SailCompass: Towards Reproducible and Robust Evaluation for Southeast Asian Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01186v1
• Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:42:51 GMT
• Title: SailCompass: Towards Reproducible and Robust Evaluation for Southeast Asian Languages
• Authors: Jia Guo, Longxu Dou, Guangtao Zeng, Stanley Kok, Wei Lu, Qian Liu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Sail, a reproducible and robust evaluation benchmark for assessing Large Language Models (LLMs) on Southeast Asian languages (SEA) Sail encompasses three main SEA languages, eight primary tasks including 14 datasets covering three task types (generation, multiple-choice questions, and classification)
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• Abstract: In this paper, we introduce SailCompass, a reproducible and robust evaluation benchmark for assessing Large Language Models (LLMs) on Southeast Asian Languages (SEA). SailCompass encompasses three main SEA languages, eight primary tasks including 14 datasets covering three task types (generation, multiple-choice questions, and classification). To improve the robustness of the evaluation approach, we explore different prompt configurations for multiple-choice questions and leverage calibrations to improve the faithfulness of classification tasks. With SailCompass, we derive the following findings: (1) SEA-specialized LLMs still outperform general LLMs, although the gap has narrowed; (2) A balanced language distribution is important for developing better SEA-specialized LLMs; (3) Advanced prompting techniques (e.g., calibration, perplexity-based ranking) are necessary to better utilize LLMs. All datasets and evaluation scripts are public.

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