首次系统检测大模型中的空间性别偏见,揭示其深层社会认知编码。
SPAGBias: Uncovering and Tracing Structured Spatial Gender Bias in Large Language Models

- 构建62类城市微空间分类体系与多层诊断框架,量化分析性别关联模式。
- 发现模型内性别空间映射远超现实分布,且在故事生成中体现情感与角色共塑。
- 适用于社会计算、人机交互与公平性研究者,推动算法公平向空间维度延伸。
大型语言模型(LLMs)在城市规划中应用日益广泛,但性别化空间理论指出,性别等级制度嵌入空间组织之中,引发对模型可能复制或放大此类偏见的担忧。本文提出SPAGBias——首个系统评估LLMs中空间性别偏见的框架。该框架整合62种城市微空间分类、提示库及三层诊断机制:显式(强制选择重采样)、概率(标记级不对称)与建构性(语义与叙事角色分析)。测试六种代表性模型后,发现超越公共-私人二分法的结构化性别-空间关联,形成精细的微观映射。故事生成实验显示,情绪、用词与社会角色共同塑造‘空间性别叙事’。我们还考察了提示设计、温度与模型规模对偏见表达的影响。溯源实验表明,这些模式贯穿预训练、指令微调与奖励建模全链路,模型关联强度显著高于真实世界分布。下游实验进一步证明,此类偏见在规范与描述性应用场景中均导致具体失败。本研究将社会学理论与计算分析结合,拓展偏见研究至空间领域,揭示了LLMs如何通过语言编码社会性别认知。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in urban planning, but since gendered space theory highlights how gender hierarchies are embedded in spatial organization, there is concern that LLMs may reproduce or amplify such biases. We introduce SPAGBias - the first systematic framework to evaluate spatial gender bias in LLMs. It combines a taxonomy of 62 urban micro-spaces, a prompt library, and three diagnostic layers: explicit (forced-choice resampling), probabilistic (token-level asymmetry), and constructional (semantic and narrative role analysis). Testing six representative models, we identify structured gender-space associations that go beyond the public-private divide, forming nuanced micro-level mappings. Story generation reveals how emotion, wording, and social roles jointly shape "spatial gender narratives". We also examine how prompt design, temperature, and model scale influence bias expression. Tracing experiments indicate that these patterns are embedded and reinforced across the model pipeline (pre-training, instruction tuning, and reward modeling), with model associations found to substantially exceed real-world distributions. Downstream experiments further reveal that such biases produce concrete failures in both normative and descriptive application settings. This work connects sociological theory with computational analysis, extending bias research into the spatial domain and uncovering how LLMs encode social gender cognition through language.
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