ArabCulture-Dialogue - MSA to Dialect Translation: leaderboard

Metric: Overall translation quality (1-5), GPT-5 judge (low reasoning) holistic rating, zero-shot MSA to Dialect translation of the dialogues of ArabCulture-Dialogue (13 Arab countries, parallel Modern Standard Arabic and country-dialect versions of 3,471 culturally grounded multi-turn dialogues built from ArabCulture), with the target country and region named in the prompt; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1GPT-54.53
2Gemini 2.5 Pro4.19
3ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview3.41
4c4ai-command-r7B-arabic-02-20253
5Fanar-1-9B2.94
6jais-adapted-7B-chat2.44
7Qwen 3 8B2.35
8Hala-9B1.76
9Gemma 2 9B (IT)1.5
10Llama 3.1 8B Instruct1.34
11SILMA-9B-Instruct-v1.01.3

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