ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05049v2
• Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:58:35 GMT
• Title: ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding
• Authors: Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Yonas Chanie, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Negasi Haile Abadi, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Mulubrhan Abebe Nerea, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Derartu Dagne Geremew, Assefa Atsbiha tesfau, Philipp Slusallek, Thamar Solorio, Dietrich Klakow,
• Abstract summary: We introduce ProverbEval, an evaluation benchmark for low-resource languages based on proverbs. We benchmark various LLMs and explore factors that create variability in the benchmarking process. We argue special attention must be given to the order of choices, choice of prompt language, task variability, and generation tasks.
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• Abstract: With the rapid development of evaluation datasets to assess LLMs understanding across a wide range of subjects and domains, identifying a suitable language understanding benchmark has become increasingly challenging. In this work, we explore LLM evaluation challenges for low-resource language understanding and introduce ProverbEval, LLM evaluation benchmark for low-resource languages based on proverbs to focus on low-resource language understanding in culture-specific scenarios. We benchmark various LLMs and explore factors that create variability in the benchmarking process. We observed performance variances of up to 50%, depending on the order in which answer choices were presented in multiple-choice tasks. Native language proverb descriptions significantly improve tasks such as proverb generation, contributing to improved outcomes. Additionally, monolingual evaluations consistently outperformed their cross-lingual counterparts. We argue special attention must be given to the order of choices, choice of prompt language, task variability, and generation tasks when creating LLM evaluation benchmarks.

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