Sina Malakouti

Sina Malakouti

he/him

CS PhD Candidate @ UPitt

Culture in Action: Evaluating Text-to-Image Models through Social Activities

Published in The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

This paper introduces CULTIVate, a benchmark for evaluating cultural faithfulness in text-to-image models using cross-cultural everyday activities. It proposes descriptor-based metrics to measure cultural alignment, hallucination, and exaggeration, and shows that current models perform unevenly across regions, with stronger results for Global North cultures.