Using a 1PL IRT model on real cultural questions across 13 locales, the study identifies a local-language knowledge-access advantage masked by lower proficiency in raw accuracy.
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CARTE is a new benchmark for fine-grained regional knowledge in France that shows LLMs exhibit performance gaps across regions and scales, pointing to uneven pretraining coverage.
Maistros 8B is a new state-of-the-art open-weights Greek LLM built via knowledge distillation from large reasoning models on the CulturaQA dataset.
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The Masked Advantage: Uncovering Local-Language Access to Cultural Knowledge in LLMs
Using a 1PL IRT model on real cultural questions across 13 locales, the study identifies a local-language knowledge-access advantage masked by lower proficiency in raw accuracy.
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CARTE: A Benchmark for Mapping Language Model Knowledge Across France
CARTE is a new benchmark for fine-grained regional knowledge in France that shows LLMs exhibit performance gaps across regions and scales, pointing to uneven pretraining coverage.
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Maistros: A Greek Large Language Model Adapted Through Knowledge Distillation From Large Reasoning Models
Maistros 8B is a new state-of-the-art open-weights Greek LLM built via knowledge distillation from large reasoning models on the CulturaQA dataset.