Comparative Evaluation of Modern Large Language Models for Nepali Language Generation
摘要
This study investigates the performance of modern multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs), including Qwen, LLaMA variants, Phi-4, Mistral, and DeepSeek on Nepali Question Answering (QA) tasks, a largely underexplored area in low-resource language processing. We employ both human and LLM-based evaluations, along with embedding-based semantic evaluation (using BERTScore for precision, recall, and F1-Score), based on four key criteria: correctness and relevance, language quality, context understanding, and conciseness and informativeness. The experiment utilized a Nepali QA dataset that was developed to check the model’s capability to accommodate the linguistic nuances. The result revealed that Phi-4 outperformed all other models, therefore illustrating that it has an accurate and context-aware interpretation of Nepali semantics. The research highlights the advantages and limitations of multilingual LLMs in low-resource conditions and it also assists in selecting the appropriate model and arranging future studies in Nepali NLP.