IndicKLAR (Nepali): leaderboard

Factual knowledge recall in Nepali from IndicKLAR (Mazumder, Pathak, Kodali, Joshi, Agarwal and Patro, 2026): 2,619 KLAR-CLC queries about entities across 20 relations, machine-translated without native-speaker review. Accuracy in percent counts an answer when it and the gold answer are case-insensitive prefixes of each other (higher is better), with direct 3-shot prompting using English examples and greedy decoding.

Metric: Accuracy (%; relaxed prefix match of the answer to 2,619 factual queries in Nepali script, machine-translated, not speaker-verified; direct 3-shot prompting with English examples, greedy decoding). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemma 3 12B (IT)71.4#1849
2Llama 3.1 8B Instruct55.6#4277
3Gemma 3 4B (IT)51.8#3848
4Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct43.9#2583
5Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct36.4#1745
6Llama 3.2 3B Instruct35.2#7185
7Qwen 2.5 1.5B Instruct28.9#7518
8Llama 3.2 1B Instruct22.7#9109
9Gemma 3 1B (IT)15.6#8752

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=indicklar-nepali · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.