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    IrokoBench: a new benchmark for African languages in the age of Large Language Models
    (Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025) Adelani,D.I.; Ojo,J.; Azime,I.A.; Zhuang,J.Y.; Alabi,J.O.; He,X.; Ochieng,M.; Hooker,S.; Bukula,A.; Lee,E.-S.A.; Chukwuneke,C.; Buzaaba,H.; Sibanda,B.; Kalipe,G.; Mukiibi,J.; Kabongo,S.; Yuehgoh,F.; Setaka,M.; Ndolela,L.; Odu,N.; Mabuya,R.; Muhammad,S.H.; Osei, Salomey; Samb,S.; Guge,T.K.; Sherman,T.V.; Stenetorp,P.
    Despite the widespread adoption of Large language models (LLMs), their remarkable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. Additionally, many low-resource languages (e.g., African languages) are often evaluated only on basic text classification tasks due to the lack of appropriate or comprehensive benchmarks outside of high-resource languages. In this paper, we introduce IrokoBench-a human-translated benchmark dataset for 17 typologically-diverse low-resource African languages covering three tasks: natural language inference (AfriXNLI), mathematical reasoning (AfriMGSM), and multi-choice knowledge-based question answering (AfriMMLU). We use IrokoBench to evaluate zero-shot, few-shot, and translate-test settings (where test sets are translated into English) across 10 open and six proprietary LLMs. Our evaluation reveals a significant performance gap between high-resource languages (such as English and French) and low-resource African languages. We observe a significant performance gap between open and proprietary models, with the highest performing open model, Gemma 2 27B only at 63% of the best-performing proprietary model GPT-4o performance. In addition, machine translating the test set to English before evaluation helped to close the gap for larger models that are English-centric, such as Gemma 2 27B and LLaMa 3.1 70B. These findings suggest that more efforts are needed to develop and adapt LLMs for African languages.