically enhanced their capabilities, there has been a growing focus on the alignment problem to ensure their responsible and ethical use. While existing alignment efforts predominantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuhang Wang , Yanxu Zhu , Chao Kong , Shuyu Wei , Xiaoyuan Yi , Xing Xie , Jitao Sang

Large Language Models (LLM) technology is constantly improving towards human-like dialogue. Values are a basic driving force underlying human behavior, but little research has been done to study the values exhibited in text generated by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Naama Rozen , Liat Bezalel , Gal Elidan , Amir Globerson , Ella Daniel

Qualitative analysis of open-ended interviews plays a central role in ethnographic and economic research by uncovering individuals' values, motivations, and culturally embedded financial behaviors. While large language models (LLMs) offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Arina Kostina , Marios Dikaiakos , Alejandro Porcel , Tassos Stassopoulos

The emergent capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have made it crucial to align their values with those of humans. However, current methodologies typically attempt to assign value as an attribute to LLMs, yet lack attention to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhaowei Zhang , Ceyao Zhang , Nian Liu , Siyuan Qi , Ziqi Rong , Song-Chun Zhu , Shuguang Cui , Yaodong Yang

Are AI systems truly representing human values, or merely averaging across them? Our study suggests a concerning reality: Large Language Models (LLMs) fail to represent diverse cultural moral frameworks despite their linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Simon Münker

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in social science simulations. While their performance on reasoning and optimization tasks has been extensively evaluated, less attention has been paid to their ability to simulate human…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yuanjun Feng , Vivek Choudhary , Yash Raj Shrestha

As large language models (LLMs) become more integrated into societal systems, the risk of them perpetuating and amplifying harmful biases becomes a critical safety concern. Traditional methods for mitigating bias often rely on data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shivam Dubey

We introduce MENAValues, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate the cultural alignment and multilingual biases of large language models (LLMs) with respect to the beliefs and values of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pardis Sadat Zahraei , Ehsaneddin Asgari

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed worldwide, ensuring their fair and comprehensive cultural understanding is important. However, LLMs exhibit cultural bias and limited awareness of underrepresented cultures, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Taisei Yamamoto , Ryoma Kumon , Danushka Bollegala , Hitomi Yanaka

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values has attracted increasing attention since it provides clarity, transparency, and the ability to adapt to evolving scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a Controlled Value Vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Haoran Jin , Meng Li , Xiting Wang , Zhihao Xu , Minlie Huang , Yantao Jia , Defu Lian