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MWITA-AF-2026-008 · Evidence A · P0

IrokoBench's peer-reviewed evaluation of 17 human-translated low-resource African languages found the best tested open model, Gemma 2 27B, reached 63% of the best tested proprietary model GPT-4o across its benchmark, while translate-to-English improved some larger English-centric models.

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What this does not establish

The result does not show that proprietary models are universally better or that English translation preserves meaning in operational settings.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Benchmark contamination, translation artifacts, prompt sensitivity, closed-model drift, and task selection constrain external validity.

What would change the reading

Re-evaluate current candidate models on locally reviewed task sets, dialects, code-switching, safety, latency, and cost before launch.

Primary routes

  1. AF-S008https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.139/Open source record →

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