Mark Dras

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly shape public discourse, yet most evaluations of economic and political bias have focused on high-resource Western languages and contexts. This leaves a blind spots in low-resource, multilingual regions such as Pakistan, where linguistic identity is closel...

Cultural alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for producing contextually aware, respectful, and trustworthy outputs. Without it, models risk generating stereotyped, insensitive, or misleading responses that fail to reflect cultural diversity w.r.t Helpful, Harmless, and Honest (...

LLMs increasingly exhibit over-refusal behavior, where safety mechanisms cause models to reject benign instructions that seemingly resemble harmful content. This phenomenon diminishes utility in production applications that repeatedly rely on common prompt templates or applications that frequentl...

Large language models often display undesirable behaviors embedded in their internal representations, undermining fairness, inconsistency drift, amplification of harmful content, and the propagation of unwanted patterns during extended dialogue and conversations. Although training-time or data-ce...