Social Bias in Multilingual Language Models: A Survey

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Autori principali: Gamboa, Lance Calvin Lim, Feng, Yue, Lee, Mark
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author Gamboa, Lance Calvin Lim
Feng, Yue
Lee, Mark
author_facet Gamboa, Lance Calvin Lim
Feng, Yue
Lee, Mark
contents Pretrained multilingual models exhibit the same social bias as models processing English texts. This systematic review analyzes emerging research that extends bias evaluation and mitigation approaches into multilingual and non-English contexts. We examine these studies with respect to linguistic diversity, cultural awareness, and their choice of evaluation metrics and mitigation techniques. Our survey illuminates gaps in the field's dominant methodological design choices (e.g., preference for certain languages, scarcity of multilingual mitigation experiments) while cataloging common issues encountered and solutions implemented in adapting bias benchmarks across languages and cultures. Drawing from the implications of our findings, we chart directions for future research that can reinforce the multilingual bias literature's inclusivity, cross-cultural appropriateness, and alignment with state-of-the-art NLP advancements.
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spellingShingle Social Bias in Multilingual Language Models: A Survey
Gamboa, Lance Calvin Lim
Feng, Yue
Lee, Mark
Computation and Language
Pretrained multilingual models exhibit the same social bias as models processing English texts. This systematic review analyzes emerging research that extends bias evaluation and mitigation approaches into multilingual and non-English contexts. We examine these studies with respect to linguistic diversity, cultural awareness, and their choice of evaluation metrics and mitigation techniques. Our survey illuminates gaps in the field's dominant methodological design choices (e.g., preference for certain languages, scarcity of multilingual mitigation experiments) while cataloging common issues encountered and solutions implemented in adapting bias benchmarks across languages and cultures. Drawing from the implications of our findings, we chart directions for future research that can reinforce the multilingual bias literature's inclusivity, cross-cultural appropriateness, and alignment with state-of-the-art NLP advancements.
title Social Bias in Multilingual Language Models: A Survey
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20201