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Main Authors: Devane, Vijay, Nauman, Mohd, Patel, Bhargav, Wakchoure, Aniket Mahendra, Sant, Yogeshkumar, Pawar, Shyam, Thakur, Viraj, Godse, Ananya, Patra, Sunil, Maurya, Neha, Racha, Suraj, Singh, Nitish Kamal, Nagpal, Ajay, Sawarkar, Piyush, Pundalik, Kundeshwar Vijayrao, Saluja, Rohit, Ramakrishnan, Ganesh
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25409
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author Devane, Vijay
Nauman, Mohd
Patel, Bhargav
Wakchoure, Aniket Mahendra
Sant, Yogeshkumar
Pawar, Shyam
Thakur, Viraj
Godse, Ananya
Patra, Sunil
Maurya, Neha
Racha, Suraj
Singh, Nitish Kamal
Nagpal, Ajay
Sawarkar, Piyush
Pundalik, Kundeshwar Vijayrao
Saluja, Rohit
Ramakrishnan, Ganesh
author_facet Devane, Vijay
Nauman, Mohd
Patel, Bhargav
Wakchoure, Aniket Mahendra
Sant, Yogeshkumar
Pawar, Shyam
Thakur, Viraj
Godse, Ananya
Patra, Sunil
Maurya, Neha
Racha, Suraj
Singh, Nitish Kamal
Nagpal, Ajay
Sawarkar, Piyush
Pundalik, Kundeshwar Vijayrao
Saluja, Rohit
Ramakrishnan, Ganesh
contents The rapid advancement of large language models(LLMs) has intensified the need for domain and culture specific evaluation. Existing benchmarks are largely Anglocentric and domain-agnostic, limiting their applicability to India-centric contexts. To address this gap, we introduce BhashaBench V1, the first domain-specific, multi-task, bilingual benchmark focusing on critical Indic knowledge systems. BhashaBench V1 contains 74,166 meticulously curated question-answer pairs, with 52,494 in English and 21,672 in Hindi, sourced from authentic government and domain-specific exams. It spans four major domains: Agriculture, Legal, Finance, and Ayurveda, comprising 90+ subdomains and covering 500+ topics, enabling fine-grained evaluation. Evaluation of 29+ LLMs reveals significant domain and language specific performance gaps, with especially large disparities in low-resource domains. For instance, GPT-4o achieves 76.49% overall accuracy in Legal but only 59.74% in Ayurveda. Models consistently perform better on English content compared to Hindi across all domains. Subdomain-level analysis shows that areas such as Cyber Law, International Finance perform relatively well, while Panchakarma, Seed Science, and Human Rights remain notably weak. BhashaBench V1 provides a comprehensive dataset for evaluating large language models across India's diverse knowledge domains. It enables assessment of models' ability to integrate domain-specific knowledge with bilingual understanding. All code, benchmarks, and resources are publicly available to support open research.
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spellingShingle BhashaBench V1: A Comprehensive Benchmark for the Quadrant of Indic Domains
Devane, Vijay
Nauman, Mohd
Patel, Bhargav
Wakchoure, Aniket Mahendra
Sant, Yogeshkumar
Pawar, Shyam
Thakur, Viraj
Godse, Ananya
Patra, Sunil
Maurya, Neha
Racha, Suraj
Singh, Nitish Kamal
Nagpal, Ajay
Sawarkar, Piyush
Pundalik, Kundeshwar Vijayrao
Saluja, Rohit
Ramakrishnan, Ganesh
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The rapid advancement of large language models(LLMs) has intensified the need for domain and culture specific evaluation. Existing benchmarks are largely Anglocentric and domain-agnostic, limiting their applicability to India-centric contexts. To address this gap, we introduce BhashaBench V1, the first domain-specific, multi-task, bilingual benchmark focusing on critical Indic knowledge systems. BhashaBench V1 contains 74,166 meticulously curated question-answer pairs, with 52,494 in English and 21,672 in Hindi, sourced from authentic government and domain-specific exams. It spans four major domains: Agriculture, Legal, Finance, and Ayurveda, comprising 90+ subdomains and covering 500+ topics, enabling fine-grained evaluation. Evaluation of 29+ LLMs reveals significant domain and language specific performance gaps, with especially large disparities in low-resource domains. For instance, GPT-4o achieves 76.49% overall accuracy in Legal but only 59.74% in Ayurveda. Models consistently perform better on English content compared to Hindi across all domains. Subdomain-level analysis shows that areas such as Cyber Law, International Finance perform relatively well, while Panchakarma, Seed Science, and Human Rights remain notably weak. BhashaBench V1 provides a comprehensive dataset for evaluating large language models across India's diverse knowledge domains. It enables assessment of models' ability to integrate domain-specific knowledge with bilingual understanding. All code, benchmarks, and resources are publicly available to support open research.
title BhashaBench V1: A Comprehensive Benchmark for the Quadrant of Indic Domains
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25409