Hayk Stepanyan
2026
Scaling Cultural Resources for Improving Generative Models
Hayk Stepanyan | Aishwarya Verma | Andrew Zaldivar | Rutledge Chin Feman | Erin MacMurray van Liemt | Charu Kalia | Vinodkumar Prabhakaran | Sunipa Dev
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Hayk Stepanyan | Aishwarya Verma | Andrew Zaldivar | Rutledge Chin Feman | Erin MacMurray van Liemt | Charu Kalia | Vinodkumar Prabhakaran | Sunipa Dev
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026
Generative models are known to have reduced performance in different global cultural contexts and languages. While continual data updates have been known to be conducted to improve overall model performance, bolstering and evaluating this cross-cultural competence of generative AI models requires data resources to be intentionally expanded to include global contexts and languages. In this work, we construct a multi-pronged pipeline to collect and contribute culturally salient, multilingual data. We posit that such data can assess the state of the global applicability of our models and thus, in turn, help identify and improve upon cross-cultural gaps.