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LLMs face 'token tax' for Hinglish math problems, study finds

A new evaluation, hinglishbench, has measured the performance of three large language models on problems presented in Hinglish, a romanized Hindi-English code-mix common in India. The study found that Beam-1.0-501B-A23B exhibited a token tax, requiring approximately 1.5 times more output tokens for Hinglish answers compared to English ones for the same math problems. In contrast, Qwen3-32B showed improved accuracy on Hinglish inputs, and Gemma-3-27B-IT demonstrated no significant difference in accuracy or token usage. The evaluation was limited to a single run per problem and relied on automated quality checks, with translations performed by the Beam model itself. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential cost and accuracy trade-offs for LLMs operating in non-English, code-mixed languages.

RANK_REASON Research paper evaluating LLM performance on a specific language variant. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLMs face 'token tax' for Hinglish math problems, study finds

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Sanskar Kharya ·

    hinglish isn't free: measuring what three models pay to answer in romanized hindi

    <p>hinglish - the romanized hindi-english code-mix typed across india every day - is not english. beam's own model card says it "was developed predominantly for English" (<a href="https://huggingface.co/reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://huggingface.…