The Dialect Tax: Dialectal Biases Persist throughout the Language Modeling Pipeline
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arXiv:2608.24952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systematic dialectal performance gaps in language models (LMs) are well documented, but the source of these disparities within the modern language modeling pipeline remains unclear. Our study traces this "dialect tax" across the natural language proce…
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The Dialect Tax: Dialectal Biases Persist throughout the Language Modeling Pipeline