IndicKLAR (Telugu): leaderboard

Factual knowledge recall in Telugu 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 Telugu 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)74.5#1849
2Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct51.5#1745
3Llama 3.1 8B Instruct50.9#4277
4Gemma 3 4B (IT)49.9#3848
5Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct47.3#2583
6Llama 3.2 3B Instruct38.5#7185
7Gemma 3 1B (IT)19.2#8752
8Qwen 2.5 1.5B Instruct18.9#7518
9Llama 3.2 1B Instruct18.1#9109

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

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