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Main Authors: Farsi, Farhan, Aghababaloo, Farnaz, Motlagh, Shahriar Shariati, Ghofrani, Parsa, SadraeiJavaheri, MohammadAli, Bali, Shayan, Shabani, Amirhossein, Bijary, Farbod, Zamaninejad, Ghazal, Salehoof, AmirMohammad, Momtazi, Saeedeh
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00673
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author Farsi, Farhan
Aghababaloo, Farnaz
Motlagh, Shahriar Shariati
Ghofrani, Parsa
SadraeiJavaheri, MohammadAli
Bali, Shayan
Shabani, Amirhossein
Bijary, Farbod
Zamaninejad, Ghazal
Salehoof, AmirMohammad
Momtazi, Saeedeh
author_facet Farsi, Farhan
Aghababaloo, Farnaz
Motlagh, Shahriar Shariati
Ghofrani, Parsa
SadraeiJavaheri, MohammadAli
Bali, Shayan
Shabani, Amirhossein
Bijary, Farbod
Zamaninejad, Ghazal
Salehoof, AmirMohammad
Momtazi, Saeedeh
contents As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in our daily lives, evaluating their quality and reliability across diverse contexts has become essential. While comprehensive benchmarks exist for assessing LLM performance in English, there remains a significant gap in evaluation resources for other languages. Moreover, because most LLMs are trained primarily on data rooted in European and American cultures, they often lack familiarity with non-Western cultural contexts. To address this limitation, our study focuses on the Persian language and Iranian culture. We introduce 19 new evaluation datasets specifically designed to assess LLMs on topics such as Iranian law, Persian grammar, Persian idioms, and university entrance exams. Using these datasets, we benchmarked 41 prominent LLMs, aiming to bridge the existing cultural and linguistic evaluation gap in the field.
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spellingShingle MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Language
Farsi, Farhan
Aghababaloo, Farnaz
Motlagh, Shahriar Shariati
Ghofrani, Parsa
SadraeiJavaheri, MohammadAli
Bali, Shayan
Shabani, Amirhossein
Bijary, Farbod
Zamaninejad, Ghazal
Salehoof, AmirMohammad
Momtazi, Saeedeh
Computation and Language
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in our daily lives, evaluating their quality and reliability across diverse contexts has become essential. While comprehensive benchmarks exist for assessing LLM performance in English, there remains a significant gap in evaluation resources for other languages. Moreover, because most LLMs are trained primarily on data rooted in European and American cultures, they often lack familiarity with non-Western cultural contexts. To address this limitation, our study focuses on the Persian language and Iranian culture. We introduce 19 new evaluation datasets specifically designed to assess LLMs on topics such as Iranian law, Persian grammar, Persian idioms, and university entrance exams. Using these datasets, we benchmarked 41 prominent LLMs, aiming to bridge the existing cultural and linguistic evaluation gap in the field.
title MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Language
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00673