@inproceedings{jajee-etal-2026-indicmmlu,
    title = "{I}ndic{MMLU}-Pro: Benchmarking {I}ndic Large Language Models on Multi-Task Language Understanding",
    author = "Jajee, Sankalp  and
      Kumar, Ashutosh  and
      Kotecha, Nikunj  and
      Jain, Vinija  and
      Chadha, Aman  and
      Bhaduri, Sreyoshi",
    editor = "Mille, Simon  and
      Gehrmann, Sebastian  and
      Schmidtov{\'a}, Patr{\'i}cia  and
      Du{\v{s}}ek, Ond{\v{r}}ej  and
      Fadaee, Marzieh  and
      Lo, Kyle  and
      Santus, Enrico  and
      Stanovsky, Gabriel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics ({GEM})",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.gem-main.10/",
    pages = "102--111",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-423-1",
    abstract = "Indic languages, spoken by over 1.5 billion people, pose unique challenges for NLP due to their cultural richness, linguistic diversity, and structural complexity. We present IndicMMLU-Pro, a comprehensive benchmark extending the MMLU-Pro framework to nine major Indic languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. Covering a wide range of tasks in comprehension, reasoning, and generation, IndicMMLU-Pro offers a standardized evaluation framework to advance AI model development in Indic contexts. This paper details the benchmark{'}s design, taxonomy, and data curation, and establishes baseline results using state-of-the-art multilingual models. As an open resource IndicMMLU-Pro aims to accelerate progress in Indic language technologies and support inclusive research in multilingual NLP."
}