most citedUnmasking Implicit Bias: Evaluating Persona-Prompted LLM Responses in Power-Disparate Social Scenarios

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cs.CL2026

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan +30

Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking pract…

cs.CY2026

Can Persona-Prompted LLMs Emulate Subgroup Values? An Empirical Analysis of Generalisability and Fairness in Cultural Alignment

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Zhengyuan Liu, Xiaoyuan Yi +4

Despite their global prevalence, many Large Language Models (LLMs) are aligned to a monolithic, often Western-centric set of values. This paper investigates the more challenging ta…

cs.CY2026

Small Changes, Big Impact: Demographic Bias in LLM-Based Hiring Through Subtle Sociocultural Markers in Anonymised Resumes

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Shaun Khoo, Bich Ngoc Doan +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in resume screening pipelines. Although explicit PII (e.g., names) is commonly redacted, resumes typically retain subtle soci…

cs.CY20251 cited

The Imperfect Learner: Incorporating Developmental Trajectories in Memory-based Student Simulation

Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin, Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan +5

User simulation is important for developing and evaluating human-centered AI, yet current student simulation in educational applications has significant limitations. Existing appro…

cs.CL2025

MMA-ASIA: A Multilingual and Multimodal Alignment Framework for Culturally-Grounded Evaluation

Weihua Zheng, Zhengyuan Liu, Tanmoy Chakraborty +32

Large language models (LLMs) are now used worldwide, yet their multimodal understanding and reasoning often degrade outside Western, high-resource settings. We propose MMA-ASIA, a…

cs.CV2025

BLEnD-Vis: Benchmarking Multimodal Cultural Understanding in Vision Language Models

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Zheng Weihua, Zhengyuan Liu +4

As vision-language models (VLMs) are deployed globally, their ability to understand culturally situated knowledge becomes essential. Yet, existing evaluations largely assess static…