Dialect Bias in Language Models

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  1. Does Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLMs? A Representation-Level Analysis

    Oct 8, 2026Abdu Sallouh, Nicholas Popovič, Michael FärberArabic NLPDialect Bias in Language Models

    Technical University of Dresden · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden

  2. Some Dialects Are More Equal Than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs

    Sep 21, 2026Mai Mohamed Eida, Ryan Dolan, Paul de Nijs +1Arabic NLPSocial Bias in Language Models

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  3. From a River in Gilead to the Inference Distributions of Large Language Models: Covert Dialect Bias and Linguistic Profiling at Scale

    Sep 16, 2026Chowdhury Mohammad Abdullah, Rita OrjiSocial Bias in Language ModelsDialect Bias in Language Models

    Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada

  4. The Dialect Tax: Dialectal Biases Persist throughout the Language Modeling Pipeline

    Aug 24, 2026ElleDialect Bias in Language ModelsLinguistic Bias in Language Models

    University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science

  5. DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation

    Jul 8, 2026Jordan Painter, Dipankar Srirag, Adarsh Kappiyath +3Language ModelingLLM Alignment

    Institute for People-Centred AI, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom · University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  6. LLMs Silently Correct African American English: Auditing and Mitigating Dialect Bias via Activation Steering

    Jul 7, 2026Huan Wu, Ali Emami, Muhammad Furquan Hassan +5Language Model SteeringSocial Bias in Language Models

    York University · Vector Institute · Connected Minds +6

  7. Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs

    Jul 4, 2026Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Omar Kallas +4Arabic NLPLLM Interpretability

    1Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · 2Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University · 3Tohoku University +1

  8. Side-by-side Comparison Amplifies Dialect Bias in Language Models

    May 23, 2026Kritee Kondapally, Claire J. Smerdon, Pooja C. Patel +5Social Bias in Language ModelsAlgorithmic Fairness

    University of Southern California, USA

  9. Dialect vs Demographics: Quantifying LLM Bias from Implicit Linguistic Signals vs. Explicit User Profiles

    Apr 22, 2026Irti Haq, Belén SaldíasLanguage Model Safety EvaluationSocial Bias in Language Models

    University of Washington, USA

  10. DIA-HARM: Dialectal Disparities in Harmful Content Detection Across 50 English Dialects

    Apr 7, 2026Jason Lucas, Matt Murtagh, Ali Al-Lawati +3Fake News DetectionDialect Bias in Language Models

    The Pennsylvania State University, USA · Trinity College Dublin, Ireland · MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

  11. Benchmarking Bengali Dialectal Bias: A Multi-Stage Framework Integrating RAG-Based Translation and Human-Augmented RLAIF

    Mar 22, 2026K. M. Jubair Sami, Dipto Sumit, Ariyan Hossain +1Social Bias in Language ModelsDialect Bias in Language Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  12. Analysis Of Linguistic Stereotypes in Single and Multi-Agent Generative AI Architectures

    Mar 19, 2026Martina Ullasci, Marco Rondina, Riccardo Coppola +6Dialect Bias in Language ModelsLinguistic Bias in Language Models

    Politecnico di Torino Turin, Italy

  13. Evaluating the Usage of African-American Vernacular English in Large Language Models

    Feb 25, 2026Deja Dunlap, R. Thomas McCoyDialect Bias in Language ModelsLinguistic Bias in Language Models

    Yale University, New Haven CT 06511, USA

  14. Cross-Lingual Sentiment Misalignment: Auditing Multilingual Language Models for Inversion Risk, Dialectal Representation, and Affective Stability

    Feb 19, 2026Nusrat Jahan Lia, Shubhashis Roy DiptaDialect Bias in Language ModelsCross-Lingual Consistency in Language Models

    Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh · University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA