Test Set Quality in Multilingual LLM Evaluation

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Autores principales: Kranti, Chalamalasetti, Bernier-Colborne, Gabriel, Gauthier, Yvan, Vajjala, Sowmya
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Publicado: 2025
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author Kranti, Chalamalasetti
Bernier-Colborne, Gabriel
Gauthier, Yvan
Vajjala, Sowmya
author_facet Kranti, Chalamalasetti
Bernier-Colborne, Gabriel
Gauthier, Yvan
Vajjala, Sowmya
contents Several multilingual benchmark datasets have been developed in a semi-automatic manner in the recent past to measure progress and understand the state-of-the-art in the multilingual capabilities of Large Language Models. However, there is not a lot of attention paid to the quality of the datasets themselves, despite the existence of previous work in identifying errors in even fully human-annotated test sets. In this paper, we manually analyze recent multilingual evaluation sets in two languages - French and Telugu, identifying several errors in the process. We compare the performance difference across several LLMs with the original and revised versions of the datasets and identify large differences (almost 10% in some cases) in both languages). Based on these results, we argue that test sets should not be considered immutable and should be revisited, checked for correctness, and potentially versioned. We end with some recommendations for both the dataset creators as well as consumers on addressing the dataset quality issues.
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spellingShingle Test Set Quality in Multilingual LLM Evaluation
Kranti, Chalamalasetti
Bernier-Colborne, Gabriel
Gauthier, Yvan
Vajjala, Sowmya
Computation and Language
Several multilingual benchmark datasets have been developed in a semi-automatic manner in the recent past to measure progress and understand the state-of-the-art in the multilingual capabilities of Large Language Models. However, there is not a lot of attention paid to the quality of the datasets themselves, despite the existence of previous work in identifying errors in even fully human-annotated test sets. In this paper, we manually analyze recent multilingual evaluation sets in two languages - French and Telugu, identifying several errors in the process. We compare the performance difference across several LLMs with the original and revised versions of the datasets and identify large differences (almost 10% in some cases) in both languages). Based on these results, we argue that test sets should not be considered immutable and should be revisited, checked for correctness, and potentially versioned. We end with some recommendations for both the dataset creators as well as consumers on addressing the dataset quality issues.
title Test Set Quality in Multilingual LLM Evaluation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02635