<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Cultural Understanding | Yiqiao Jin CS PhD @ Georgia Tech</title><link>https://ahren09.github.io/tags/cultural-understanding/</link><atom:link href="https://ahren09.github.io/tags/cultural-understanding/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Cultural Understanding</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://ahren09.github.io/media/icon_hu_eee6347cbdb2cc3f.png</url><title>Cultural Understanding</title><link>https://ahren09.github.io/tags/cultural-understanding/</link></image><item><title>CultureVLM: Characterizing and Improving Cultural Understanding of Vision-Language Models for over 100 Countries</title><link>https://ahren09.github.io/publication/cvpr25_culturevlm/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ahren09.github.io/publication/cvpr25_culturevlm/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="abstract">Abstract&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Vision-language models (VLMs) are deployed globally but exhibit substantial cultural blind spots. We introduce CultureVLM, a framework that characterizes and improves cultural understanding of VLMs across more than 100 countries.&lt;/p>
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