Mizan: A National Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi Civic Context

arXiv:2609.13980 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-12

Updated: 2026-09-12

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Live leaderboard: https://mizan-bench.onrender.com

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modern Standard Arabic — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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