SEATauBench: Adapting Tool-Agent-User Evaluation Into Low-Resource Southeast Asian Languages
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Title:SEATauBench: Adapting Tool-Agent-User Evaluation Into Low-Resource Southeast Asian Languages
Abstract:While AI development and evaluation for Southeast Asia (SEA) has grown rapidly, agent capabilities in regional languages are still poorly understood despite its importance to sovereign AI. To fill this gap, we introduce SEATauBench, the first agent-focused evaluation framework for SEA sovereign AI. SeaTau adapts TauBench to five languages -- Mandarin, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Filipino -- and evaluates agents across progressively localized settings that vary the language of user-agent interaction, tool specifications, and task domains. Across three recent models, we find that English agent capabilities transfer reasonably well when only the conversation language changes, but quality and robustness degrade sharply as more task contexts are localized, with the largest losses in full domain adaptation. We also the limits of English-only agent assessment for measuring agent capabilities in SEA languages. More broadly, SeaTau provides a diagnostic benchmark and reusable adaptation pipeline for building reliable multilingual agents for linguistically diverse regions. Data and code can be accessed at this http URL.
| Comments: | 23 pages |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.28715 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.28715v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.28715
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From: Saksorn Ruangtanusak [view email][v1] Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:44:00 UTC (1,190 KB)
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