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J. Montalan

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Preprint Aug 2026

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking practical help over multiple turns in culturally grounded scenarios. We introduce CultureConverse, a scalable, multilingual simulation and evalua...

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Wei-Hua Zheng, Thong T. Doan et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

SEA-LION-v4.8: A Technical Report

Across seven Southeast Asian languages, broad capability gains are observed with the 120B-A12B model showing broader and more consistent improvements across tasks, with the 30B-A3B model showing broader and more consistent improvements across tasks.

Adila Aulia, Ahmed Dabeer, Ahn Jeongmi et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

CultureConverse is introduced, a scalable, multilingual simulation and evaluation harness for culturally grounded assistant dialogue that covers 10 East and Southeast Asian regions, 58 subgroup identities, and 7 domains and performance gains from fine-tuning on 27,860 high-quality CultureConverse-DS samples improve in-...

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan et al. · 0 citations