2 papers
cs.CL2026
CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia
Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan +30
Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking pract…
cs.CL2026
BM25 Wins at Scale: A Scaling Study of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Paradigms
Pengyu Wang, Benfeng Xu, Shaohan Wang +5
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) spans lexical and dense retrieval, graph-based indexing, and agentic search, but these paradigms are usually evaluated on different benchmarks…