Evaluating Gender Bias in Multilingual Multimodal AI Models: Insights from an Indian Context

Kshitish Ghate, Arjun Choudhry, Vanya Bannihatti Kumar


Abstract
We evaluate gender biases in multilingual multimodal image and text models in two settings: text-to-image retrieval and text-to-image generation, to show that even seemingly gender-neutral traits generate biased results. We evaluate our framework in the context of people from India, working with two languages: English and Hindi. We work with frameworks built around mCLIP-based models to ensure a thorough evaluation of recent state-of-the-art models in the multilingual setting due to their potential for widespread applications. We analyze the results across 50 traits for retrieval and 8 traits for generation, showing that current multilingual multimodal models are biased towards men for most traits, and this problem is further exacerbated for lower-resource languages like Hindi. We further discuss potential reasons behind this observation, particularly stemming from the bias introduced by the pretraining datasets.
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2024.gebnlp-1.21
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Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Agnieszka Faleńska, Christine Basta, Marta Costa-jussà, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Debora Nozza
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GeBNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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338–350
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.gebnlp-1.21
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10.18653/v1/2024.gebnlp-1.21
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Kshitish Ghate, Arjun Choudhry, and Vanya Bannihatti Kumar. 2024. Evaluating Gender Bias in Multilingual Multimodal AI Models: Insights from an Indian Context. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pages 338–350, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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