BnMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Bengali

BnMMLU is a multiple-choice Bengali-language benchmark for Massive Multitask Language Understanding. It covers various academic and general-knowledge subjects (e.g., Accounting, Mathematics, Science, Humanities) with each example consisting of:

• (string): Unique question identifier.
• (string): Domain/subject of the question (e.g., Accounting).
• (string): The Bengali question text.
• (list<string>): Four answer choices in Bengali.
• (string): The correct option label ("a", "b", "c", or "d").
• (int): Character length of the question.
• (string): Split indicator ("train", "validation", or "test").

If you are using the dataset, please cite it using:

@misc{joy2025bnmmlumeasuringmassivemultitask,
      title={BnMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Bengali}, 
      author={Saman Sarker Joy},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2505.18951},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18951}, 
}