CultureTalk-ID - Translation into Local Languages: leaderboard

CultureTalk-ID (2026) tests cultural commonsense in dialogues grounded in regional Indonesian cultures, in Indonesian and in local languages such as Javanese, Minangkabau and Balinese. This board scores zero-shot translation of the dialogues from Indonesian into the local languages with BLEU-4 (0 to 100); higher is better.

Metric: BLEU-4 (0-100) of zero-shot dialogue translation from Indonesian into the local languages with province and language context, mean of three runs for open-weight models; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2029. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash28.36#453
2GPT-5.127.53#229
3gemma2-9B-cpt-sahabatai-v1-instruct21.7#1488
4Command A21.45#1274
5Gemma 2 9B (IT)20.54#2262
6Qwen 3 8B19.78#1830
7Llama 3.1 8B Instruct17.62#4246
8Sailor2-8B-Chat15.44#2396

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=culturetalk-id-translation-into-local-languages · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.