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  1. Measuring Cultural Alignment Beyond the Average: A Framework for Evaluating Maternal-Health LLM Interactions in Indian Contexts

    Oct 8, 2026Umaira Izhar, Gunjan Arora, Pushpendra SinghCultural AlignmentClinical Language Model Evaluation

    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

  2. CRISP: Cultural Reward Modeling for Implicit Situated Propriety

    Sep 28, 2026Zekun Yuan, Yangfan Ye, Baohang Li +6Reward ModelingRL for Language Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd · Peng Cheng Laboratory

  3. Same Values, Different Languages? From Multilingual Probing to Steering LLMs Toward Chinese Social Values

    Sep 8, 2026Yuemei Xu, Kexin Xu, Jian Zhou +3Multilingual Language Model EvaluationCultural Alignment

    School of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Foreign Studies University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · The State Key Lab of Software Development Environment, Beihang University

  4. Accurate in space, unreliable in time: how LLMs represent national cultural change

    Sep 1, 2026Yalda Daryani, Miranda Bogen, Madeleine I. G. DaeppLLM EvaluationCultural Evolution

    Department of Psychology, University of Southern California · Center for Democracy and Technology

  5. Aligned but Flattened: Analyzing the Trade-off between Cultural Alignment and Diversity in LLMs

    Sep 1, 2026Jingshen Zhang, Shaoyang Xu, Wenxuan ZhangLLM EvaluationCultural Alignment

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University · 2iNLP Lab, Singapore University of Technology and Design

  6. Pak3H: Evaluating the Cost of Cultural Mismatch in LLM Alignment with a Human-Contextualized Urdu Benchmark

    Aug 30, 2026Abdullah Hashmat, Usman Naseem, Agha Ali RazaMultilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Alignment

    School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia · Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

  7. Measuring Cross-Cultural Style Diffusion Through Era Classification: US and Korean Popular Music

    Aug 11, 2026Dasol Lee, Minhee Lee, Seonguk Ju +3Cultural Alignment

    Music & Arts Learning (MALer) Lab, Sogang University, South Korea · University of Cambridge

  8. LKValues: Aligning Large Language Models with Sri Lankan Societal Values

    Jul 22, 2026Nethmi Muthugala, Supryadi, Surangika Ranathunga +7Multilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Alignment

    TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka +2

  9. Pancasila-Dilemmas: Evaluating Large Language Models on Indonesian Human Value Dilemmas Grounded in Pancasila

    Jul 20, 2026Supryadi, Irfan, Julianti +4LLM EvaluationLLM Alignment

    TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China · Universitas Universal, Indonesia · Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China +2

  10. PLURAL: A Global Dataset for Value Alignment

    Jul 9, 2026Dhruv Agarwal, Anya Shukla, Tanya Goyal +1LLM AlignmentCultural Alignment

    Cornell University

  11. Plurification in/of language technology -- The integration of culture in next-generation AI

    Jun 20, 2026Gertraud Koch, Fausto GiunchigliaCultural AlignmentCultural Bias in Language Models

    University of Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 West, Germany · University of Trento, Dipartimento Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione

  12. The Culture Funnel: You Can't Align What isn't in the Data

    Jun 11, 2026Ananya Sahu, Mehrnaz Mofakhami, Daniel D'Souza +3Cultural AlignmentCultural Bias in Language Models

    CohereCorrespondingLabs

  13. Scenario-based Probing and Steering Cultural Values in Large Language Models--Extended Version

    Jun 9, 2026Trung Duc Anh Dang, Tung Kieu, Sarah MasudLanguage Model SteeringCultural Alignment

    University of Copenhagen · Aalborg University

  14. Culturally-Aware AI for Cross-Boundary Community Learning: Undergraduate Innovation at the Intersection of Computation and Design

    Jun 8, 2026Jiaojiao Zhao, Weisheng Zhang, Jiawen Cai +2Educational TechnologyAI in Education

    Duke Kunshan University, Suzhou, China · Zhouzhuang Mystery of Life Museum, Suzhou, China · Digital Innovation Research Center and Social Science Division, Duke Kunshan University. Address: Duke Avenue No.8, Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 215316.

  15. Whose Norms? Disentangling Cultural and Personal Alignment in Large Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Angana Borah, Isabelle Augenstein, Rada MihalceaLLM AlignmentNormative Conformity in Language Models

    University of Michigan - Ann Arbor · University of Copenhagen

  16. Memetic Capture: A Pluralistic Policy Framework for Governing AI-Driven Cultural Disempowerment

    Jun 5, 2026Subramanyam SahooCultural AlignmentAI Governance

    Horizon Research, City, Country.

  17. Korean Culture into LLM Alignment: Toward Cultural Coherence

    Jun 5, 2026MinJae Jung, Minwoo KimLLM Fine-TuningLLM Safety Alignment

    DATUMO Inc.

  18. SEA-NLI: Natural Language Inference as a Lens into Southeast Asian Cultural Understanding

    Jun 2, 2026Peerawat Chomphooyod, Jian Gang Ngui, Yosephine Susanto +5Multilingual Language Model EvaluationCross-Cultural Language Model Evaluation

    1Chulalongkorn University · 2AI Singapore · 3MBZUAI +1

  19. Toward Responsible and Epistemically Grounded Multilingual LLMs for Computational Social Science and Humanities

    May 30, 2026Wajdi ZaghouaniMultilingual Language Model EvaluationPolitical Discourse Analysis

    Northwestern University in Qatar

  20. Quantifying the Salience of Geo-Cultural Values for Pluralistic Safety Alignment

    May 29, 2026Arkadiy Saakyan, Charvi Rastogi, Lora AroyoLanguage Model Safety EvaluationCultural Alignment

    Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. · Google DeepMind, New York, NY, USA.

  21. Cultural Fidelity in English-to-Hindi Translation: A Preservation-Fluency Frontier for Gender Recoverability

    May 26, 2026Samyak Savi, Chavi Gupta, Shreyas Gantayet +2Cultural AlignmentMachine Translation

    BITS Pilani

  22. Cultural Value Alignment Via Latent Activation Steering in Large Language Models

    May 25, 2026Trung Duc Anh Dang, Sarah MasudCultural AlignmentCultural Bias in Language Models

    University of Copenhagen

  23. Beyond Literal Translation: Evaluating Cultural Effectiveness in Social Media UGC

    May 25, 2026Linjuan Wu, Ruiqi Zhang, Xinze Lyu +7Cultural AlignmentMachine Translation

    Zhejiang University · Xiaohongshu Inc. · Fudan University.

  24. Naturalistic measure of social norms alignment

    May 22, 2026Yevhen Kostiuk, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup +2Social DilemmasLLM Evaluation

    Aarhus University

  25. Defining Cultural Capabilities for AI Evaluation: A Taxonomy Grounded in Intercultural Communication Theory

    May 15, 2026Isar Nejadgholi, Masoud Kianpour, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla +1Cultural AlignmentGenerative AI Evaluation

    National Research Council, Canada · Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada · Mila, Quebec AI Institute, Canada

  26. Training-Free Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models via Persona Disagreement

    May 11, 2026Huynh Trung Kiet, Dao Sy Duy Minh, Tuan Nguyen +5LLM AlignmentCultural Alignment

    Faculty of Information and Technology, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. · Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. · School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, United Kingdom.

  27. Progressing beyond Art Masterpieces or Touristic Clichés: how to assess your LLMs for cultural alignment?

    Apr 28, 2026António Branco, João Silva, Nuno Marques +10Cultural AlignmentCultural Bias in Language Models

    †University of Lisbon · ‡University of Beira Interior

  28. AlignCultura: Towards Culturally Aligned Large Language Models?

    Apr 21, 2026Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Mark Dras, Usman NaseemCross-Cultural Language Model EvaluationCultural Alignment

    School of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia

  29. Jupiter-N Technical Report

    Apr 19, 2026George DraysonLLM AlignmentCultural Alignment

    Locai Labs, University College London

  30. C-Mining: Unsupervised Discovery of Seeds for Cultural Data Synthesis via Geometric Misalignment

    Apr 17, 2026Pufan Zeng, Yilun Liu, Mingchen Dai +12Multilingual Language ModelsSynthetic Data Generation

    Huawei, China · Huawei, Canada