arXiv Machine Learning

Aligned but Stereotypical? How System Prompts Shape Demographic Bias in LLM-Based Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2512. 04981v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) systems increasingly rely on Large Language Model (LLM)-based text conditioning to interpret and expand user prompts.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

KG-FairDiff: Knowledge Graph-Guided Prompt Refinement for Demographically Fair Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2606. 01282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-Image (TTI) systems are now everyday infrastructure for journalism, education, advertising, and public communication, and the demographic and cultural stereotypes they inherit from training data (rendering women, people of colour, older adults, and non-Western cultures as under-represented or caricatured) become a population-level harm at deployment scale.

By Farbod Davoodi, Seyed Reza Tavakoli Shiyadeh, Pooria Safaei, Sana Harighi, Parsa Gholami, Amirali Amini, Kimia Vanaei, Emad Firoozi, Parham Abed Azad, Babak Khalaj, Siavash Ahmadi, Amir Hossein Payberah, Mohammad Hossein Rohban, Soheil Kolouri, Ali Diba
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Diversifying Long Prompt Image Generation through Structured Prompt Embedding Space Sampling

The paper investigates how long, richly detailed prompts cause modern text-to-image models to lose diversity, even when many visual aspects are unspecified. It introduces PromptMoG, a training‑free method that samples prompt embeddings from a Mixture‑of‑Gaussians distribution to restore diversity while preserving semantic fidelity. The authors also present LPD‑Bench, a benchmark for evaluating fidelity and diversity under long, semantically dense prompts, and demonstrate PromptMoG’s effectiveness on four large diffusion models.

By Bo-Kai Ruan, Teng-Fang Hsiao, Ling Lo, Yi-Lun Wu, Hong-Han Shuai
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

Deep and shallow biases in language models

The paper introduces a bias depth score to differentiate between stable model preferences (Deep biases) and prompt‑dependent responses (Shallow biases) in large language models. By analyzing 4,442 opinion prompts across four models, it finds that only about a quarter of concentrated preferences persist after scenario reframing, indicating that most are shallow. The study shows Deep biases are more often inherited from pretraining and harder to remove through fine‑tuning or prompt‑based debiasing, highlighting the need to distinguish learned biases from prompt artifacts.

By An Vo, Vy Tuong Dang, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Thamar Solorio, Anh Totti Nguyen, Daeyoung Kim
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

ViD: Vision-Dominant Gender Bias Mitigation for Large Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces ViD, a vision‑dominant gender bias mitigation framework for large vision‑language models. ViD uses causal analysis of attention patterns and dual mechanisms—backdoor adjustment and refined token selection—to suppress bias while preserving reasoning and generation quality. Experiments show a 14.7% reduction in gender bias on FACET and significant improvements on MS COCO image captioning, all without extra training overhead.

By Zhipeng Zhao, Zhaoqiang Wei, Peishun Liu, Youwei Zhao, Ruichun Tang
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Debias Anything: Fairness with Diversity without Supervision in Diffusion Models

The paper introduces a method called Debias Anything that jointly addresses fairness and diversity in diffusion models without requiring sensitive-attribute annotations. By connecting a frozen diffusion model to a pretrained vision-language embedding space via an adapter, the approach uses pairs of text prompts to guide batch composition toward desired attribute proportions and employs a disagreement score to promote diversity. The method is applicable to both unconditional and text-conditional diffusion models and demonstrates improved quality and diversity while maintaining comparable fairness levels in experiments.

By Th\'eau d'Audiffret, Mariia Vladimirova, Jean-Yves Franceschi