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P-MMEval: A Parallel Multilingual Multitask Benchmark for Consistent Evaluation of LLMs

Yidan Zhang,Boyi Deng,6 Authors,Jingren Zhou

2024 · DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.09116
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 22 Citations

TLDR

This work introduces P-MMEval, a large-scale benchmark covering effective fundamental and capability-specialized datasets and conducts extensive experiments on representative multilingual model series to compare performances across models and tasks, explore the relationship between multilingual performances and factors, and examine the effectiveness of knowledge transfer from English to other languages.

Abstract

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) showcase varied multilingual capabilities across tasks like translation, code generation, and reasoning. Previous assessments often limited their scope to fundamental natural language processing (NLP) or isolated capability-specific tasks. To alleviate this drawback, we aim to present a comprehensive multilingual multitask benchmark. First, we introduce P-MMEval, a large-scale benchmark covering effective fundamental and capability-specialized datasets. Furthermore, P-MMEval delivers consistent language coverage across various datasets and provides parallel samples. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments on representative multilingual model series to compare performances across models and tasks, explore the relationship between multilingual performances and factors such as tasks, model sizes, languages, and prompts, and examine the effectiveness of knowledge transfer from English to other languages. The resulting insights are intended to offer valuable guidance for future research. The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Qwen/P-MMEval.