arXiv AI By Tianhui Liu, Hetian Pang, Xin Zhang, Jie Feng, Pan Hui, Yong Li

CityRiSE: Reasoning Urban Socio-Economic Status in Large Vision-Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2510. 22282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban socio-economic sensing plays a vital role in advancing global sustainable development goals.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

SDGBiasBench: Benchmarking and Mitigating Vision--Language Models' Biases in Sustainable Development Goals

SDGBiasBench is a large-scale benchmark suite designed to evaluate and mitigate biases in vision–language models (VLMs) when reasoning about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It contains 500k expert‑involved multiple‑choice questions and 50k regression tasks, allowing assessment of both decision‑level and estimation‑level bias. Experiments show that current VLMs exhibit intrinsic SDG bias, often relying on priors rather than multimodal evidence, and the proposed CADE method significantly reduces this bias, improving accuracy and reducing mean absolute error.

By Zihang Lin, Huaiyuan Qin, Muli Yang, Hongyuan Zhu