Papers with multi-choice knowledge-based QA(AfriMMLU
IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, Jian Yun Zhuang, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Xuanli He, Millicent Ochieng, Sara Hooker, Andiswa Bukula, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Kudzaishe Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Foutse Yuehgoh, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Sokhar Samb, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Tombekai Vangoni Sherman, Pontus Stenetorp
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are limited to a few high-resource languages . many low-resourced languages are evaluated only on basic text classification tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose to use IrokoBench to evaluate 17 low-resource African languages . they use human-translated benchmark datasets to evaluate zero-shot, few-shot and translate-test settings . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well in English and French, but the highest performing model perform poorly in proprietary models. |