Large Language Models Only Pass Primary School Exams in Indonesia: A Comprehensive Test on IndoMMLU
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Title
EMNLP 2023 - 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
Abstract
Although large language models (LLMs) are often pre-trained on large-scale multilingual texts, their reasoning abilities and real-world knowledge are mainly evaluated based on English datasets. Assessing LLM capabilities beyond English is increasingly vital but hindered due to the lack of suitable datasets. In this work, we introduce IndoMMLU, the first multi-task language understanding benchmark for Indonesian culture and languages, which consists of questions from primary school to university entrance exams in Indonesia. By employing professional teachers, we obtain 14,981 questions across 64 tasks and education levels, with 46% of the questions focusing on assessing proficiency in the Indonesian language and knowledge of nine local languages and cultures in Indonesia. Our empirical evaluations show that GPT-3.5 only manages to pass the Indonesian primary school level, with limited knowledge of local Indonesian languages and culture. Other smaller models such as BLOOMZ and Falcon perform at even lower levels.
First Page
12359
Last Page
12374
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Recommended Citation
F. Koto et al., "Large Language Models Only Pass Primary School Exams in Indonesia: A Comprehensive Test on IndoMMLU," EMNLP 2023 - 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings, pp. 12359 - 12374, Jan 2023.