Bufan Gao
bufangao.bsky.social
Bufan Gao
@bufangao.bsky.social
Psychology PhD student @UChicago

🔗 jouisseuse.github.io
Excited to present at #EMNLP2025

Really appreciate @elisakreiss.bsky.social’s kind guidance and encouragement throughout this work 🙏
September 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
👉 Our results highlight the brittleness of current bias evaluations: small prompt changes can reverse conclusions.

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.04373
💻 Code: github.com/jouisseuse/B...
Measuring Bias or Measuring the Task: Understanding the Brittle Nature of LLM Gender Biases
As LLMs are increasingly applied in socially impactful settings, concerns about gender bias have prompted growing efforts both to measure and mitigate such bias. These efforts often rely on evaluation...
arxiv.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
When prompts contain cues typical of gender bias evaluation setups, models shift pronoun use: fewer “he,” more “they.”

This suggests that LLM benchmark behavior may generalize less and less to non-benchmark settings, raising new concerns about ecological validity.
September 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM