arXiv AI

Wait, am I Being Fair? Characterizing Deductive Stereotyping and Mitigating It with Fair-GCG

arXiv:2606. 30989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Warning: This paper contains several toxic and offensive statements.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

Fair Like Us? Auditing LLM Alignment in Resource Allocation

The paper "Fair Like Us? Auditing LLM Alignment in Resource Allocation" presents a method for evaluating how large language models reason about fairness in the allocation of scarce, indivisible resources. It compares LLMs’ first‑person fairness judgments with human responses across various scenarios, finding that models tend to favor stricter fairness constraints, exhibit more self‑interested behavior, and are sensitive to framing. The study also shows that current fine‑tuning datasets struggle to align LLM judgments with human ones.

By Qishen Han, Hadi Hosseini, Joshua Kavner, Samarth Khanna, Sujoy Sikdar, Lirong Xia
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 16

Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech

The paper introduces a scope‑conditioned generation framework that incorporates structured stereotype characteristics into prompts for large language models, aiming to improve the quality of counterspeech against online hate speech. The authors validate the method on a new, human‑curated dataset in English, Italian, and Spanish, showing significant gains over generic baselines in factuality, specificity, cogency, and effectiveness for both explicit and implicit stereotypes.

By Greta Damo, Elias Urios Alacreu, Elena Cabrio, Paolo Rosso, Serena Villata
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Let's Unlearn Stereotypes Before Decision-Making: Assessing the Impact of Intrinsic Bias Mitigation on Downstream Fairness in LLMs

arXiv:2509. 16462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems, where biased predictions can reinforce social and economic disparities.

By Mina Arzaghi, Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah, Florian Carichon, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Plante, Golnoosh Farnadi
arXiv AI
Sep 2

BiasGym: A Simple and Generalizable Framework for Analyzing and Removing Biases through Injection

BiasGym is a cost‑effective, generalizable framework that injects specific biases into large language models via token‑based fine‑tuning while keeping the model frozen. It then uses two debiasing methods—Scope and Steer—to identify and suppress or redirect the components responsible for biased behavior. The framework enables consistent bias elicitation, precise localization of bias associations, and targeted debiasing without harming downstream performance, and it has been shown to reduce real‑world stereotypes such as labeling Italians as reckless drivers.

By Sekh Mainul Islam, Nadav Borenstein, Siddhesh Milind Pawar, Haeun Yu, Arnav Arora, Isabelle Augenstein
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

Reasoning Quality Emerges Early: Data Curation for Reasoning Models

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on a small, high-quality set of long reasoning traces is an effective approach for eliciting strong reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing methods for curating high-quality SFT data rely heavily on strong reasoning models to filter examples based on diversity and difficulty, making the curation process costly while often yielding suboptimal data quality.