LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding

arXiv:2606.17688 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-16

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cultural and Pragmatic Response Inference — 1× in this paper
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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