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author = "Kim, Hyeonwoo and
Kim, Dahyun and
Kim, Jihoo and
Lee, Sukyung and
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Park, Chanjun",
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Yang, Yi and
Kachuee, Mohammad and
Fu, Xue-Yong",
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%A Kim, Hyeonwoo
%A Kim, Dahyun
%A Kim, Jihoo
%A Lee, Sukyung
%A Kim, Yungi
%A Park, Chanjun
%Y Chen, Weizhu
%Y Yang, Yi
%Y Kachuee, Mohammad
%Y Fu, Xue-Yong
%S Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: Industry Track)
%D 2025
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Albuquerque, New Mexico
%@ 979-8-89176-194-0
%F kim-etal-2025-open
%X The Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard has been instrumental in benchmarking Korean Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it has certain limitations. Notably, the disconnect between quantitative improvements on the overly academic leaderboard benchmarks and the qualitative impact of the models should be addressed. Furthermore, the benchmark suite is largely composed of translated versions of their English counterparts, which may not fully capture the intricacies of the Korean language. To address these issues, we propose Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard2, an improved version of the earlier Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard. The original benchmarks are entirely replaced with new tasks that are more closely aligned with real-world capabilities. Additionally, four new native Korean benchmarks are introduced to better reflect the distinct characteristics of the Korean language. Through these refinements, Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard2 seeks to provide a more meaningful evaluation for advancing Korean LLMs.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.22
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-industry.22/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.22
%P 266-273
Markdown (Informal)
[Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard2: Bridging Foundational and Practical Evaluation for Korean LLMs](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-industry.22/) (Kim et al., NAACL 2025)
ACL
- Hyeonwoo Kim, Dahyun Kim, Jihoo Kim, Sukyung Lee, Yungi Kim, and Chanjun Park. 2025. Open Ko-LLM Leaderboard2: Bridging Foundational and Practical Evaluation for Korean LLMs. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: Industry Track), pages 266–273, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.