The rapid growth of machine translation (MT) systems has necessitated comprehensive studies to meta-evaluate evaluation metrics being used, which enables a better selection of metrics that best reflect MT quality. Unfortunately, most of the research focuses on high-resource languages, mainly English, the observations for which may not always apply to other languages. Indian languages, having over a billion speakers, are linguistically different from English, and to date, there has not been a systematic study of evaluating MT systems from English into Indian languages. In this paper, we fill this gap by creating an MQM dataset consisting of 7000 fine-grained annotations, spanning 5 Indian languages and 7 MT systems, and use it to establish correlations between annotator scores and scores obtained using existing automatic metrics. Our results show that pre-trained metrics, such as COMET, have the highest correlations with annotator scores. Additionally, we find that the metrics do not adequately capture fluency-based errors in Indian languages, and there is a need to develop metrics focused on Indian languages. We hope that our dataset and analysis will help promote further research in this area.

We present, Naamapadam, the largest publicly available Named Entity Recognition (NER) dataset for the 11 major Indian languages from two language families. In each language, it contains more than 400k sentences annotated with a total of at least 100k entities from three standard entity categories (Person, Location and Organization) for 9 out of the 11 languages. The training dataset has been automatically created from the Samanantar parallel corpus by projecting automatically tagged entities from an English sentence to the corresponding Indian language sentence. We also create manually annotated testsets for 8 languages containing approximately 1000 sentences per language. We demonstrate the utility of the obtained dataset on existing testsets and the Naamapadam-test data for 8 Indic languages. We also release IndicNER, a multilingual mBERT model fine-tuned on the Naamapadam training set. IndicNER achieves the best F1 on the Naamapadam-test set compared to an mBERT model fine-tuned on existing datasets. IndicNER achieves an F1 score of more than 80 for 7 out of 11 Indic languages. The dataset and models are available under open-source licenses at https://ai4bharat.iitm.ac.in/naamapadam.

In this work, we introduce IndicXTREME, a benchmark consisting of nine diverse tasks covering 18 languages from the Indic sub-continent belonging to four different families. Across languages and tasks, IndicXTREME contains a total of 103 evaluation sets, of which 51 are new contributions to the literature. To maintain high quality, we only use human annotators to curate or translate\footnote{for IndicXParaphrase, where an automatic translation system is used, a second human verification and correction step is done.} our datasets. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort toward creating a standard benchmark for Indic languages that aims to test the zero-shot capabilities of pretrained language models. We also release IndicCorp v2, an updated and much larger version of IndicCorp that contains 20.9 billion tokens in 24 languages. We pretrain IndicBERT v2 on IndicCorp v2 and evaluate it on IndicXTREME to show that it outperforms existing multilingual language models such as XLM-R and MuRIL.

端到端（E2E）模型已成为最新语音识别系统的默认选择。此类型号经过大量标记数据的培训，这些数据通常无法用于低资源语言。诸如自我监督学习和转移学习的诺言之类的技术尚未在培训准确的模型中有效。另一方面，在各种域和扬声器集合上收集标记的数据集非常昂贵。在这项工作中，我们通过公共资料中的印度语言，特别是来自印度广播电台的公共档案馆的印度语言的``采矿''文本和音频对展示了这些方法的廉价和有效替代方案。作为关键组件，我们将Needleman-Wunsch算法调整为与相应的音频片段对齐句子，并给定长音频和其转录本的PDF，同时由于OCR，无关紧要的文本和未转录的语音而对错误进行了强大的态度。因此，我们创建了Shrutilipi，这是一个数据集，其中包含超过6,400个小时的12个印度语言标签的音频，总计为495万个句子。平均而言，Shrutilipi导致2.3倍增加了公开可用的标签数据。我们在12种语言中与21种人类评估者建立了Shrutilipi的质量。我们还根据代表区域，说话者和提到的实体建立了Shrutilipi的多样性。值得注意的是，我们表明，将Shrutilipi添加到WAV2VEC模型的训练集中，导致在Indicsuperb基准上的7种语言中，平均降低了5.8 \％。对于具有最多基准的印地语（7），平均水平从18.8％下降到13.5％。这种改进扩展到有效的模型：对于构象异构体模型（比WAV2VEC小10倍），我们显示出2.3％的下降。最后，我们通过证明对其进行训练的模型对嘈杂的输入更强大，证明了Shrutilipi的多样性。

AI研究中的基石是创建和采用标准化培训和测试数据集，以指定最新模型的进度。一个特别成功的例子是用于培训和评估英语自然语言理解（NLU）模型的胶水数据集。围绕基于BERT的语言模型的大量研究围绕着胶水中NLU任务的性能改进。为了评估其他语言的语言模型，创建了几个特定语言的胶水数据集。语音语言理解（SLU）的领域遵循了类似的轨迹。大型自我监督模型（例如WAV2VEC2）的成功实现了具有相对易于访问的未标记数据的语音模型。然后可以在SLU任务（例如出色的基准测试）上评估这些模型。在这项工作中，我们将其扩展到通过释放Indicsuperb基准测试来指示语言。具体来说，我们做出以下三项贡献。 （i）我们收集了Kathbath，其中包含来自印度203个地区的1,218个贡献者的12个印度语言的1,684小时的标记语音数据。 （ii）使用Kathbath，我们在6个语音任务中创建基准：自动语音识别，扬声器验证，说话者识别（单声道/多），语言识别，逐个示例查询以及对12种语言的关键字发现。 （iii）在发布的基准测试中，我们与常用的基线Fbank一起训练和评估不同的自我监督模型。我们表明，在大多数任务上，特定于语言的微调模型比基线更准确，包括对于语言识别任务的76 \％差距。但是，对于说话者识别，在大型数据集上训练的自我监督模型证明了一个优势。我们希望Indicsuperb有助于发展印度语言的语音语言理解模型的进步。

最近的言语和语言技术的方法预先rain非常大型模型，用于特定任务。然而，这种大型模型的好处通常仅限于世界上少数资源丰富的语言。在这项工作中，我们对来自印度次大陆的低资源语言构建ASR系统进行多种贡献。首先，我们从各种领域策划40个印度语言的17,000小时的原始语音数据，包括教育，新闻，技术和金融。其次，使用这种原始语音数据，我们预先存在于40个印度语言的Wav2Vec样式模型的多个变体。第三，我们分析佩带的模型以查找关键特点：码本矢量的类似探测音素在语言中共享，跨层的表示是语言系列的判别，并且注意力头通常会在小型本地窗口中注意。第四，我们微调了9种语言的下游ASR模型，并在3个公共数据集上获得最先进的结果，包括非常低的资源语言，如Sinhala和Nepali。我们的工作建立了多语言预介质是建立ASR系统的有效策略，为印度次大陆的语言上不同的扬声器建立ASR系统。

多语言语言模型（\ mllms），如mbert，xlm，xlm-r，\ textit {etc。}已成为一种可行的选择，使预先估计到大量语言的力量。鉴于他们的成功在零射击转移学习中，在（i）建立更大的\ mllms〜覆盖了大量语言（ii）创建覆盖更广泛的任务和语言来评估的详尽工作基准mllms〜（iii）分析单音零点，零拍摄交叉和双语任务（iv）对Monolingual的性能，了解\ mllms〜（v）增强（通常）学习的通用语言模式（如果有的话）有限的容量\ mllms〜以提高他们在已见甚至看不见语言的表现。在这项调查中，我们审查了现有的文学，涵盖了上述与\ MLLMS有关的广泛研究领域。根据我们的调查，我们建议您有一些未来的研究方向。

我们介绍Samanantar，是最大的公开可用的并行Corpora Collection，用于指示语言。该集合中的英语和11个上线语言之间总共包含4970万句对（来自两种语言系列）。具体而言，我们从现有的公共可用并行基层编译1240万句对，另外，从网络上挖掘3740万句对，导致4倍增加。我们通过组合许多语料库，工具和方法来挖掘网站的并行句子：（a）Web爬行单格式语料库，（b）文档OCR，用于从扫描的文档中提取句子，（c）用于对齐句子的多语言表示模型，以及（d）近似最近的邻居搜索搜索大量句子。人类评估新矿业的Corpora的样本验证了11种语言的高质量平行句子。此外，我们使用英语作为枢轴语言，从英式并行语料库中提取所有55个指示语言对之间的834百万句子对。我们培训了跨越Samanantar上所有这些语言的多语种NMT模型，这在公开可用的基准上表现出现有的模型和基准，例如弗洛雷斯，建立萨曼塔尔的效用。我们的数据和模型可在Https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org/samanantar/上公开提供，我们希望他们能够帮助推进NMT和Multibingual NLP的研究。

Recent times have witnessed an increasing number of applications of deep neural networks towards solving tasks that require superior cognitive abilities, e.g., playing Go, generating art, question answering (such as ChatGPT), etc. Such a dramatic progress raises the question: how generalizable are neural networks in solving problems that demand broad skills? To answer this question, we propose SMART: a Simple Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Task and the associated SMART-101 dataset, for evaluating the abstraction, deduction, and generalization abilities of neural networks in solving visuo-linguistic puzzles designed specifically for children in the 6-8 age group. Our dataset consists of 101 unique puzzles; each puzzle comprises a picture and a question, and their solution needs a mix of several elementary skills, including arithmetic, algebra, and spatial reasoning, among others. To scale our dataset towards training deep neural networks, we programmatically generate entirely new instances for each puzzle while retaining their solution algorithm. To benchmark the performance on the SMART-101 dataset, we propose a vision and language meta-learning model using varied state-of-the-art backbone neural networks. Our experiments reveal that while powerful deep models offer reasonable performances on puzzles that they are trained on, they are not better than random accuracy when analyzed for generalization. We also evaluate the recent ChatGPT large language model on a subset of our dataset and find that while ChatGPT produces convincing reasoning abilities, the answers are often incorrect.

Recently, graph neural networks have been gaining a lot of attention to simulate dynamical systems due to their inductive nature leading to zero-shot generalizability. Similarly, physics-informed inductive biases in deep-learning frameworks have been shown to give superior performance in learning the dynamics of physical systems. There is a growing volume of literature that attempts to combine these two approaches. Here, we evaluate the performance of thirteen different graph neural networks, namely, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian graph neural networks, graph neural ODE, and their variants with explicit constraints and different architectures. We briefly explain the theoretical formulation highlighting the similarities and differences in the inductive biases and graph architecture of these systems. We evaluate these models on spring, pendulum, gravitational, and 3D deformable solid systems to compare the performance in terms of rollout error, conserved quantities such as energy and momentum, and generalizability to unseen system sizes. Our study demonstrates that GNNs with additional inductive biases, such as explicit constraints and decoupling of kinetic and potential energies, exhibit significantly enhanced performance. Further, all the physics-informed GNNs exhibit zero-shot generalizability to system sizes an order of magnitude larger than the training system, thus providing a promising route to simulate large-scale realistic systems.