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  1. The Missing Minimal Pair: Stereotype Evaluation in LLMs

    Oct 6, 2026Nataliya Stepanova, Ivan Titov, Emily Allaway +1Large Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Evaluation

    University of Edinburgh · University of Amsterdam

  2. Latent space bias directions in LLMs capture confidence, not fairness

    Oct 6, 2026Stephanie Buttigieg, Maeve Madigan, Parameswaran Kamalaruban +1Linear Activation SteeringLarge Language Model Bias

    Institute of Astronomy & Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK · Risk and Security AI Lab, Visa Inc., Cambridge, UK

  3. OMIT the Action: Measuring Framing-Invariant Omission Bias under Philosophical Disagreement

    Oct 6, 2026Sihyeon Lee, Jihun Song, Chanwoo Kim +2Moral ReasoningLarge Language Model Bias

    Soongsil University

  4. Noise Out, Bias In: Targeted Bias Injection in Diffusion Language Models via Closed-Loop Activation Steering

    Oct 5, 2026Sarim Hashmi, Mukul Ranjan, Abdelrahman Elsayed +3Large Language Model BiasAttacker Large Language Model

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

  5. Usage-Modulated Sentiment Representations in Large Language Models

    Oct 4, 2026Hongfei Du, Jiacheng Shi, Yanfu Zhang +2SentimentLarge Language Model Bias

    Department of Computer Science, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

  6. Counterfactual Auditing of Bias in Open-Source Large Language Models for Clinical Triage

    Oct 1, 2026Manar Aljohani, Brandon Ho, Kenneth McKinley +2Large Language Model BiasTriage

    Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, US · Division of Emergency Medicine University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital Seattle, WA, USA · Children’s National Hospital Washington DC, USA

  7. A Shared Taste for Model-Written Text: The Generator-by-Selector Matrices of "AI-AI Bias" Show No Detectable Own-Model Premium

    Sep 30, 2026Dmitrij ŻatuchinLarge Language Model BiasHuman-Written Text

    Department of Information Technologies, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (EUAS), Tallinn, Estonia. · Rankfor.AI, Wroc law, Poland; Tallinn, Estonia.

  8. Population Fidelity: Evaluating Population Representativeness in LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Neemias B. da Silva, Martin Lukk, Ali Sutani +5Large Language Model BiasDemographics

    University of Toronto, Canada · Federal University of Technology – Paran´a, Brazil

  9. HEAR: Real Voices, Real Bias: A Large-Scale Human-Recorded, Demographically Diverse Benchmark for Audio Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Shen Yan, Duc Le, Irina-Elena VelicheLarge Audio Language ModelsSeed-Tts-Eval Benchmark

    Meta Superintelligence Labs

  10. Narrowing the Horizon: Quantifying Topic Saliency Shifts in Generative Monoculture

    Sep 28, 2026Oriane Peter, Elena Simperl, Kate DevlinLarge Language Model BiasSaliency

    King’s College London London, United Kingdom

  11. Over-Personalization Is a Decision Failure: Generation-Induced Apply Bias in LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Haeun Jang, Yonghyun Jun, Hwanhee LeeLarge Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Bias

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University

  12. Who Gets a Token, and What Does It Carry? Unequal Name Support and Concept Access in Large Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood RafieiLarge Language Model BiasGender

    Department of Computing Science University of Alberta

  13. RupeeBias: Auditing Demographic Bias in Indian Economic Guidance from Large Language Models

    Sep 25, 2026Pavithra P M Nair, Bhavik Talaviya, Shourya Bhushan +5Large Language Model BiasBiases

    Center for Cybersecurity Systems & Networks, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India · Unique Identification Authority of India, Delhi, India

  14. The Limits of Simulated Societies: How Post-Training and Survey Fine-Tuning Erase Cross-Cultural Variance

    Sep 22, 2026Rojin ZiaeiLarge Language Model BiasComputational Social Science

    Georgetown University

  15. Summarization Bias: The Directional Collapse of Objective Projection into Told-Mode Labels in Large Language Models --- A Conceptual Framework and Registered Test Protocol

    Sep 17, 2026Levent BulutLarge Language Model BiasSummarization

    Independent Researcher

  16. Geopolitical Divisions Across Languages in Large Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Maxim ChupilkinGeopolitical Grounding InteractsPolitical Discourse

    Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  17. DyMT-ESB: Dynamic Multi-Turn Evaluation of Social Bias in User-LLM Interactions

    Sep 16, 2026Rem Hida, Masahiro Kaneko, Daisuke Oba +2Large Language Model BiasMulti-Turn Interactions

    Institute of Science Tokyo · MBZUAI · Third Intelligence +1

  18. Linguistic Triggers of Gender and Racial Bias in Open-Weight LLMs Applied to Recruitment

    Sep 16, 2026Kosuke Kitahara, Nobuhiro YamaguchiLarge Language Model BiasGender

    Recruit Co., Ltd. 1-9-2 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6640 Japan

  19. 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 OrjiLarge Language Model BiasDialects

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

  20. The Role of Implicit and Explicit Demographic Signals in Large Language Model-based Student Assessment

    Sep 15, 2026Donya Rooein, Luca Benedetto, Dirk HovyLarge Language Model BiasComputerized Adaptive Testing

    Bocconi University, Milan, Italy · Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France

  21. Beyond the Name: Demographic Leakage in De-Identified Résumés and Evaluation Artifacts in LLM Bias Audits

    Sep 15, 2026Qiangju Chen, Yang XiaoLarge Language Model BiasData Leakage

    Macquarie University · The University of Melbourne

  22. FairLint-DL: An IDE-Native Tool for Fairness Debugging of Deep Learning Software

    Sep 14, 2026Archit Rathod, Saeid Tizpaz-NiariAlgorithmic FairnessLarge Language Model Bias

    University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, USA

  23. EduFair-Bench: Evaluating Pedagogical Fairness of LLM Tutors Across Student Demographics

    Sep 14, 2026Jiaxu Zhao, Bahar Radmehr, Fares Fawzi +2TutorsLarge Language Model Bias

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  24. When Noise Fabricates Bias: The Fragility of LLM-as-a-Judge Bias Measurement under Noisy Text

    Sep 10, 2026DongHyun Ryu, Jaehyeok Lee, YeongJun Hwang +1Large Language Model BiasLlm-As-A-Judge

    Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

  25. DiSCo: A Distribution-First Steering and Cultural Prior Evaluation Framework for Measuring Cultural Preference Bias in LLMs

    Sep 9, 2026Bhuvan Arora, Devesh Saraogi, Sravya Varada +1Large Language Model BiasMulti-Dimensional Evaluation

    BITS Pilani, Pilani, India.

  26. Reference-Based Bias Detection in LLMs via Relative Representations of Hidden States

    Sep 9, 2026Marek Jeliński, Jan Dubiński, Maciej Chrabaszcz +1Large Language Model BiasModel Auditing

    NASK - National Research Institute, Poland · Warsaw University of Technology, Poland · Gda´nsk University of Technology, Poland

  27. Deep and shallow biases in language models

    Sep 9, 2026An Vo, Vy Tuong Dang, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen +4Large Language Model BiasBiases

    MBZUAI · University of Michigan · KAIST +2

  28. The Audit Decides the Verdict: Instrument Effects Rival Demographic Bias in LLM Decision Audits

    Sep 8, 2026Siddharth Vohra, Manikandan RavikiranLarge Language Model BiasModel Auditing

    Carnegie Mellon University Amazon Web Services AI Native Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India

  29. Navigating the digital spectrum: Assessing political bias, stability, and downstream fairness in Large Language Models

    Sep 8, 2026Luka Debevc, Nishan Chatterjee, Antoine Doucet +2Large Language Model BiasHate Speech Detection

    1Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia · University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia · 2Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia +1

  30. From Echo Chambers to Epistemic Monoculture: Large Language Models Present Temporally Contingent Partisan Alignments as Knowledge

    Sep 7, 2026Wend K. TamPolitical DiscourseLarge Language Model Alignment

    National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

    Sep 1, 2026Jingshen Zhang, Shaoyang Xu, Wenxuan ZhangLarge Language Model AlignmentCultural Awareness

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

  32. Authority Bias in Conversational Search Engines for Academic Paper Recommendation

    Aug 31, 2026Uthman Jinadu, Parsa Ghazvinian, Anjila Budathoki +3Large Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Decisions

    Georgia State University · University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  33. LLM-as-a-Demographic: Whom Sociodemographic Prompting Helps, and Whom It Hurts

    Aug 31, 2026Daniela Occhipinti, Andrea Piergentili, Marco GueriniDemographicsLarge Language Model Bias

    Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy · Almawave Labs, Via Di Casal Boccone, 188/190, Rome

  34. LLM-Driven Autonomous Vehicles Inherit Human Driver Biases in Pedestrian Yielding: Results and Implications From A New Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Irem Yoldas, Martim Brandão, Jie Zhang +1Large Language Model BiasAutomated Vehicles

    King’s College London, UK

  35. Evaluating and Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ Biases in German and Multilingual Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Melina Morch, Daniel BraunLarge Language Model BiasMultilingual Benchmark

    Marburg University · Computer Science · Cultural Data Studies +2

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

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

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

  37. Definitional Sensitivity in Media Bias Detection: A Multi-Definition Dataset and Benchmark

    Aug 24, 2026Martin Wessel, Timo Spinde, Jürgen Pfeffer +1Large Language Model BiasTask Framing

    Technical University of Munich · Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) · National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo +1

  38. Locating and Controlling Implicit Personalization in Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Yueru Yan, Siqi Wu, Thai LeLarge Language Model PersonalizationLarge Language Model Bias

    Indiana University Bloomington, USA

  39. Every Token Counts: Exact Likert-Scale Distributions for Measuring LLM Attitudes and Biases

    Aug 11, 2026Davood Wadi, Mohsen Ghodrat, Matthew PhilpLarge Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Evaluation

    McGill University · University Canada West · Marketing Management +1

  40. Subjective Multi-Bias Detection with Large Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Ruiyu Li, Zhiying ZhuLarge Language Model BiasText Corpora

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

  41. Same Question, Different Answer? Measuring and Mitigating Prompt Privilege for Equitable AI Access

    Aug 9, 2026Lier Jin, Lan Hu, Binqi Shen +2Prompt EngineeringLarge Language Model Bias

    Fuqua School of Business Duke University Durham, USA · Department of Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA · Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Northwestern University Evanston, USA +1

  42. Fair on the Surface? Benchmarking Hidden-Output Fairness Gaps in LLM Recommenders

    Aug 8, 2026Chan Aristella Lu, Arya Fayyazi, Junhao Zhang +6Fairness AuditsLarge Language Model Bias

    University of Georgia · University of Southern California · Carnegie Mellon University +1

  43. People Are Not Just Their Countries. Disentangling Social Determinants of LLM Value Alignment Across Europe

    Aug 7, 2026Maria-Louisa Wightman, Guillaume Bied, Tijl De BieHuman ValuesLarge Language Model Alignment

    Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS), Ghent University

  44. Confirming Our Biases? Evaluating the Capabilities, Risks, and Societal Impact of Large Language Models

    Aug 7, 2026Mudar Adas, Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke +1Large Language Model BiasTask Framing

    Neuro-Cognitive Modeling Group, University of Tübingen, Sand 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany · Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Keplerstraße 2, 72074 Tübingen

  45. Does Splitting a Triage Decision Across Agents Hide Bias or Help Catch It? A Multi-Agent Simulation Study of LLM-Based Resource Allocation Under Audit Capacity Constraints

    Aug 7, 2026Paul-Peter ArslanLarge Language Model BiasTriage

    Institute for Future Technologies

  46. Bias Analysis of L2 Speaking Assessment Systems Using Concept Activation Vectors

    Aug 6, 2026Arya Labroo, Mengjie Qian, Kate KnillSpeakerLarge Language Model Bias

    University of Cambridge

  47. Poli-Bias: Understanding and Measuring Large Language Model Biases in International Political Conflicts

    Aug 6, 2026Massi-Nissa Abboud, Aladin Djuhera, Elena Cabrio +1Large Language Model BiasGeopolitical Grounding Interacts

    Université Côte d’Azur · Technical University Munich

  48. Mitigating Scoring Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge via Random Number Generation

    Aug 6, 2026Yuma Asato, Kiyoaki Shirai, Natthawut KertkeidkachornLarge Language Model BiasLlm-As-A-Judge

    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  49. Measuring and Detecting Harmful AI Sycophancy

    Aug 6, 2026Bohan Jiang, Dawei Li, Yasin Silva +1SycophancyLarge Language Model Bias

    1Arizona State University · 2Loyola University Chicago

  50. Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences

    Aug 5, 2026Amanda Popadich, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldLanguage ModelingLarge Language Model Bias

    Department of Linguistics, University of Washington

  51. The Fairness Collapse Phenomenon: Bias Amplification in Language Models Trained on Synthetic Data

    Aug 4, 2026Irina Proskurina, Antoine Gourru, Julien VelcinLarge Language Model BiasSynthetic Data

    Laboratoire Hubert Curien, UMR CNRS 5516, Saint-Étienne, France · Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université Lumière Lyon 2, ERIC · École Centrale de Lyon, LIRIS, CNRS UMR 5205

  52. Cross-Lingual Bias in Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of English and Swahili

    Aug 4, 2026Ruolei Zhang, Teddy Njuguna, Yue FengLarge Language Model BiasCross-Lingual Consistency

    University of Birmingham

  53. Human-LLM Alignment in Language Attitudes Toward Non-Native Japanese

    Aug 3, 2026Naho Orita, Hayato Ogawa, Daisuke KawaharaLarge Language Model BiasLanguage Pairs

    Waseda University

  54. A Heuristic Perspective on Debiasing Language Models

    Aug 1, 2026Tian Lan, Yemin Wang, Chuancheng Shi +6Large Language Model BiasDebiasing

    Inner Mongolia University · Xiamen University · University of Sydney +3

  55. The persuasive power of large language models does not depend on their perceived national origin

    Jul 31, 2026Ningzhi Liu, Yannic Hinrichs, Jonas R. KunstPersuasionSocial Influence

    Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway · Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

  56. FairFund-Bench: Evaluating Distributive Bias in LLM Resource Allocation

    Jul 31, 2026Martin LukkLarge Language Model BiasFairness Audits

    University of Toronto

  57. AI systems and the reproduction of (standard) language ideologies in World Englishes

    Jul 30, 2026Kingsley UgwuanyiLanguage PairsLarge Language Model Bias

    University of Nigeria, Nsukka · King’s College London · SOAS, University of London

  58. Fairness Pruning: Locating Demographic Bias in GLU-MLP Layers via Differential Activations

    Jul 30, 2026Pere Martra, Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Alfonso Ureña LópezLarge Language Model BiasModel Activations

    Universidad Internacional Men´endez Pelayo Barcelona, Spain · Departamento de Inform´atica Universidad de Ja´en Ja´en, Spain

  59. From Minds to Models: The Intersection of Psychology and LLM Behaviours

    Jul 30, 2026Oliver Guidetti, Reza RyanLarge Language Model BiasPsychology

    School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. · School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia.

  60. OptimismBench: Forecasting Bias and the Alignment Effect in Language Model Judgment

    Jul 29, 2026Seonglae Cho, Adriano KoshiyamaLarge Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Alignment

    1Holistic AI · University College London