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New BanglaBBQ benchmark reveals bias in LLMs for Bangladeshi context

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Researchers have introduced BanglaBBQ, a new benchmark designed to evaluate biases in question-answering models within the Bangladeshi context. This benchmark adapts existing templates and introduces new categories reflecting common societal stereotypes in Bangladesh, such as marital status, age, and regional origin. Evaluations using models like Qwen3, GPT-4.1 mini, and Gemini 2.5 Flash revealed that these models exhibit biased behavior, particularly when contexts are ambiguous or contradict stereotypes, with language differences impacting model performance. AI

IMPACT This benchmark will help researchers identify and mitigate cultural biases in LLMs, improving their fairness and reliability in diverse linguistic contexts.

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New BanglaBBQ benchmark reveals bias in LLMs for Bangladeshi context

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Sumit Anthony Gomes, Yasin Rahman, Taeeba Tasnia, Faiza Nooren Suhita ·

    BanglaBBQ: A Bias Benchmark for Question Answering in the Bangladeshi Context

    arXiv:2610.24764v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents BanglaBBQ, a question-answering bias benchmark designed to capture stereotypes grounded in the Bangladeshi context, in both Bangla and English. Following KoBBQ and PakBBQ, BanglaBBQ adapts the original Bias B…

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