QUENCH: Measuring the gap between Indic and Non-Indic Contextual General Reasoning in LLMs
Mohammad Aflah Khan, Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, Md. Shad Akhtar
Abstract
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has created a need for advanced benchmarking systems beyond traditional setups. To this end, we introduce QUENCH, a novel text-based English Quizzing Benchmark manually curated and transcribed from YouTube quiz videos. QUENCH possesses masked entities and rationales for the LLMs to predict via generation. At the intersection of world knowledge, geographical context, and common sense reasoning, QUENCH helps assess world knowledge and deduction capabilities of LLMs via a zero-shot, open-domain quizzing setup. We perform an extensive evaluation on 7 LLMs and 4 metrics, investigating the influence of model size, prompting style, geographical context, and gold-labeled rationale generation. The benchmarking concludes with an error analysis of various types of generative errors to which the LLMs are prone.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{khan-etal-2025-quench,
title = "{QUENCH}: Measuring the gap between {I}ndic and Non-{I}ndic Contextual General Reasoning in {LLM}s",
author = "Khan, Mohammad Aflah and
Yadav, Neemesh and
Masud, Sarah and
Akhtar, Md. Shad",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.303/",
pages = "4493--4509"
}