@inproceedings{ghate-etal-2024-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating Gender Bias in Multilingual Multimodal {AI} Models: Insights from an {I}ndian Context",
    author = "Ghate, Kshitish  and
      Choudhry, Arjun  and
      Bannihatti Kumar, Vanya",
    editor = "Fale{\'n}ska, Agnieszka  and
      Basta, Christine  and
      Costa-juss{\`a}, Marta  and
      Goldfarb-Tarrant, Seraphina  and
      Nozza, Debora",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2024.gebnlp-1.21/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.gebnlp-1.21",
    pages = "338--350",
    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."
}