AI systems are used worldwide, but they struggle to serve the needs of culturally diverse populations. Prior work on cultural understanding evaluates AI systems on text-only settings or on visual artifact recognition (e.g. foods, clothing). The …
Preference finetuning methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) with AI-generated feedback have shown promise in aligning Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) with human preferences. However, existing techniques overlook the prevalence of …