Ting-Ruen Wei

Does Reasoning Introduce Bias? A Study of Social Bias Evaluation and Mitigation in LLM Reasoning

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled automatic generation of chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, leading to strong performance on tasks such as math and code. However, when reasoning steps reflect social stereotypes (e.g., those related to gender, race or age), they can reinfor