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NormViz: A Benchmark and Framework for Grounding Multimodal Reasoning in Global Cultures
Akhila Yerukola, Fabrice Y Harel-Canada, Simran Khanuja +5
AI systems are used worldwide, but they struggle to serve the needs of culturally diverse populations. Prior work on cultural understanding evaluates AI systems on text-only settin…
Mind the Gesture: Evaluating AI Sensitivity to Culturally Offensive Non-Verbal Gestures
Akhila Yerukola, Saadia Gabriel, Nanyun Peng +1
Gestures are an integral part of non-verbal communication, with meanings that vary across cultures, and misinterpretations that can have serious social and diplomatic consequences.…
Ambig-SWE: Interactive Agents to Overcome Underspecificity in Software Engineering
Sanidhya Vijayvargiya, Xuhui Zhou, Akhila Yerukola +2
AI agents are increasingly being deployed to automate tasks, often based on underspecified user instructions. Making unwarranted assumptions to compensate for the missing informati…