Mizan：面向伊拉克阿拉伯语与伊拉克公民语境的大模型国家基准

Computer Science > Computation and Language arXiv:2609.13980 (cs) [Submitted on 12 Sep 2026] Title:Mizan: A National Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi Civic Context Authors:Nawar S. Alseelawi, Mustafa S. Aljumaily View a PDF of the paper titled Mizan: A National Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi Civic Context, by Nawar S. Alseelawi and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Arabic large-language-model (LLM) evaluation has matured around Modern Standard Arabic (MSA): aggregated leaderboards such as the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard (OALL), HELM Arabic, and BALSAM rank models across dozens of MSA tasks, and frontier systems increasingly saturate them. Dialectal Arabic, the language Iraqis actually speak, remains nearly invisible to this infrastructure. We introduce Mizan ("the balance"), Iraq's national benchmark for evaluating LLMs on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi civic context: an MSA baseline track paired with an Iraqi track across six axes (dialect comprehension, dialect generation, bidirectional MSA-Iraqi translation, Iraq-specific knowledge, official-document field extraction, and safety), built from 340 originally authored, dually reviewed items with statistically audited answer positions and Wilson intervals on every published score. A pilot evaluation of 27 systems, spanning closed frontier models three days after release, open weights across size tiers, and an Arabic trio of commercial, open-specialized, and sovereign systems, yields four findings. The MSA track saturates while the Iraqi track discriminates, with a consistent 14-18-point per-model gap and statistically tied leaders. Official-document extraction confines every system to 32-56. Arabic-focused specialization behaves as MSA specialization: two dedicated Arabic models score below a size-matched generalist on the Iraqi track. And the safety-hardened tier of the newest model family deterministically refuses innocuous dialect-comprehension items as policy violations, an over-refusal mode invisible to MSA benchmarks. The platform enforces an integrity protocol of immutable snapshots, verification certificates, a human publication gate, and public retraction, all exercised during this study. Code and the public development set accompany the paper. Comments: Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2609.13980 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.13980v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.13980 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Nawar Alseelawi [view email] [v1] Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:52:16 UTC (404 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Mizan: A National Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi Civic Context, by Nawar S. Alseelawi and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)