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Research probes stereotype representation in multilingual LLMs

A new research paper investigates how stereotypes manifest within multilingual large language models (LLMs). The study compares various methods like linear probing and sparse autoencoders across models such as Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen3-8B, and Gemma-2-9B to understand where stereotype-related information is represented and how it influences output. Findings indicate that probe performance peaks significantly earlier than attribution in these models, and a small percentage of features exhibit language-agnostic effects, with none being entirely category-agnostic. AI

IMPACT This research offers insights into how biases are encoded and propagated within multilingual LLMs, potentially guiding future development towards fairer and more equitable AI systems.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ariun-Erdene Tumurchuluun, Yusser Al Ghussin, Pinzhen Chen, Josef van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury ·

    Tracing Stereotypes from Representation to Output in Multilingual LLMs

    arXiv:2609.08322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual LLMs show stereotype-related behavior that varies across languages, but behavioral scores do not show where the relevant information is represented or how it affects the output. To investigate these internal mechanism…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Tracing Stereotypes from Representation to Output in Multilingual LLMs

    Multilingual LLMs show stereotype-related behavior that varies across languages, but behavioral scores do not show where the relevant information is represented or how it affects the output. To investigate these internal mechanisms, we compare linear probing, attribution patching…