Large language models (LLMs) increasingly influence global digital ecosystems, yet their potential to perpetuate social and cultural biases remains poorly understood in underrepresented contexts. This study presents a systematic analysis of representational biases in seven state-of-the-art LLMs: GPT-4o-mini, Claude-3-Sonnet, Claude-4-Sonnet, Gemini-2.0-Flash, Gemini-2.0-Lite, Llama-3-70B, and Mistral-Nemo in the Nepali cultural context. Using Croissant-compliant dataset of 2400+ stereotypical and anti-stereotypical sentence pairs on gender roles across social domains, we implement an evaluation framework, Dual-Metric Bias Assessment (DMBA), combining two metrics: (1) agreement with biased statements and (2) stereotypical completion tendencies. Results show models exhibit measurable explicit agreement bias, with mean bias agreement ranging from 0.36 to 0.43 across decoding configurations, and an implicit completion bias rate of 0.740-0.755. Importantly, implicit completion bias follows a non-linear, U-shaped relationship with temperature, peaking at moderate stochasticity (T=0.3) and declining slightly at higher temperatures. Correlation analysis under different decoding settings revealed that explicit agreement strongly aligns with stereotypical sentence agreement but is a weak and often negative predictor of implicit completion bias, indicating generative bias is poorly captured by agreement metrics. Sensitivity analysis shows increasing top-p amplifies explicit bias, while implicit generative bias remains largely stable. Domain-level analysis shows implicit bias is strongest for race and sociocultural stereotypes, while explicit agreement bias is similar across gender and sociocultural categories, with race showing the lowest explicit agreement. These findings highlight the need for culturally grounded datasets and debiasing strategies for LLMs in underrepresented societies.
Evaluating Large Language Models' Responses to Sexual and Reproductive Health Queries in Nepali
Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research(尼泊尔应用数学与信息学研究所);Partnership for Sustainable Development Nepal(尼泊尔可持续发展伙伴关系);Visible Impact(可见影响)
Creating and Evaluating Code-Mixed Nepali-English and Telugu-English Datasets for Abusive Language Detection Using Traditional and Deep Learning Models
NusaWrites: Constructing High-Quality Corpora for Underrepresented and Extremely Low-Resource Languages
HKUST(香港科技大学);IndoNLP(印尼自然语言处理研究所);MBZUAI(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);Bina Nusantara University(建国大学);Bloomberg(彭博社);Institut Teknologi Bandung(万隆理工学院);Kanda University of International Studies(神田外语大学)
On Generalization across Measurement Systems: LLMs Entail More Test-Time Compute for Underrepresented Cultures
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz(明斯特-雅各布大学);University of Mannheim(曼海姆大学);Center For Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Würzburg(乌尔姆大学人工智能与数据科学中心);University of Colorado Boulder(科罗拉多大学博尔德分校)
Culture-TRIP: Culturally-Aware Text-to-Image Generation with Iterative Prompt Refinement
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dongguk University(计算机科学与工程系,东国大学);Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Dongguk University(计算机科学与人工智能系,东国大学)
Seeing Symbols, Missing Cultures: Probing Vision-Language Models' Reasoning on Fire Imagery and Cultural Meaning
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee(邓迪大学邓迪艺术与设计学院(DJCAD));Guangzhou Institute of Science and Technology (GZIST)(广州科学技术研究院);Faculty of Arts, Xiamen University(厦门大学艺术学院);University of Birmingham(伯明翰大学)
BavGround: A Benchmark for Regional Cultural Grounding and Dialect Competence in Bavarian
Stanford University(斯坦福大学);Freie Universität Berlin(柏林自由大学);Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich(慕尼黑大学信息与语言处理中心);Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)(慕尼黑机器学习中心);Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)(莱布尼茨超级计算中心)
Do LLMs Use Cultural Knowledge Without Being Told? A Multilingual Evaluation of Implicit Pragmatic Adaptation
Network Analysis and Social Influence Modelling (NASIM) Lab(网络分析与社会影响力建模实验室);School of Physics Maths and Computing(物理数学与计算学院);The University of Western Australia(西澳大学);School of Computing(计算学院);Macquarie University(麦考瑞大学);Computational Social Science & Systems Analysis(计算社会科学与系统分析);University of Münster(明斯特大学)
Mod-Guide: An LLM-based Content Moderation Feedback System to Address Insensitive Speech toward Indigenous Ethnic and Religious Minority Communities
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto(计算机科学系,多伦多大学);Independent University Bangladesh(孟加拉国独立大学);Indiana University(印第安纳大学);Faculty of Information, University of Toronto(信息学院,多伦多大学)
LaoBench: A Large-Scale Multidimensional Lao Benchmark for Large Language Models
China-ASEAN Information Harbor Co., Ltd.(中国-东盟信息港有限公司);Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence(北京人工智能研究院);School of Software & Microelectronics, Peking University(北京大学软件与微电子学院)
HalluScore: Large Language Model Hallucination Question Answering Benchmark
Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals(国王法赫德石油与矿物大学信息与计算机科学系);SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence(SDAIA-KFUPM人工智能联合研究中心)
Cross-Lingual Probing and Community-Grounded Analysis of Gender Bias in Low-Resource Bengali
Department of Computer Science(计算机科学系);AIUB, Dhaka, Bangladesh;Department of Information Technology(信息科技系);Wilmington University, Delaware, USA;WUST, Virginia, USA;Faculty of Information Science(信息科学系);Technology Multimedia University, Melaka, Malaysia(技术多媒体大学, Melaka, Malaysia);Centre for Intelligent Cloud Computing(智能云计算中心)
LLM Safety Alignment in Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)(非洲数学科学研究所);Bayero University Kano(卡诺贝罗大学);Brown University(布朗大学);Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica(数学与计算机科学中心);University of Pretoria(比勒陀利亚大学);University of Hamburg(汉堡大学);Imperial College London(伦敦帝国学院)
FFE-Hallu:Hallucinations in Fixed Figurative Expressions:Benchmark of Idioms and Proverbs in the Persian Language
Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Khatam University, Iran(德黑兰高级研究 institute,Khatam 大学,伊朗);School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran(电气与计算机工程学院,工程学院,德黑兰大学,德黑兰,伊朗)
Empowering Persian LLMs for Instruction Following: A Novel Dataset and Training Approach
Isfahan University of Technology(伊斯法罕理工大学);Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman(克尔曼沙希德·巴霍纳尔大学);University of Tehran(德黑兰大学);Hunter College, City University of New York(纽约市立大学亨特学院)
AMALIA Technical Report: A Fully Open Source Large Language Model for European Portuguese
NOVA School of Science and Technology(新大学科学与技术学院);NOVA LINCS(新大学LINCS实验室);Instituto de Telecomunicações(电信研究所);Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa(里斯本大学高等技术学院);Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia(科学技术基金会)
TowerVision: Understanding and Improving Multilinguality in Vision-Language Models
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa(里斯本大学技术高级学院);Instituto de Telecomunicações(电信研究所);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);Sword Health(Sword健康);TransPerfect;MICS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay(MICS,中央圣艾尔布里大学,巴黎萨克雷大学);ELLIS Unit Lisbon(里斯本ELLIS单位)
BLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages
KAIST(韩国科学技术院);Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);Universität Hamburg(汉堡大学);Bahir Dar University(巴赫达尔大学);NAVER AI Lab(NAVER人工智能实验室);Imperial College London(伦敦帝国学院)
AraTrust: An Evaluation of Trustworthiness for LLMs in Arabic
Center of Research Excellence in AI and Data Science(人工智能与数据科学卓越研究中心);King Abdulaziz University(阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王大学);ASAS AI(ASAS人工智能公司);University College London(伦敦大学学院);University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Alexandria University(亚历山大大学)