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Recent advances in large language models and vision-language models have led to growing interest in explainable evaluation metrics for image captioning. However, these metrics generate explanations without standardized criteria, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hyunjong Kim , Sangyeop Kim , Jongheon Jeong , Yeongjae Cho , Sungzoon Cho

Large language models (LLMs) are now deployed worldwide, inspiring a surge of benchmarks that measure their multilingual and multicultural abilities. However, these benchmarks prioritize generic language understanding or superficial…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in culturally sensitive real-world tasks. However, existing cultural alignment approaches fail to align LLMs' broad cultural values with the specific goals of downstream tasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Binchi Zhang , Xujiang Zhao , Jundong Li , Haifeng Chen , Zhengzhang Chen

Cultural alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for producing contextually aware, respectful, and trustworthy outputs. Without it, models risk generating stereotyped, insensitive, or misleading responses that fail to reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Mark Dras , Usman Naseem

The growing deployment of large language models (LLMs) across diverse cultural contexts necessitates a deeper understanding of LLMs' representations of different cultures. Prior work has focused on evaluating the cultural awareness of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Haeun Yu , Seogyeong Jeong , Siddhesh Pawar , Jisu Shin , Jiho Jin , Junho Myung , Alice Oh , Isabelle Augenstein

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced the ability of artificial intelligence systems to understand and generate multimodal content. However, these models often exhibit limited effectiveness…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pengju Xu , Yan Wang , Shuyuan Zhang , Xuan Zhou , Xin Li , Yue Yuan , Fengzhao Li , Shunyuan Zhou , Xingyu Wang , Yi Zhang , Haiying Zhao

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

A common failure mode in long-horizon agentic test-time scaling is error propagation, where factual errors or invalid deductions introduced at intermediate steps persist in the agent's belief state and contaminate later reasoning. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Woomin Song , Beomjun Kim , Daewon Choi , Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi , Saket Dingliwal , Jinwoo Shin , Aram Galstyan

The evolving landscape of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to improve the interpretability of intricate machine learning (ML) models, yet faces challenges in formalisation and empirical validation, being an inherently…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multicultural settings; however, systematic evaluation of cultural specificity at the sentence level remains underexplored. We propose the Conceptual Cultural Index (CCI), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Takumi Ohashi , Hitoshi Iyatomi

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly deployed in globally distributed applications, such as tourism assistants, yet their ability to produce culturally appropriate responses remains underexplored. Existing multimodal safety…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Haoyi Qiu , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Ruichen Zheng , Jiao Sun , Nanyun Peng

Evaluating personalized text generated by large language models (LLMs) is challenging, as only the LLM user, i.e., prompt author, can reliably assess the output, but re-engaging the same individuals across studies is infeasible. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Alireza Salemi , Julian Killingback , Hamed Zamani

Correct answers do not necessarily reflect cultural understanding. We introduce CRaFT, an explanation-based multilingual evaluation framework designed to assess how large language models (LLMs) reason across cultural contexts. Rather than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shehenaz Hossain , Haithem Afli

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) faces a critical challenge concerning explainability, notably when GEC systems are designed for language learners. Existing research predominantly focuses on explaining grammatical errors extracted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jingheng Ye , Shang Qin , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shen Wang , Qingsong Wen

Cultural bias is pervasive in many large language models (LLMs), largely due to the deficiency of data representative of different cultures. Typically, cultural datasets and benchmarks are constructed either by extracting subsets of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Cheng Li , Damien Teney , Linyi Yang , Qingsong Wen , Xing Xie , Jindong Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in general machine translation, yet their ability in culture-aware scenarios remains poorly understood. To bridge this gap, we introduce CanMT, a Culture-Aware Novel-Driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zekun Yuan , Yangfan Ye , Xiaocheng Feng , Baohang Li , Qichen Hong , Yunfei Lu , Dandan Tu , Bing Qin

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in offering emotional support and generating empathetic responses for individuals in distress, but their ability to deliver culturally sensitive support remains underexplored due to a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chen Cecilia Liu , Hiba Arnaout , Nils Kovačić , Dana Atzil-Slonim , Iryna Gurevych

Large Language Models (LLM) benchmarks tell us when models fail, but not why they fail. A wrong answer on a reasoning dataset may stem from formatting issues, calculation errors, or dataset noise rather than weak reasoning. Without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shir Ashury-Tahan , Yifan Mai , Elron Bandel , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Leshem Choshen

Language models are known to exhibit various forms of cultural bias in decision-making tasks, yet much less is known about their degree of cultural familiarity in open-ended text generation tasks. In this paper, we introduce the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Lingjun Zhao , Dayeon Ki , Marine Carpuat , Hal Daumé

To serve global users safely and productively, LLMs need culture-specific knowledge that might not be learned during pre-training. How do we find such knowledge that is (1) salient to in-group users, but (2) unknown to LLMs? The most common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Caleb Ziems , William Held , Jane Yu , Amir Goldberg , David Grusky , Diyi Yang