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arxiv: 2605.22487 · v1 · pith:WXIT2W3Rnew · submitted 2026-05-21 · 💻 cs.CL

Polite on the Surface, Wrong in Practice: A Curated Dataset for Fixing Honorific Failures in Multilingual Bangla Generation

Md. Asaduzzaman Shuvo , Mahedi Hasan , Md. Tashin Parvez , Azizul Haque Noman , Md. Shafayet Hossain Ovi This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CL
keywords Bangla generationhonorific alignmentmultilingual LLMsinstruction tuningpragmatic disparitieslow-resource languagesdataset curationcultural context
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The pith

A curated dataset of 4,196 Bangla pairs lets models handle honorifics and cultural context more accurately.

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The paper introduces the BLADE dataset of 4,196 manually curated interaction pairs to tackle how multilingual language models mishandle honorific conventions, regional idioms, and structural variations when generating Bangla text. It fine-tunes models including DeepSeek-8B and LLaMA-3.2-3B using LoRA adapters on quantized weights and measures gains in fidelity and alignment. A sympathetic reader would care because these pragmatic elements determine whether AI outputs feel natural and respectful in everyday Bangla conversations rather than merely fluent on the surface.

Core claim

We introduce the BLADE dataset and benchmarking framework comprising 4,196 meticulously curated interaction pairs. We leverage this resource to systematically fine-tune and evaluate leading open-weight architectures, including DeepSeek-8B and LLaMA-3.2-3B, utilizing parameter-efficient fine-tuning via LoRA adapters in a 4-bit NormalFloat quantization framework. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate that models fine-tuned on our dataset yield substantial improvements in structural fidelity and honorific alignment, providing a rigorous benchmark for bridging pragmatic disparities in low-resource multilingual text generation.

What carries the argument

The BLADE dataset of 4,196 curated interaction pairs, used to instruction-tune models for improved honorific consistency and structural fidelity in Bangla dialogue and application generation.

If this is right

  • Fine-tuned models produce Bangla outputs with higher structural fidelity than untuned counterparts.
  • Honorific alignment improves across conversational contexts in low-resource multilingual generation.
  • The dataset serves as a benchmark for measuring pragmatic capabilities beyond surface-level fluency.
  • The LoRA-based tuning approach on quantized models scales to other open-weight architectures for similar fixes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The curation method could transfer to other languages that rely on layered honorific systems to address comparable gaps in current models.
  • Improved cultural alignment might increase user trust and adoption of AI tools in Bangla-speaking communities.
  • This work highlights the need for evaluation suites that test pragmatic consistency rather than isolated translation accuracy.

Load-bearing premise

The 4,196 manually curated interaction pairs accurately capture the structural variations, regional idioms, and honorific consistencies required for culturally appropriate Bangla generation.

What would settle it

Running the fine-tuned models on a fresh set of Bangla prompts that require context-specific honorific shifts (such as elder versus peer address in the same scenario) and checking whether error rates drop below baseline levels would confirm or refute the claimed gains.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.22487 by Azizul Haque Noman, Mahedi Hasan, Md. Asaduzzaman Shuvo, Md. Shafayet Hossain Ovi, Md. Tashin Parvez.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: BLADE methodology: three-tier data collection, LoRA-based fine-tuning of pre-trained multilingual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Recent advances in Multilingual Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced cross-lingual conversational capabilities, yet modeling culturally nuanced and context-dependent communication remains a critical bottleneck. Specifically, existing state-of-the-art models exhibit a severe pragmatic gap when handling structural variations, regional idioms, and honorific consistencies in low-resource contexts like Bangla. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel, culturally aligned instruction-tuning dataset for \textbf{BangLa Application and DialoguE generation - BLADE} and benchmarking framework comprising $4,196$ meticulously curated interaction pairs. We leverage this resource to systematically fine-tune and evaluate leading open-weight architectures, including DeepSeek-8B and LLaMA-3.2-3B, utilizing parameter-efficient fine-tuning via LoRA adapters in a 4-bit NormalFloat (NF4) quantization framework. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate that models fine-tuned on our dataset yield substantial improvements in structural fidelity and honorific alignment, providing a rigorous benchmark for bridging pragmatic disparities in low-resource multilingual text generation. Code and dataset: https://github.com/ashuvo25/Bangla_Application_LLM/tree/main

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces the BLADE dataset of 4,196 manually curated interaction pairs to address honorific and pragmatic failures in Bangla generation by multilingual LLMs. It applies parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA with 4-bit NF4 quantization) to models including DeepSeek-8B and LLaMA-3.2-3B and claims that the resulting models show substantial gains in structural fidelity and honorific alignment, offering a benchmark for culturally appropriate low-resource text generation.

Significance. A well-validated dataset and benchmark for Bangla honorific pragmatics would be a useful contribution to low-resource multilingual generation, an area where current models often fail on context-dependent politeness. The open release of code and data supports reproducibility and extension by others.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that fine-tuned models 'yield substantial improvements in structural fidelity and honorific alignment' is presented without any quantitative metrics, baseline comparisons, error analysis, or statistical significance tests. This absence prevents assessment of the magnitude or reliability of the gains and is load-bearing for the central empirical contribution.
  2. [Dataset curation] Dataset curation section: the assertion that the 4,196 pairs 'accurately capture the structural variations, regional idioms, and honorific consistencies' lacks supporting details on sampling frame, regional/dialect coverage (Bangladesh vs. West Bengal), inter-annotator agreement, or external validation against native-speaker corpora. Manual curation of pragmatic phenomena is prone to curator bias, and this gap directly affects the claim that BLADE provides a 'rigorous benchmark'.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The acronym expansion 'BangLa Application and DialoguE generation' contains inconsistent capitalization that should be standardized.
  2. [Abstract] The GitHub link is given but the manuscript does not specify the exact data format, annotation guidelines, or train/validation/test splits used in the reported experiments.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback, which highlights areas where additional clarity will strengthen the presentation of our contributions. We address each major comment below and commit to revisions that improve transparency without altering the core claims supported by our experiments.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that fine-tuned models 'yield substantial improvements in structural fidelity and honorific alignment' is presented without any quantitative metrics, baseline comparisons, error analysis, or statistical significance tests. This absence prevents assessment of the magnitude or reliability of the gains and is load-bearing for the central empirical contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, as a high-level summary, does not include the specific quantitative results that appear in the evaluation section of the manuscript. The full paper reports baseline comparisons (untuned vs. LoRA-tuned DeepSeek-8B and LLaMA-3.2-3B), honorific alignment accuracy, structural fidelity scores, and qualitative error analysis across test cases. We will revise the abstract to incorporate the most salient metrics (e.g., absolute and relative gains in honorific consistency) and reference the relevant tables and any statistical tests performed. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Dataset curation] Dataset curation section: the assertion that the 4,196 pairs 'accurately capture the structural variations, regional idioms, and honorific consistencies' lacks supporting details on sampling frame, regional/dialect coverage (Bangladesh vs. West Bengal), inter-annotator agreement, or external validation against native-speaker corpora. Manual curation of pragmatic phenomena is prone to curator bias, and this gap directly affects the claim that BLADE provides a 'rigorous benchmark'.

    Authors: We will expand the dataset curation section to describe the sampling frame (targeted coverage of common conversational contexts where honorific failures were observed in preliminary model outputs), the regional dialect distribution (examples drawn from both Bangladeshi and West Bengali usage patterns via native annotators), and the curation guidelines intended to reduce individual bias. Formal inter-annotator agreement statistics were not computed given the small annotator pool and the subjective nature of pragmatic labeling; we will explicitly note this limitation. External corpus validation for context-dependent honorifics is difficult due to the scarcity of annotated pragmatic resources in Bangla, but we will reference available linguistic surveys to situate the dataset. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: dataset curation and empirical fine-tuning are self-contained

full rationale

The paper introduces an externally curated dataset (BLADE, 4,196 pairs) and applies standard parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA on quantized models) followed by empirical evaluation of improvements in honorific alignment. No mathematical derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the abstract or described contribution. The central claim rests on the external creation of the dataset and observable post-training metrics rather than any reduction of outputs to inputs by construction. This is the normal non-circular case for dataset papers.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The work rests on the domain assumption that the curated pairs faithfully represent Bangla pragmatic norms and that LoRA fine-tuning on this data will produce measurable transfer to the target models.

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  • domain assumption The 4,196 curated interaction pairs accurately capture the structural variations, regional idioms, and honorific consistencies required for culturally appropriate Bangla generation.
    This premise underpins both dataset construction and the claim of improvement; it is invoked when the authors state that the resource addresses the pragmatic gap.

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