2 papers
cs.LG2025
Can SAEs reveal and mitigate racial biases of LLMs in healthcare?
Hiba Ahsan, Byron C. Wallace
LLMs are increasingly being used in healthcare. This promises to free physicians from drudgery, enabling better care to be delivered at scale. But the use of LLMs in this space als…
cs.CL2025
Elucidating Mechanisms of Demographic Bias in LLMs for Healthcare
Hiba Ahsan, Arnab Sen Sharma, Silvio Amir +2
We know from prior work that LLMs encode social biases, and that this manifests in clinical tasks. In this work we adopt tools from mechanistic interpretability to unveil sociodemo…