Papers by Nemil Shah
DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models’ Understanding on Indian Culture (2025.emnlp-main)
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Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh, null Anushka, Nemil Shah, Abhilekh Borah, Vanshika Shah, Nishant Mishra, Sriparna Saha
| Challenge: | DRISHTIKON is a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture. |
| Approach: | They evaluate a wide range of vision-language models across zero-shot and chain-of-thought settings and use them to evaluate cultural understanding of generative AI systems. |
| Outcome: | The DRISHTIKON dataset covers 15 languages, all states and union territories, and incorporating over 64,000 aligned text-image pairs. |