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TydiQA

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Models answer information-seeking questions from Wikipedia articles in 11 typologically diverse languages, across 204K question-answer pairs. Scored by F1.

Model cards usually report the gold passage (GoldP) task.

Made by
Google Research
Released
March 2020
Kind
Reading in many languages
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Short answer
Tasks
Public, plus a private test set
Strongest model tested
Llama 4 Maverick #153 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
April 2025, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
April 2025

In the authors’ words

Confidently making progress on multilingual modeling requires challenging, trustworthy evaluations. We present TyDi QA—a question answering dataset covering 11 typologically diverse languages with 204K question-answer pairs. The languages of TyDi QA are diverse with regard to their typology—the set of linguistic features each language expresses—such that we expect models performing well on this set to generalize across a large number of the world's languages. We present a quantitative analysis of the data quality and example-level qualitative linguistic analyses of observed language phenomena that would not be found in English-only corpora. To provide a realistic information-seeking task and avoid priming effects, questions are written by people who want to know the answer, but don't know the answer yet, and the data is collected directly in each language without the use of translation.

Abstract of TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages (arXiv:2003.05002, CC0)
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Models scored in lab cards
2
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
2
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Llama 4 Maverick leads with 31.7%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Llama 4 Maverick 31.7%
  2. 2 Llama 4 Scout 31.5%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Llama 4 Maverick 31.7% Apr 2025 Lab model card
2 Llama 4 Scout 31.5% Apr 2025 Lab model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Llama 4 Maverick 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Llama 4 Maverick

Source: Labs’ model cards

No launch post has listed it since April 2025

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Meta
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Scout 31.5 TydiQA (1-shot, average/f1) [pretrained]
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Maverick 31.7 TydiQA (1-shot, average/f1) [pretrained]

2 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Scout model card 31.5 TydiQA, 1-shot, average/f1, pretrained (Pre-trained models table) Capabilities
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Maverick model card 31.7 TydiQA, 1-shot, average/f1, pretrained (Pre-trained models table) Capabilities

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