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Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs

arXiv · · Significant research

NLP LLM Arabic AI Research Dataset

Summary

A new culturally inclusive and linguistically diverse dataset called Palm for Arabic LLMs is introduced, covering 22 Arab countries and featuring instructions in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and dialectal Arabic (DA) across 20 topics. The dataset was built through a year-long community-driven project involving 44 researchers from across the Arab world. Evaluation of frontier LLMs using the dataset reveals limitations in cultural and dialectal understanding, with some countries being better represented than others.

Keywords

Arabic · LLM · dataset · cultural sensitivity · dialectal Arabic

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