Kristina Batistič
2025
Gender Representation Bias Analysis in LLM-Generated Czech and Slovenian Texts
Erik Derner
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Kristina Batistič
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
Large language models (LLMs) often reflect social biases present in their training data, including imbalances in how different genders are represented. While most prior work has focused on English, gender representation bias remains underexplored in morphologically rich languages where grammatical gender is pervasive. We present a method for detecting and quantifying such bias in Czech and Slovenian, using LLMs to classify gendered person references in LLM-generated narratives. Applying this method to outputs from a range of models, we find substantial variation in gender balance. While some models produce near-equal proportions of male and female references, others exhibit strong male overrepresentation. Our findings highlight the need for fine-grained bias evaluation in under-represented languages and demonstrate the potential of LLM-based annotation in this space. We make our code and data publicly available.
Beyond Words: Multilingual and Multimodal Red Teaming of MLLMs
Erik Derner
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Kristina Batistič
Proceedings of the The First Workshop on LLM Security (LLMSEC)
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, yet their safety remains underexplored, particularly in multilingual and visual contexts. In this work, we present a systematic red teaming framework to evaluate MLLM safeguards using adversarial prompts translated into seven languages and delivered via four input modalities: plain text, jailbreak prompt + text, text rendered as an image, and jailbreak prompt + text rendered as an image. We find that rendering prompts as images increases attack success rates and reduces refusal rates, with the effect most pronounced in lower-resource languages such as Slovenian, Czech, and Valencian. Our results suggest that vision-based multilingual attacks expose a persistent gap in current alignment strategies, highlighting the need for robust multilingual and multimodal MLLM safety evaluation and mitigation of these risks. We make our code and data available.