IndicFairFace: Balanced Indian Face Dataset for Auditing and Mitigating Geographical Bias in Vision-Language Models

Aarish Shah Mohsin, Mohammed Tayyab Ilyas Khan, Mohammad Nadeem +3

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are known to inherit and amplify societal biases from their web-scale training data with Indian being particularly misrepresented. Existing fairness-a…