Linguistic Bias in Language Models

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  1. AmchiBias: Measuring Stereotypical Bias in Goan Identity Groups with a Minimal Pair Dataset in English and Konkani

    Jun 13, 2026Michelle Barbosa, Sebastian Padó, Franziska WeeberMultilingual Language Model EvaluationCultural Bias in Language Models

    Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart

  2. The Shibboleth Effect: Auditing the Cross-Lingual Distributional Skew of Large Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Hakan MehmetcikMultilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Auditing

    Visiting Researcher, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA · Prof of International Relations, at the Faculty of Political Science, Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  3. It Takes One to Bias Them All: Breaking Bad with One-Shot GRPO

    Jun 9, 2026Naihao Deng, Yilun Zhu, Naichen Shi +2LLM AlignmentSocial Bias in Language Models

    University of Michigan · Northwestern University

  4. The Amplifying Mirror: Locating and Steering the Partisan Direction inside a Large Language Model

    Jun 7, 2026Wendy K. TamLLM InterpretabilityPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Professor and Stevenson Chair in the Departments of Political Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, and the Law School at Vanderbilt University

  5. Epistemic Injustice in Language Models: An Audit of Pretraining Filters and Guardrails

    Jun 4, 2026Marco Antonio Stranisci, A Pranav, Rossana Damiano +2LLM GuardrailsTraining Data Curation

    University of Turin, Italy · Trustworthy AI Lab, University of Hamburg, Germany · IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  6. On the Persistent Effects of Lexicality in Large Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026Hammad Rizwan, Muhammad Umair Haider, Nishant Subramani +3LLM InterpretabilityLanguage Modeling

    Dalhousie University Halifax, NS · University of Kentucky Lexington, KY · Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

  7. Mechanistic Diagnostics of Spatial Lexical Bias in Multimodal Large Language Model Spatial Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Chuang Ma, Qianying Liu, Tomoyuki Obuchi +6VLM RobustnessVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Kyoto University · NII LLMC · RIKEN AIP +4

  8. IndoBias: A Dual Track Culturally Grounded Benchmark for LLMs Bias Evaluation in Indonesian Languages

    May 31, 2026Ikhlasul Akmal Hanif, Muhammad Falensi Azmi, Filbert Aurelian Tjiaranata +2Multilingual Language Model EvaluationCultural Bias in Language Models

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Independent Researcher · Universitas Indonesia

  9. Isolating LLM Lexical Bias: A Curation-Free Triangulated Metric for Preference-Stage Learning

    May 29, 2026Xiaoyang Ming, Jose Hernandez, Thomas Stephan JuzekLLM AlignmentLLM Fine-Tuning

    Florida State University

  10. Anchoring LLM Gender Bias to Human Baselines: A Cross-Lingual Audit

    May 29, 2026Jiwoo Choi, Seonwoo Ahn, Tongxin Zhang +1Gender Bias in Language ModelsMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, KAIST, South Korea

  11. COFT: Counterfactual-Conformal Decoding for Fair Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

    May 28, 2026Arya Fayyazi, Mehdi Kamal, Massoud PedramSocial Bias in Language ModelsCounterfactual Fairness

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

  12. When English Rewrites Local Knowledge: Global Narrative Dominance in Large Language Models

    May 28, 2026Md Arid Hasan, Ruwad Naswan, Farhan Samir +2Multilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Grounding

    University of Toronto · BUET · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  13. GRUFF: LLM Pronoun Fidelity, Reasoning, and Biases in German

    May 28, 2026Fabian Mewes, Anne Lauscher, Vagrant GautamGender Bias in Language ModelsLinguistic Bias in Language Models

    JobMatchMe GmbH, Germany · Trustworthy AI Lab, University of Hamburg, Germany · Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany

  14. DEPART: DEcomposing PARiTy across Multilingual LLMs

    May 27, 2026Manan Uppadhyay, Prashant Kodali, Pranjal Chitale +3Multilingual Language Model EvaluationCross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models

    Microsoft Research India · IIT Gandhinagar

  15. Auditing Stance Asymmetry in Generative Explanations

    May 27, 2026Jiarui HanLanguage Model Generation EvaluationSocial Bias in Language Models

  16. SomaliBench Eval: Measuring English-to-Somali Refusal Gaps in Open-Weight Language Models

    May 25, 2026Khalid Yusuf DahirLLM Safety BenchmarksMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    Independent researcher

  17. 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

  18. Reducing Political Manipulation with Consistency Training

    May 21, 2026Long Phan, Devin Kim, Alexander Pan +3Social Bias in Language ModelsPolitical Bias in Language Models

    Center for AI Safety · UC Berkeley

  19. Toward LLMs Beyond English-Centric Development

    May 15, 2026Sho Takase, Ukyo HondaMultilingual Language ModelsContinual Learning for LLMs

    CyberAgent

  20. Fair outputs, Biased Internals: Causal Potency and Asymmetry of Latent Bias in LLMs for High-Stakes Decisions

    May 12, 2026Jagdish Tripathy, Marcus BuckmannLLM AuditingImplicit Bias

    Bank of England

  21. BiAxisAudit: A Novel Framework to Evaluate LLM Bias Across Prompt Sensitivity and Response-Layer Divergence

    May 9, 2026Jialing Gan, Junhao Dong, Songze LiPrompt SensitivityLLM Auditing

    Southeast University, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  22. Is She Even Relevant? When BERT Ignores Explicit Gender Cues

    May 8, 2026Jonas Klein, Chiara Manna, Eva VanmassenhoveLanguage Model PretrainingGender Bias in Language Models

    Department of Computational Cognitive Science, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 AB Tilburg, Netherlands

  23. Decoding-Time Debiasing via Process Reward Models: From Controlled Fill-in to Open-Ended Generation

    May 4, 2026Muneeb Ur Raheem KhanDebiased MLLanguage Model Decoding

    Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

  24. What Kind of Language is Easy to Language-Model Under Curriculum Learning?

    Apr 29, 2026Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted BriscoeInductive BiasLinguistic Bias in Language Models

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

  25. An Investigation of Linguistic Biases in LLM-Based Recommendations

    Apr 28, 2026Nitin Venkateswaran, Jason Ang, Deep Adhikari +1Language Model Bias EvaluationLinguistic Bias in Language Models

    University of Florida

  26. All Languages Matter: Understanding and Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual RAG

    Apr 22, 2026Dan Wang, Guozhao Mo, Yafei Shi +9Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLLM Reranking

    Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · MYbank, AntGroup

  27. Location Not Found: Exposing Implicit Local and Global Biases in Multilingual LLMs

    Apr 21, 2026Guy Mor-Lan, Omer Goldman, Matan Eyal +6Multilingual Language ModelsMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    GGoogle Research · BBar-Ilan University · CUniversity of Cambridge +1

  28. Contrastive Analysis of Linguistic Representations in Large Language Model Outputs through Structured Synthetic Data Generation and Abstracted N-gram Associations

    Apr 19, 2026S. A. Desimone, L. Alonso AlemanySocial Bias in Language ModelsLanguage Model Bias Evaluation

    Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba · CONICET

  29. How Does "English (US)" Become the Default? Triangulating Structural Bias Towards American English Across the LLM Pipeline

    Apr 5, 2026Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood RafieiLanguage Model PretrainingLLM Auditing

    Department of Computing Science University of Alberta

  30. Investigating Social Bias Changes in Quantized Language Models

    Feb 5, 2026Stanley Z. Hua, Sanae Lotfi, Irene Y. ChenLLM QuantizationSocial Bias in Language Models

    UC Berkeley & UCSF · Meta Superintelligence Labs