arXiv:2609.16366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When foundation models describe people, recent work in AI fairness, accessibility, and ethics recommends avoiding inferred identity labels (e.g., "sh...
The study introduces GAPA, a dataset of 316 physical attributes with 14,706 gender-association ratings from 304 US annotators, showing that such descriptions carry structured gender associations. It evaluates 16 LLMs, finding they partially mirror human ratings but exhibit biases such as compressed distributions, weaker alignment for men, and asymmetric abstention toward non‑binary identities. A proxy model trained on these data is released and applied to analyze character descriptions in LitBank, illustrating the persistence of gendered interpretations in ostensibly neutral language.
The paper presents new models for inferring gender from Chinese names, addressing the ambiguity inherent in Pinyin-only representations. Two hanzi-based models—a regression model producing a continuous gender score and a classification model yielding male, neutral, or female labels—are trained on Chinese-language physics publications and achieve high predictive accuracy. A Pinyin pipeline aggregates these hanzi predictions with transliteration and frequency weighting, adding an ambiguity score to flag unresolved cases, and outperforms existing tools by assigning gender to all names in an APS journal sample.
arXiv:2502.10577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruct-based large language models (LLMs) have been shown to propagate and even amplify gender bias when prompted with contextually constra...
arXiv:2609.38036v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding gender biases in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important as these systems become embedded in decision-support to...
arXiv:2606. 07969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gender bias in AI-generated stories is a well-documented problem.
arXiv:2610.23587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training is widely assumed to reduce the social biases language models inherit from pretraining, yet direct evidence for this assumption remains m...
arXiv:2609.38036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding gender biases in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important as these systems become embedded in decision-support tools with...
The paper introduces a diagnostic tool for distinguishing the use of misogynistic slurs from their mention in counter‑speech within code‑mixed Hinglish. It identifies evaluation artifacts in existing corpora, releases a 416‑item minimal‑pair contrast set that decorrelates slur presence and gendered register from labels, and proposes a pair‑consistency metric to assess model performance. Experiments show that even strong baselines struggle to consistently label counter‑speech pairs, while a large language model achieves perfect scores, indicating the benchmark measures genuine capability rather than exploitation of artifacts.
arXiv:2608. 13328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Professional communication is increasingly mediated by LLMs - but do these models serve all users equally?
The study investigates how speech‑to‑speech (S2S) models handle gender, distinguishing between the acoustic voice and the content’s gender cues. Experiments across five models in English, Spanish, and Mandarin show that while the rendered voice remains unbiased, the models consistently attribute speaker gender based on textual content rather than voice. When content and voice disagree, misgendering rates soar to 90%, whereas agreement yields only 2% misgendering.
arXiv:2506.23101v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring the trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires rigorous evaluation of gender bias, particularly in sociall...