arXiv Computation and Language September 2, 2026 By Tarek Naous, Anagha Savit, Carlos Rafael Catalan, Geyang Guo, Jaehyeok Lee, Kyungdon Lee, Lheane Marie Dizon, Mengyu Ye, Neel Kothari, Sahajpreet Singh, Sarah Masud, Tanish Patwa, Trung Thanh Tran, Zohaib Khan, Alan Ritter, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yuki Arase, Keisuke Sakaguchi, JinYeong Bak, Wei Xu

Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian Languages

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Camellia is a new benchmark that tests cultural bias in large language models (LLMs) across nine Asian languages and six Asian cultures. It contains 19,530 manually annotated entities linked to Asian or Western cultures and 2,173 masked social‑media contexts for these entities. Using Camellia, the authors evaluate four multilingual LLMs on cultural context adaptation, sentiment association, and entity extractive QA, finding that models struggle with cultural adaptation, exhibit differing biases across regions and families, and have difficulty understanding context in some Asian languages.

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