Social Bias in Large Language Models For Bangla: An Empirical Study on Gender and Religious Bias
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03536, 2024•arxiv.org
The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has put forward the study of biases as a
crucial field. It is important to assess the influence of different types of biases embedded in
LLMs to ensure fair use in sensitive fields. Although there have been extensive works on
bias assessment in English, such efforts are rare and scarce for a major language like
Bangla. In this work, we examine two types of social biases in LLM generated outputs for
Bangla language. Our main contributions in this work are:(1) bias studies on two different …
crucial field. It is important to assess the influence of different types of biases embedded in
LLMs to ensure fair use in sensitive fields. Although there have been extensive works on
bias assessment in English, such efforts are rare and scarce for a major language like
Bangla. In this work, we examine two types of social biases in LLM generated outputs for
Bangla language. Our main contributions in this work are:(1) bias studies on two different …
The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has put forward the study of biases as a crucial field. It is important to assess the influence of different types of biases embedded in LLMs to ensure fair use in sensitive fields. Although there have been extensive works on bias assessment in English, such efforts are rare and scarce for a major language like Bangla. In this work, we examine two types of social biases in LLM generated outputs for Bangla language. Our main contributions in this work are: (1) bias studies on two different social biases for Bangla (2) a curated dataset for bias measurement benchmarking (3) two different probing techniques for bias detection in the context of Bangla. This is the first work of such kind involving bias assessment of LLMs for Bangla to the best of our knowledge. All our code and resources are publicly available for the progress of bias related research in Bangla NLP.
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