Benchmarking Open-Source Large Language Models for Persian in Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Cherakhloo, Mahdi, Abbasi, Arash, Sarafraz, Mohammad Saeid, Vahdat, Bijan Vosoughi
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author Cherakhloo, Mahdi
Abbasi, Arash
Sarafraz, Mohammad Saeid
Vahdat, Bijan Vosoughi
author_facet Cherakhloo, Mahdi
Abbasi, Arash
Sarafraz, Mohammad Saeid
Vahdat, Bijan Vosoughi
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across numerous languages; however, their effectiveness in low-resource languages like Persian requires thorough investigation. This paper presents a comprehensive benchmark of several open-source LLMs for Persian Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, utilizing both zero-shot and few-shot learning paradigms. We evaluate models across a range of tasks including sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, reading comprehension, and question answering, using established Persian datasets such as ParsiNLU and ArmanEmo. Our methodology encompasses rigorous experimental setups for both zero-shot and few-shot scenarios, employing metrics such as Accuracy, F1-score, BLEU, and ROUGE for performance evaluation. The results reveal that Gemma 2 consistently outperforms other models across nearly all tasks in both learning paradigms, with particularly strong performance in complex reasoning tasks. However, most models struggle with token-level understanding tasks like Named Entity Recognition, highlighting specific challenges in Persian language processing. This study contributes to the growing body of research on multilingual LLMs, providing valuable insights into their performance in Persian and offering a benchmark for future model development.
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spellingShingle Benchmarking Open-Source Large Language Models for Persian in Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning
Cherakhloo, Mahdi
Abbasi, Arash
Sarafraz, Mohammad Saeid
Vahdat, Bijan Vosoughi
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across numerous languages; however, their effectiveness in low-resource languages like Persian requires thorough investigation. This paper presents a comprehensive benchmark of several open-source LLMs for Persian Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, utilizing both zero-shot and few-shot learning paradigms. We evaluate models across a range of tasks including sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, reading comprehension, and question answering, using established Persian datasets such as ParsiNLU and ArmanEmo. Our methodology encompasses rigorous experimental setups for both zero-shot and few-shot scenarios, employing metrics such as Accuracy, F1-score, BLEU, and ROUGE for performance evaluation. The results reveal that Gemma 2 consistently outperforms other models across nearly all tasks in both learning paradigms, with particularly strong performance in complex reasoning tasks. However, most models struggle with token-level understanding tasks like Named Entity Recognition, highlighting specific challenges in Persian language processing. This study contributes to the growing body of research on multilingual LLMs, providing valuable insights into their performance in Persian and offering a benchmark for future model development.
title Benchmarking Open-Source Large Language Models for Persian in Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12807