arXiv:2504.08863cs.CYcs.AI2025-04被引 39

评估20国文化对齐度,发现大模型普遍偏向美国文化

An Evaluation of Cultural Value Alignment in LLM

  • 用权威文化问卷评测10个大模型在20国的文化对齐表现
  • 所有模型输出整体偏中等文化倾向,美国对齐度最高
  • 模型来源与提示语语言显著影响文化输出,中国偏差明显

大语言模型在涉及人类交互的场景中日益普及,引发对其是否忠实反映跨区域文化差异的关切。现有研究已发现模型输出存在文化偏差。为获得更全面认知,本文首次开展大规模评估,涵盖20个国家的文化与语言,考察10个大模型的表现。基于知名文化价值观问卷,结合人工标注的基准分数,系统分析模型在各国文化中的对齐情况。结果表明,所有模型输出整体呈现中等文化中间态。针对整体偏差,提出对齐度量指标,发现美国是最佳对齐国家,GLM-4在文化对齐能力上最优。深入分析显示,无论模型起源如何,均更贴近美国文化而非中国文化。研究为提升模型跨文化对齐提供依据,并引发关于模型传播文化偏见及构建更具文化适应性的模型的讨论。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

LLMs as intelligent agents are being increasingly applied in scenarios where human interactions are involved, leading to a critical concern about whether LLMs are faithful to the variations in culture across regions. Several works have investigated this question in various ways, finding that there are biases present in the cultural representations of LLM outputs. To gain a more comprehensive view, in this work, we conduct the first large-scale evaluation of LLM culture assessing 20 countries' cultures and languages across ten LLMs. With a renowned cultural values questionnaire and by carefully analyzing LLM output with human ground truth scores, we thoroughly study LLMs' cultural alignment across countries and among individual models. Our findings show that the output over all models represents a moderate cultural middle ground. Given the overall skew, we propose an alignment metric, revealing that the United States is the best-aligned country and GLM-4 has the best ability to align to cultural values. Deeper investigation sheds light on the influence of model origin, prompt language, and value dimensions on cultural output. Specifically, models, regardless of where they originate, align better with the US than they do with China. The conclusions provide insight to how LLMs can be better aligned to various cultures as well as provoke further discussion of the potential for LLMs to propagate cultural bias and the need for more culturally adaptable models.

文化对齐LLM评估偏见检测多国比较

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