Cards Against Contamination: TCG-Bench for Difficulty-Scalable Multilingual LLM Reasoning.
| Authors | Sultan AlRashed et al. |
| Year | 2026 |
| Venue | EACL 2026 |
| Paper | View on ACL Anthology |
| PDF | Download |
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Engineering Breakdown
Plain English
This paper introduces TCG-Bench, a benchmark dataset for evaluating multilingual large language models on reasoning tasks with adjustable difficulty levels, using a card game format (Cards Against Humanity-inspired) as the evaluation framework. The benchmark enables systematic testing of LLM reasoning capabilities across multiple languages and difficulty tiers, helping identify where models struggle with complex multilingual reasoning.
Key Engineering Insight
The key insight is that difficulty-scalable benchmarks allow engineers to precisely measure at what complexity threshold multilingual LLMs fail, rather than getting a single pass/fail score. This granular difficulty progression reveals whether language-specific reasoning gaps are fundamental or just emerge under cognitive load.
Why It Matters for Engineers
Production systems serving multilingual users need to know not just if their LLM works, but at what task complexity it degrades per language. This benchmark lets you benchmark your deployed model's reasoning ceiling before shipping to international markets, avoiding costly post-deployment failures where certain languages underperform on complex reasoning.
Research Context
Prior multilingual benchmarks tested translation and basic language understanding, but lacked systematic reasoning evaluation across difficulty levels. This work extends the difficulty-scaling paradigm (proven useful in monolingual reasoning benchmarks) to the multilingual setting, enabling researchers and practitioners to identify whether reasoning gaps are language artifacts or genuine model limitations, advancing toward more reliable multilingual AI systems.
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