Lost in Translation: Do LVLM Judges Generalize Across Languages? (2026.findings-acl)
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Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Amran Bhuiyan, Mizanur Rahman, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang
| Challenge: | MM-JudgeBench is the first large-scale benchmark for multilingual and multimodal judge model evaluation. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual benchmark for multilingual and multimodal judge model evaluation that includes over 60K pairwise preference instances spanning 25 typologically diverse languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark includes over 60K pairwise preference instances spanning 25 languages. |
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