Papers by Sreedath Panat
Colorism in Multimodal AI: An Empirical Exploration of Socioeconomic Linguistic Bias in Text-to-Image Generation (2026.eacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Socioeconomic inequalities worldwide are deeply linked to ethnoracial hierarchies and stereotypes, argues a new study. |
| Approach: | They use a Monk Skin Tone scale to benchmark VLMs and annotators . they then use linguistic cues to vary skin-tone representations in text-to-image generation . |
| Outcome: | The study compares 3 small VLMs and 60 human annotators on the monk skin tone scale with 210 occupations and produces over 2,500 portraits across 3 large VLM models. |