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NEWS ABSTRACT10/22/2026 · one shared analysis
CulturalRiddles is a benchmark for testing cultural awareness and cultural reasoning in large language models, using riddles drawn from 62 cultures across 45 countries and 51 languages. The paper describes a participatory data creation process, human evaluation, and tuning of an automatic evaluation metric. It reports analysis of scores from 28 LLMs on the benchmark.
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Most LLM benchmarks are English-centric, so a multilingual, culturally diverse test set can reveal gaps in how models handle non-Western cultural knowledge and reasoning.
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cultural benchmarkriddlesmultilingual evaluationllm evaluationcultural reasoning
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