Towards Multilingual LLM Evaluation for European Languages
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The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing across numerous languages and tasks. However, evaluating LLM performance in a consistent and meaningful way across multiple European languages remains challenging, especially due to the scarcity of language-parallel multilingual benchmarks. We introduce a multilingual evaluation approach tailored for European languages. We employ translated versions of five widely-used benchmarks to assess the capabilities of 40 LLMs across 21 European languages. Our contributions include examining the effectiveness of translated benchmarks, assessing the impact of different translation services, and offering a multilingual evaluation framework for LLMs that includes newly created datasets: EU20-MMLU, EU20-HellaSwag, EU20-ARC, EU20-TruthfulQA, and EU20-GSM8K. The benchmarks and results are made publicly available to encourage further research in multilingual LLM evaluation.
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- 2026Beyond English: Uncovering the Multilingual Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models14 Jun 2026
- 2026CARTE: A Benchmark for Mapping Language Model Knowledge Across France1 Jun 2026
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- 2026RespondeoQA: a Benchmark for Bilingual Latin-English Question Answering22 Apr 2026
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- 2026UrduBench: An Urdu Reasoning Benchmark using Contextually Ensembled Translations with Human-in-the-Loop28 Jan 2026
- 2026Racka: Efficient Hungarian LLM Adaptation on Academic Infrastructure3 Jan 2026
- 2025Georeferencing complex relative locality descriptions with large language models16 Dec 2025
- 2025Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Translation21 Nov 2025
- 2025Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures28 Oct 2025
- 2025MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Language1 Aug 2025
- 2025The AI Language Proficiency Monitor -- Tracking the Progress of LLMs on Multilingual Benchmarks11 Jul 2025
- 2025Checklist Engineering Empowers Multilingual LLM Judges9 Jul 2025
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- 2025LAG-MMLU: Benchmarking Frontier LLM Understanding in Latvian and Giriama14 Mar 2025
- 2025Multilingual European Language Models: Benchmarking Approaches and Challenges18 Feb 2025
- 2025Are Multilingual Language Models an Off-ramp for Under-resourced Languages? Will we arrive at Digital Language Equality in Europe in 2030?18 Feb 2025
- 2025Demystifying Multilingual Chain-of-Thought in Process Reward Modeling18 Feb 2025
- 2025Towards Multilingual LLM Evaluation for Baltic and Nordic languages: A study on Lithuanian History15 Jan 2025
- 2024BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Language11 Dec 2024
- 2024MM-Eval: A Multilingual Meta-Evaluation Benchmark for LLM-as-a-Judge and Reward Models23 Oct 2024
- 2025Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Culturescited by 8
- 2025Demystifying Multilingual Chain-of-Thought in Process Reward Modelingcited by 6
- 2026UrduBench: An Urdu Reasoning Benchmark using Contextually Ensembled Translations with Human-in-the-Loopcited by 2
- 2026CARTE: A Benchmark for Mapping Language Model Knowledge Across Francecited by 1
- 2025Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Translationcited by 0
- 2026RespondeoQA: a Benchmark for Bilingual Latin-English Question Answeringcited by 0
- 2026CARTE: A Benchmark for Mapping Language Model Knowledge Across France1 Jun 2026
- 2026RespondeoQA: a Benchmark for Bilingual Latin-English Question Answering22 Apr 2026
- 2026UrduBench: An Urdu Reasoning Benchmark using Contextually Ensembled Translations with Human-in-the-Loop28 Jan 2026
- 2025Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Translation21 Nov 2025
- 2025Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures28 Oct 2025
- 2025Demystifying Multilingual Chain-of-Thought in Process Reward Modeling18 Feb 2025
- 2025The AI Language Proficiency Monitor -- Tracking the Progress of LLMs on Multilingual Benchmarkscited by 7
- 2024BEIR-NL: Zero-shot Information Retrieval Benchmark for the Dutch Languagecited by 6
- 2025Checklist Engineering Empowers Multilingual LLM Judgescited by 3
- 2025MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Languagecited by 3
- 2025LAG-MMLU: Benchmarking Frontier LLM Understanding in Latvian and Giriamacited by 2
- 2025Towards Multilingual LLM Evaluation for Baltic and Nordic languages: A study on Lithuanian Historycited by 1
- 2025Are Multilingual Language Models an Off-ramp for Under-resourced Languages? Will we arrive at Digital Language Equality in Europe in 2030?cited by 1
- 2025Multilingual European Language Models: Benchmarking Approaches and Challengescited by 1
- 2025Georeferencing complex relative locality descriptions with large language modelscited by 1
- 2026Racka: Efficient Hungarian LLM Adaptation on Academic Infrastructurecited by 1
- 2026EstLLM: Enhancing Estonian Capabilities in Multilingual LLMs via Continued Pretraining and Post-Trainingcited by 1
- 2026TildeOpen LLM: Leveraging Curriculum Learning to Achieve Equitable Language Representationcited by 1
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- 2026From Data to Device: ELMOD An Efficient German-First 2.7B Language Model for Mobile Inference27 Jul 2026
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- 2026Diagnosing Translated Benchmarks: An Automated Quality Assurance Study of the EU20 Benchmark Suite2 Apr 2026
- 2026textitVersteasch du mi? Computational and Socio-Linguistic Perspectives on GenAI, LLMs, and Non-Standard Language30 Mar 2026
- 2026TildeOpen LLM: Leveraging Curriculum Learning to Achieve Equitable Language Representation9 Mar 2026
- 2026EstLLM: Enhancing Estonian Capabilities in Multilingual LLMs via Continued Pretraining and Post-Training2 Mar 2026
- 2026Racka: Efficient Hungarian LLM Adaptation on Academic Infrastructure3 Jan 2026
- 2025Georeferencing complex relative locality descriptions with large language models16 Dec 2025
- 2025MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Language1 Aug 2025
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