MEGA MLQA

MLQA as part of the MEGA (Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI) benchmark suite. A multi-way aligned extractive QA evaluation benchmark for cross-lingual question answering across 7 languages (English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese, and Simplified Chinese) with over 12K QA instances in English and 5K in each other language.

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct from Microsoft currently leads the MEGA MLQA leaderboard with a score of 0.653 across 2 evaluated AI models.

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MicrosoftPhi-3.5-MoE-instruct leads with 65.3%, followed by MicrosoftPhi-3.5-mini-instruct at 61.7%.

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Common questions about MEGA MLQA.

What is the MEGA MLQA benchmark?

MLQA as part of the MEGA (Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI) benchmark suite. A multi-way aligned extractive QA evaluation benchmark for cross-lingual question answering across 7 languages (English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese, and Simplified Chinese) with over 12K QA instances in English and 5K in each other language.

What is the MEGA MLQA leaderboard?

The MEGA MLQA leaderboard ranks 2 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct by Microsoft leads with a score of 0.653. The average score across all models is 0.635.

What is the highest MEGA MLQA score?

The highest MEGA MLQA score is 0.653, achieved by Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct from Microsoft.

How many models are evaluated on MEGA MLQA?

2 models have been evaluated on the MEGA MLQA benchmark, with 0 verified results and 2 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MEGA MLQA paper?

The MEGA MLQA paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12528. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MEGA MLQA cover?

MEGA MLQA is categorized under language and reasoning. The benchmark evaluates text models with multilingual support.

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