IndicKLAR (Sanskrit): leaderboard

Factual knowledge recall in Sanskrit from IndicKLAR (Mazumder, Pathak, Kodali, Joshi, Agarwal and Patro, 2026): 2,619 KLAR-CLC queries about entities across 20 relations, machine-translated and checked by native speakers. 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 Sanskrit script, native-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)69.5#1849
2Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct51.7#1745
3Llama 3.1 8B Instruct50.9#4277
4Gemma 3 4B (IT)47#3848
5Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct37.7#2583
6Llama 3.2 3B Instruct31.2#7185
7Llama 3.2 1B Instruct22.5#9109
8Qwen 2.5 1.5B Instruct21.5#7518
9Gemma 3 1B (IT)19#8752

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

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