ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic
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| author | Koto, Fajri Li, Haonan Shatnawi, Sara Doughman, Jad Sadallah, Abdelrahman Boda Alraeesi, Aisha Almubarak, Khalid Alyafeai, Zaid Sengupta, Neha Shehata, Shady Habash, Nizar Nakov, Preslav Baldwin, Timothy |
| author_facet | Koto, Fajri Li, Haonan Shatnawi, Sara Doughman, Jad Sadallah, Abdelrahman Boda Alraeesi, Aisha Almubarak, Khalid Alyafeai, Zaid Sengupta, Neha Shehata, Shady Habash, Nizar Nakov, Preslav Baldwin, Timothy |
| contents | The focus of language model evaluation has transitioned towards reasoning and knowledge-intensive tasks, driven by advancements in pretraining large models. While state-of-the-art models are partially trained on large Arabic texts, evaluating their performance in Arabic remains challenging due to the limited availability of relevant datasets. To bridge this gap, we present \datasetname{}, the first multi-task language understanding benchmark for the Arabic language, sourced from school exams across diverse educational levels in different countries spanning North Africa, the Levant, and the Gulf regions. Our data comprises 40 tasks and 14,575 multiple-choice questions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and is carefully constructed by collaborating with native speakers in the region. Our comprehensive evaluations of 35 models reveal substantial room for improvement, particularly among the best open-source models. Notably, BLOOMZ, mT0, LLaMA2, and Falcon struggle to achieve a score of 50%, while even the top-performing Arabic-centric model only achieves a score of 62.3%. |
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| spellingShingle | ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic Koto, Fajri Li, Haonan Shatnawi, Sara Doughman, Jad Sadallah, Abdelrahman Boda Alraeesi, Aisha Almubarak, Khalid Alyafeai, Zaid Sengupta, Neha Shehata, Shady Habash, Nizar Nakov, Preslav Baldwin, Timothy Computation and Language The focus of language model evaluation has transitioned towards reasoning and knowledge-intensive tasks, driven by advancements in pretraining large models. While state-of-the-art models are partially trained on large Arabic texts, evaluating their performance in Arabic remains challenging due to the limited availability of relevant datasets. To bridge this gap, we present \datasetname{}, the first multi-task language understanding benchmark for the Arabic language, sourced from school exams across diverse educational levels in different countries spanning North Africa, the Levant, and the Gulf regions. Our data comprises 40 tasks and 14,575 multiple-choice questions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and is carefully constructed by collaborating with native speakers in the region. Our comprehensive evaluations of 35 models reveal substantial room for improvement, particularly among the best open-source models. Notably, BLOOMZ, mT0, LLaMA2, and Falcon struggle to achieve a score of 50%, while even the top-performing Arabic-centric model only achieves a score of 62.3%. |
| title | ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12840 |