# Cross-lingual Question Answering on MLQA v1.0 (test)

Source: [Cross-lingual Question Answering on MLQA v1.0 (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-02-26T05:42:53.376Z

Evaluation of model performance on the test split of the MLQA v1.0 dataset, focusing on cross-lingual question answering capabilities across multiple languages (English, Spanish, German, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Chinese).

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Cross-lingual Question Answering |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | MLQA v1.0 (test) |
| Metric | F1 (es) |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 35 of 35 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [F1 (es)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(es)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [F1 (en)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(en)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (en)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(en)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (es)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(es)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [F1 (de)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(de)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (de)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(de)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [F1 (ar)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(ar)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (ar)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(ar)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [F1 (hi)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(hi)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (hi)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(hi)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [F1 (vi)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(vi)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (vi)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(vi)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [F1 (zh)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=F1%20(zh)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [EM (zh)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=EM%20(zh)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Avg F1 (Overall)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=Avg%20F1%20(Overall)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Avg EM (Overall)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/cross-lingual-question-answering-on-mlqa-v1-0-test.md?metric=Avg%20EM%20(Overall)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | F1 (es) | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| INFOXLM | 75.1 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-R | 74.7 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| mLUKE-E | 74.5 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| XLM-R | 74.4 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| mLUKE-W | 74.3 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| XLM-R | 74.1 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-R | 74.1 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| mLUKE-E | 70 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| INFOXLM | 69.8 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-R | 69.8 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| mLUKE-W | 69.7 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| INFOXLM | 69.6 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-K | 69.2 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| UNICODER | 68.6 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM | 68 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-15 | 68 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| BEPA Monolingual (Ours) | 67.8 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| BEPA Bilingual (Ours) | 67.8 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| XLM-R | 67.7 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-R | 67.7 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| XLM-R | 67.4 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| XLM-R Base | 67.4 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| XLM-RoBERTa (Ours) | 66.8 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| mBERT | 65.9 | Not recorded | 68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b |
| mBERT | 64.3 | Not recorded | 68fa69ae1e209131cea23547 |
| mBERT | 64.3 | Not recorded | 695b455a53fdd5c361742e54 |
| GPT-3 (All En) | 24.7 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| GPT-J (All En) | 24.3 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| Toolformer | 20.6 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| Toolformer (disabled) | 19.8 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| GPT-J + CC | 15.7 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| GPT-J | 15.2 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| GPT-3 | 3.4 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |
| OPT | 0.3 | Not recorded | 68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400 |

### INFOXLM

F1 (es): 75.1. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e632.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Implementation](<https://aka.ms/infoxlm>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"large"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 74.7. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c86757f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"large"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mLUKE-E

F1 (es): 74.5. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c867581.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/studio-ousia/luke>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"large","Input Features":"words+entities"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 74.4. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e631.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"large","reimpl":true}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mLUKE-W

F1 (es): 74.3. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c867580.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/studio-ousia/luke>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"large","Input Features":"words"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 74.1. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e630.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"large"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 74.1. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eed8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mLUKE-E

F1 (es): 70. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c86757d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/studio-ousia/luke>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"base","Input Features":"words+entities"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### INFOXLM

F1 (es): 69.8. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e62e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Implementation](<https://aka.ms/infoxlm>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"base"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 69.8. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c86757b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"base","Extra Training":"true"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mLUKE-W

F1 (es): 69.7. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c86757c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/studio-ousia/luke>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"base","Input Features":"words"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### INFOXLM

F1 (es): 69.6. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e62f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Implementation](<https://aka.ms/infoxlm>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"base","cross-lingual contrast":false}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-K

F1 (es): 69.2. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c86757e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c591e209131cea33748.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"base"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### UNICODER

F1 (es): 68.6. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e62b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67971e209131cea17487.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM

F1 (es): 68. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e62a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"source":"Lewis et al., 2020"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-15

F1 (es): 68. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eed6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67771e209131cea1684a.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BEPA Monolingual (Ours)

F1 (es): 67.8. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eeda.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### BEPA Bilingual (Ours)

F1 (es): 67.8. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eedb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 67.7. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e62d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"base","reimpl":true}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 67.7. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c86757a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"base"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R

F1 (es): 67.4. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e62c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"size":"base"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-R Base

F1 (es): 67.4. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eed7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67521e209131cea15706.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XLM-RoBERTa (Ours)

F1 (es): 66.8. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eed9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mBERT

F1 (es): 65.9. Result ID: 698ee84667eb08d78c867579.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c2c1e209131cea3289b.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa692c1e209131cea20906.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Scale":"base"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mBERT

F1 (es): 64.3. Result ID: 698dcff48b517eb43323e629.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69ae1e209131cea23547.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67771e209131cea1684a.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"source":"Lewis et al., 2020"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### mBERT

F1 (es): 64.3. Result ID: 6996a8195698665ec4f1eed5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695b455a53fdd5c361742e54.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67771e209131cea1684a.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Fine-tuned on":"English SQuAD","Evaluation":"Zero-shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-3 (All En)

F1 (es): 24.7. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d33.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"Contexts and questions in English","Parameters":"175B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-J (All En)

F1 (es): 24.3. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d32.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Evaluation Protocol":"Contexts and questions in English"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Toolformer

F1 (es): 20.6. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d2f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Tool usage":"enabled"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Toolformer (disabled)

F1 (es): 19.8. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d2e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Tool usage":"disabled"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-J + CC

F1 (es): 15.7. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d2d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Pre-training":"CCNet"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-J

F1 (es): 15.2. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d2c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: Not recorded. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-3

F1 (es): 3.4. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d31.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa680c1e209131cea19d53.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/overlap_frequency.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Parameters":"175B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### OPT

F1 (es): 0.3. Result ID: 699025443a6c314849fe6d30.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6e7d1e209131cea40400.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6cda1e209131cea36474.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Parameters":"66B"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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