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Cross-Cultural Value Attribution in Large Vision-Language Models

Kathleen C. Fraser, Phillip Howard, Xin Su

Large vision-language models adjust their judgments of a person's moral, ethical, and political values when the same individual appears in different cultural contexts.

arxiv:2604.09945 v2 · 2026-04-10 · cs.CV · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Our evaluation framework diagnoses LVLM awareness of cultural value differences through the use of Moral Foundations Theory, lexical analyses, and the sensitivity of generated values to depicted cultural contexts.

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That counterfactual image sets successfully isolate cultural context effects without confounding visual factors, and that shifts in model outputs reflect internalized cultural value awareness rather than prompt artifacts or superficial associations.

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LVLMs exhibit sensitivity to depicted cultural contexts when generating value judgments, diagnosed via Moral Foundations Theory, lexical analysis, and counterfactual image sets.

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arxiv: 2604.09945 · arxiv_version: 2604.09945v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.09945 · pith_short_12: UV5JZQBYAZP2 · pith_short_16: UV5JZQBYAZP2LL44 · pith_short_8: UV5JZQBY

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