| [arabic_leaderboard_complete](arabic_leaderboard_complete/README.md) | A full version of the tasks in the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard, focusing on the evaluation of models that reflect the characteristics of Arabic language understanding and comprehension, culture, and heritage. Note that some of these tasks are machine-translated. | Arabic (Some MT) |
| [arabic_leaderboard_light](arabic_leaderboard_light/README.md) | A light version of the tasks in the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard (i.e., 10% samples of the test set in the original benchmarks), focusing on the evaluation of models that reflect the characteristics of Arabic language understanding and comprehension, culture, and heritage. Note that some of these tasks are machine-translated. | Arabic (Some MT) |
| [arabicmmlu](arabicmmlu/README.md) | Localized Arabic version of MMLU with multiple-choice questions from 40 subjects. | Arabic |
| [AraDICE](aradice/README.md) | A collection of multiple tasks carefully designed to evaluate dialectal and cultural capabilities in large language models (LLMs). | Arabic |
| [ArabCulture](arab_culture/README.md) | Benchmark for evaluating modeles' commonsense cultural knowledge across different 13 different Arab Countries. | Arabic |
[AraDICE](aradice/README.md) | A collection of multiple tasks carefully designed to evaluate dialectal and cultural capabilities in large language models (LLMs). | Arabic |
| [arc](arc/README.md) | Tasks involving complex reasoning over a diverse set of questions. | English |
| [arithmetic](arithmetic/README.md) | Tasks involving numerical computations and arithmetic reasoning. | English |
| [asdiv](asdiv/README.md) | Tasks involving arithmetic and mathematical reasoning challenges. | English |
Despite progress in Arabic large language models, such as Jais and AceGPT, their evaluation on commonsense reasoning has largely relied on machine-translated datasets, which lack cultural depth and may introduce Anglocentric biases. Commonsense reasoning is shaped by geographical and cultural contexts, and existing English datasets fail to capture the diversity of the Arab world. To address this, we introduce \datasetname, a commonsense reasoning dataset in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), covering cultures of 13 countries across the Gulf, Levant, North Africa, and the Nile Valley. The dataset was built from scratch by engaging native speakers to write and validate culturally relevant questions for their respective countries. \datasetname spans 12 daily life domains with 54 fine-grained subtopics, reflecting various aspects of social norms, traditions, and everyday experiences. Zero-shot evaluations show that open-weight language models with up to 32B parameters struggle to comprehend diverse Arab cultures, with performance varying across regions. These findings highlight the need for more culturally aware models and datasets tailored to the Arabic-speaking world.
author={Abdelrahman Sadallah and Junior Cedric Tonga and Khalid Almubarak and Saeed Almheiri and Farah Atif and Chatrine Qwaider and Karima Kadaoui and Sara Shatnawi and Yaser Alesh and Fajri Koto},
year={2025},
eprint={2502.12788},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12788},
}
```
### There are two variant of this task: `arab_culture`, and `arab_culture_completion`
- The `arab_culture` is the normal MCQ evaluation type, which appends the answers to the question, and then measure the likelihood of the different choices markers (A,B,C or "أ","ب","ج"). For more info, follow the MMLU style [tempelate](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/blob/main/lm_eval/tasks/mmlu/default/_default_template_yaml#L7-L8)
- The `arab_culture_completion` do the evaluation in a sentence completion manner, by appending each asnwer to the question separetley and chooses the answer with the higher likelihood. See [this](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/blob/1f9bc88fe61f6bfa36f74e91ce3d59ab5685e4f1/lm_eval/tasks/arc/arc_easy.yaml#L10-L12) for more information
