Bias in the Tails: How Name-conditioned Evaluative Framing in Resume Summaries Destabilizes LLM-based Hiring
Research has documented LLMs' name-based bias in hiring and salary recommendations. In this paper, we instead consider a setting where LLMs generate candidate summaries for downstream assessment. In a large-scale controlled study, we analyze nearly one million resume summaries produced by 4 models under systematic race-gender name perturbations, using synthetic resumes and real-world job postings. By decomposing each summary into resume-grounded factual content and evaluative framing, we find that factual content remains largely stable, while evaluative language exhibits subtle name-conditioned variation concentrated in the extremes of the distribution, especially in open-source models. O...
| Authors | Huy Nghiem, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Sy-Tuyen Ho et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 21 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 September 2026 |
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