5 papers
Playing Games with My Heart: An Evaluation of AI Companion Apps
Maribeth Rauh, Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Matias Duran +7
The use of chatbots for various forms of companionship is growing rapidly, raising a myriad of questions about simulated relationships, emotional dependence, and psychological harm…
Phonetic Perturbations Reveal Tokenizer-Rooted Safety Gaps in LLMs
Darpan Aswal, Siddharth D Jaiswal
Safety-aligned LLMs remain vulnerable to digital phenomena like textese that introduce non-canonical perturbations to words but preserve the phonetics. We introduce CMP-RT (code-mi…
Judging by Appearances? Auditing and Intervening Vision-Language Models for Bail Prediction
Sagnik Basu, Shubham Prakash, Ashish Maruti Barge +4
Large language models (LLMs) have been extensively used for legal judgment prediction tasks based on case reports and crime history. However, with a surge in the availability of la…
Exploring Disparity-Accuracy Trade-offs in Face Recognition Systems: The Role of Datasets, Architectures, and Loss Functions
Siddharth D Jaiswal, Sagnik Basu, Sandipan Sikdar +1
Automated Face Recognition Systems (FRSs), developed using deep learning models, are deployed worldwide for identity verification and facial attribute analysis. The performance of…
DENOASR: Debiasing ASRs through Selective Denoising
Anand Kumar Rai, Siddharth D Jaiswal, Shubham Prakash +2
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been examined and shown to exhibit biases toward particular groups of individuals, influenced by factors such as demographic traits,…