DyMT-ESB: Dynamic Multi-Turn Evaluation of Social Bias in User-LLM Interactions

Rem Hida, Masahiro Kaneko, Daisuke Oba, Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki


Abstract
Warning: This paper contains examples of stereotypes and social bias. LLMs are increasingly used in interactive settings by the general public, making the evaluation of model behavior in multi-turn conversational scenarios important for safety, including stereotyping-related harms. However, existing multi-turn social bias evaluations often rely on pre-specified or template-based user inputs that do not adapt to model responses and typically assume a fixed dialogue length in advance. In this paper, we study social bias dynamics in response-conditioned multi-turn interactions using a controlled evaluation protocol that generates follow-up user queries from the evolving dialogue history and allows evaluation over variable numbers of turns. Experimental results show that LLMs exhibit social bias even in coherent, response-conditioned multi-turn interactions, revealing late-emerging bias, non-monotonic bias patterns, and bias re-emergence. These results motivate evaluations that extend beyond fixed-turn, pre-scripted protocols. Our findings highlight the importance of analyzing social bias as a turn-level dynamic phenomenon.
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2026.findings-emnlp.1581
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Hung-Yi Lee, Sunipa Dev, Jessy Li, Desmond Elliott
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Rem Hida, Masahiro Kaneko, Daisuke Oba, Danushka Bollegala, and Naoaki Okazaki. 2026. DyMT-ESB: Dynamic Multi-Turn Evaluation of Social Bias in User-LLM Interactions. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, pages 33661–33684, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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