Farbod Bijary


2025

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MELAC: Massive Evaluation of Large Language Models with Alignment of Culture in Persian Language
Farhan Farsi | Farnaz Aghababaloo | Shahriar Shariati Motlagh | Parsa Ghofrani | MohammadAli SadraeiJavaheri | Shayan Bali | Amir Hossein Shabani | Farbod Bijary | Ghazal Zamaninejad | AmirMohammad Salehoof | Saeedeh Momtazi
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in our daily lives, evaluating their quality and reliability across diverse contexts has become essential. While comprehensive benchmarks exist for assessing LLM performance in English, there remains a significant gap in evaluation resources for other languages. Moreover, because most LLMs are trained primarily on data rooted in European and American cultures, they often lack familiarity with non-Western cultural contexts. To address this limitation, our study focuses on the Persian language and Iranian culture. We introduce 19 new evaluation datasets specifically designed to assess LLMs on topics such as Iranian law, Persian grammar, Persian idioms, and university entrance exams. Using these datasets, we benchmarked 41 prominent LLMs, aiming to bridge the existing cultural and linguistic evaluation gap in the field. The evaluation results are publicly available on our live leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/opll-org/Open-Persian-LLM-Leaderboard