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most citedProbing Intersectional Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples

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cs.LG2026

DreamReader: An Interpretability Toolkit for Text-to-Image Models

Nirmalendu Prakash, Narmeen Oozeer, Michael Lan +6

Despite the rapid adoption of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, causal and representation-level analysis remains fragmented and largely limited to isolated probing techniques.…

cs.CV2025

Probing the Representational Power of Sparse Autoencoders in Vision Models

Matthew Lyle Olson, Musashi Hinck, Neale Ratzlaff +4

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a popular tool for interpreting the hidden states of large language models (LLMs). By learning to reconstruct activations from a sparse b…

cs.CY2025

Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models: A Cross-Country Exploration

Avinash Madasu, Vasudev Lal, Phillip Howard

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in diverse cultural contexts, yet their internal biases remain poorly understood. In this work, we propose a novel framework…

cs.CV2025

Analyzing Hierarchical Structure in Vision Models with Sparse Autoencoders

Matthew Lyle Olson, Musashi Hinck, Neale Ratzlaff +4

The ImageNet hierarchy provides a structured taxonomy of object categories, offering a valuable lens through which to analyze the representations learned by deep vision models. In…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Learning from Reasoning Failures via Synthetic Data Generation

Gabriela Ben Melech Stan, Estelle Aflalo, Avinash Madasu +2

Training models on synthetic data has emerged as an increasingly important strategy for improving the performance of generative AI. This approach is particularly helpful for large…

cs.CV2025

LVLM-Compress-Bench: Benchmarking the Broader Impact of Large Vision-Language Model Compression

Souvik Kundu, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Sungduk Yu +6

Despite recent efforts in understanding the compression impact on large language models (LLMs) in terms of their downstream task performance and trustworthiness on relatively simpl…

cs.CV2025

Pruning the Paradox: How CLIP's Most Informative Heads Enhance Performance While Amplifying Bias

Avinash Madasu, Vasudev Lal, Phillip Howard

CLIP is one of the most popular foundation models and is heavily used for many vision-language tasks, yet little is known about its inner workings. As CLIP is increasingly deployed…

cs.CV2024

Debias your Large Multi-Modal Model at Test-Time via Non-Contrastive Visual Attribute Steering

Neale Ratzlaff, Matthew Lyle Olson, Musashi Hinck +4

Large Multi-Modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities as general-purpose chatbots able to engage in conversations about visual inputs. However, their responses…

cs.CV2024

Debiasing Large Vision-Language Models by Ablating Protected Attribute Representations

Neale Ratzlaff, Matthew Lyle Olson, Musashi Hinck +3

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) such as LLaVA have demonstrated impressive capabilities as general-purpose chatbots that can engage in conversations about a provided input ima…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Is Your Paper Being Reviewed by an LLM? Investigating AI Text Detectability in Peer Review

Sungduk Yu, Man Luo, Avinash Madasu +2

Peer review is a critical process for ensuring the integrity of published scientific research. Confidence in this process is predicated on the assumption that experts in the releva…

cs.CV2024

Quantifying and Enabling the Interpretability of CLIP-like Models

Avinash Madasu, Yossi Gandelsman, Vasudev Lal +1

CLIP is one of the most popular foundational models and is heavily used for many vision-language tasks. However, little is known about the inner workings of CLIP. To bridge this ga…

cs.CV2024

Uncovering Bias in Large Vision-Language Models at Scale with Counterfactuals

Phillip Howard, Kathleen C. Fraser, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla +1

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) possessing increasingly impressive capabilities, a number of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been proposed to augment LLMs…

cs.CV2024

Uncovering Bias in Large Vision-Language Models with Counterfactuals

Phillip Howard, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Kathleen C. Fraser +1

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) possessing increasingly impressive capabilities, a number of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been proposed to augment LLMs…

cs.CV2023

SocialCounterfactuals: Probing and Mitigating Intersectional Social Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples

Phillip Howard, Avinash Madasu, Tiep Le +3

While vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance improvements recently, there is growing evidence that these models also posses harmful biases with respect…

cs.AI2023★ 2 cited

NeuroPrompts: An Adaptive Framework to Optimize Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation

Shachar Rosenman, Vasudev Lal, Phillip Howard

Despite impressive recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models, obtaining high-quality images often requires prompt engineering by humans who have developed expertise in usin…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Probing Intersectional Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples

Phillip Howard, Avinash Madasu, Tiep Le +2

While vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance improvements recently, there is growing evidence that these models also posses harmful biases with respect…