3 papers
cs.CL2025
CARE: Multilingual Human Preference Learning for Cultural Awareness
Geyang Guo, Tarek Naous, Hiromi Wakaki +4
Language Models (LMs) are typically tuned with human preferences to produce helpful responses, but the impact of preference tuning on the ability to handle culturally diverse queri…
cs.CL2025
What are Foundation Models Cooking in the Post-Soviet World?
Anton Lavrouk, Tarek Naous, Alan Ritter +1
The culture of the Post-Soviet states is complex, shaped by a turbulent history that continues to influence current events. In this study, we investigate the Post-Soviet cultural f…
cs.CL2025
On The Origin of Cultural Biases in Language Models: From Pre-training Data to Linguistic Phenomena
Tarek Naous, Wei Xu
Language Models (LMs) have been shown to exhibit a strong preference towards entities associated with Western culture when operating in non-Western languages. In this paper, we aim…