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IndicGenBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Generation Capabilities of Large Language Models on Diverse Indic Languages

Q: How can the performance gap between English and Indic languages be further reduced through model architecture, training data, or other innovations?

To reduce the performance gap between English and Indic languages, several strategies can be implemented: Model Architecture Optimization: Developing language models specifically tailored to the linguistic characteristics of Indic languages can help improve performance. This may involve incorporating language-specific features, such as morphology, syntax, and semantics, into the model architecture. Data Augmentation and Synthesis: Generating more high-quality training data for low-resource Indic languages through data augmentation techniques like back-translation, paraphrasing, and synthetic data generation can enhance model performance. Transfer Learning: Leveraging pre-trained models on high-resource languages and fine-tuning them on Indic languages can help bridge the performance gap. Transfer learning techniques can transfer knowledge from high-resource languages to low-resource ones. Multilingual Training: Training models on a diverse set of languages simultaneously can improve their ability to generalize across languages. Multilingual training exposes the model to a wide range of linguistic patterns and structures. Domain Adaptation: Adapting models to specific domains or tasks prevalent in Indic languages can enhance their performance on real-world applications. Domain-specific fine-tuning can improve the model's understanding of domain-specific language nuances. Continuous Evaluation and Feedback: Regularly evaluating model performance on Indic languages, collecting feedback from users, and iteratively improving the models based on this feedback can lead to better performance over time.

Q: What are the specific linguistic and cultural challenges in developing high-performing language models for low-resource Indic languages, and how can they be addressed?

Developing high-performing language models for low-resource Indic languages faces several linguistic and cultural challenges: Morphological Complexity: Many Indic languages exhibit rich morphological structures with complex inflections and derivations. Modeling these morphological variations accurately is crucial for natural language understanding and generation. Script Diversity: Indic languages are written in various scripts like Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, etc., each with its own unique characteristics. Adapting models to handle different scripts effectively is essential for accurate language processing. Code-Switching and Multilinguality: Indic languages often involve code-switching between English and the native language, posing challenges for language models. Handling multilingual data and code-mixed text is crucial for real-world applications. Cultural Sensitivity: Language models need to be culturally sensitive and context-aware to generate culturally appropriate responses. Understanding cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions, and local context is vital for effective communication. To address these challenges, the following strategies can be employed: Linguistic Expertise: Collaborating with linguists and native speakers to annotate data, validate model outputs, and ensure linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness. Customized Tokenization: Developing language-specific tokenization strategies to handle morphologically rich languages and diverse scripts effectively. Domain-Specific Data Collection: Collecting domain-specific datasets to train models on specialized vocabularies and language patterns prevalent in specific domains. Ethical AI Practices: Ensuring ethical AI practices by considering cultural sensitivities, biases, and fairness in model development to build inclusive and culturally aware language models.

Q: Given the diversity of Indic languages, how can INDICGENBENCH be extended to capture additional nuances and tasks relevant to real-world applications in the Indian context?

To extend INDICGENBENCH and capture additional nuances and tasks relevant to real-world applications in the Indian context, the following steps can be taken: Task Diversification: Introduce new tasks such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, speech recognition, and language modeling specific to Indic languages to cover a broader range of NLP applications. Fine-Grained Evaluation: Include finer-grained evaluation metrics for tasks like machine translation, summarization, and question answering to assess model performance more comprehensively. Domain-Specific Benchmarks: Create benchmarks for domain-specific tasks like healthcare, finance, legal, and education, reflecting the diverse applications of language technology in India. Speech and Audio Tasks: Incorporate tasks related to speech recognition, speech synthesis, and audio processing to cater to the growing demand for voice-based applications in Indic languages. Cross-Domain Evaluation: Evaluate models on cross-domain tasks to assess their generalization capabilities across different domains and applications. Community Participation: Engage with the local community, researchers, and industry experts to gather insights, feedback, and suggestions for expanding INDICGENBENCH to address the specific needs and challenges of the Indian linguistic landscape.

Concepts de base

INDICGENBENCH is a large-scale benchmark for evaluating the text generation capabilities of multilingual language models across 29 Indic languages spanning 13 scripts and 4 language families.

Résumé

INDICGENBENCH is a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on a diverse set of Indic languages. It consists of 5 user-facing tasks: cross-lingual summarization, machine translation, multilingual question answering, and cross-lingual question answering.

The benchmark covers 29 Indic languages across 13 writing scripts and 4 language families, with languages categorized into higher, medium, and lower resource groups based on web text availability. INDICGENBENCH extends existing datasets like CrossSum, FLORES, XQuAD, and XorQA to these Indic languages through high-quality human translations, providing the first-ever evaluation datasets for up to 18 Indic languages.

The authors evaluate a wide range of proprietary and open-source LLMs, including GPT-3.5, GPT-4, PaLM-2, mT5, Gemma, BLOOM, and LLaMA, on INDICGENBENCH. They find that while the largest PaLM-2 models perform the best overall, there is a significant performance gap between English and Indic languages across all models, highlighting the need for further research to develop more inclusive multilingual language models.

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Stats

The largest PaLM-2 model achieves a ChrF score of 47.5 on the FLORES-IN (English to Indic) task, compared to 65.1 for English.
On the XQUAD-IN task, the largest PaLM-2 model achieves a Token-F1 score of 69.3 for higher resource Indic languages, compared to 83.7 for English.
The performance of open-source models like LLaMA is significantly lower than proprietary models, with the largest LLaMA-65B model underperforming the smallest PaLM-2-XXS model across tasks.

Citations

"There is a significant performance gap between English and Indic languages across all models, highlighting the need for further research to develop more inclusive multilingual language models."
"For many low-resource languages in INDICGENBENCH, clean text knowledge corpus (e.g., Wikipedia) is not available making it difficult to acquire source data for annotation."

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IndicGenBench: A Multilingual Benchmark to Evaluate Generation Capabilities of LLMs on Indic Languages

by Harman Singh... à arxiv.org 04-26-2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16816.pdf

IndicGenBench: A Multilingual Benchmark to Evaluate Generation Capabilities of LLMs on Indic Languages

Questions plus approfondies

How can the performance gap between English and Indic languages be further reduced through model architecture, training data, or other innovations?

To reduce the performance gap between English and Indic languages, several strategies can be implemented:

Model Architecture Optimization: Developing language models specifically tailored to the linguistic characteristics of Indic languages can help improve performance. This may involve incorporating language-specific features, such as morphology, syntax, and semantics, into the model architecture.

Data Augmentation and Synthesis: Generating more high-quality training data for low-resource Indic languages through data augmentation techniques like back-translation, paraphrasing, and synthetic data generation can enhance model performance.

Transfer Learning: Leveraging pre-trained models on high-resource languages and fine-tuning them on Indic languages can help bridge the performance gap. Transfer learning techniques can transfer knowledge from high-resource languages to low-resource ones.

Multilingual Training: Training models on a diverse set of languages simultaneously can improve their ability to generalize across languages. Multilingual training exposes the model to a wide range of linguistic patterns and structures.

Domain Adaptation: Adapting models to specific domains or tasks prevalent in Indic languages can enhance their performance on real-world applications. Domain-specific fine-tuning can improve the model's understanding of domain-specific language nuances.

Continuous Evaluation and Feedback: Regularly evaluating model performance on Indic languages, collecting feedback from users, and iteratively improving the models based on this feedback can lead to better performance over time.

What are the specific linguistic and cultural challenges in developing high-performing language models for low-resource Indic languages, and how can they be addressed?

Developing high-performing language models for low-resource Indic languages faces several linguistic and cultural challenges:

Morphological Complexity: Many Indic languages exhibit rich morphological structures with complex inflections and derivations. Modeling these morphological variations accurately is crucial for natural language understanding and generation.

Script Diversity: Indic languages are written in various scripts like Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, etc., each with its own unique characteristics. Adapting models to handle different scripts effectively is essential for accurate language processing.

Code-Switching and Multilinguality: Indic languages often involve code-switching between English and the native language, posing challenges for language models. Handling multilingual data and code-mixed text is crucial for real-world applications.

Cultural Sensitivity: Language models need to be culturally sensitive and context-aware to generate culturally appropriate responses. Understanding cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions, and local context is vital for effective communication.

To address these challenges, the following strategies can be employed:

Linguistic Expertise: Collaborating with linguists and native speakers to annotate data, validate model outputs, and ensure linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness.

Customized Tokenization: Developing language-specific tokenization strategies to handle morphologically rich languages and diverse scripts effectively.

Domain-Specific Data Collection: Collecting domain-specific datasets to train models on specialized vocabularies and language patterns prevalent in specific domains.

Ethical AI Practices: Ensuring ethical AI practices by considering cultural sensitivities, biases, and fairness in model development to build inclusive and culturally aware language models.

Given the diversity of Indic languages, how can INDICGENBENCH be extended to capture additional nuances and tasks relevant to real-world applications in the Indian context?

To extend INDICGENBENCH and capture additional nuances and tasks relevant to real-world applications in the Indian context, the following steps can be taken:

Task Diversification: Introduce new tasks such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, speech recognition, and language modeling specific to Indic languages to cover a broader range of NLP applications.

Fine-Grained Evaluation: Include finer-grained evaluation metrics for tasks like machine translation, summarization, and question answering to assess model performance more comprehensively.

Domain-Specific Benchmarks: Create benchmarks for domain-specific tasks like healthcare, finance, legal, and education, reflecting the diverse applications of language technology in India.

Speech and Audio Tasks: Incorporate tasks related to speech recognition, speech synthesis, and audio processing to cater to the growing demand for voice-based applications in Indic languages.

Cross-Domain Evaluation: Evaluate models on cross-domain tasks to assess their generalization capabilities across different domains and applications.

Community Participation: Engage with the local community, researchers, and industry experts to gather insights, feedback, and suggestions for expanding INDICGENBENCH to address the specific needs and challenges of the Indian linguistic landscape.