Cross-Cultural Value Awareness in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2604.09945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in recent years has been accompanied by growing fairness concerns due to their propensity to reinforce harmful societal stereotypes. While significant attention has been paid to such fairness concerns in the context of social biases, relatively little prior work has examined the presence of stereotypes in LVLMs related to cultural contexts such as religion, nationality, and socioeconomic