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We benchmarked TranslateGemma against 5 other LLMs on subtitle translation across 6 languages. At first glance the numbers told a clean story, but then human QA added a chapter. [D]

This content presents a benchmark study evaluating six Large Language Models (LLMs), including TranslateGemma-12b, on English subtitle translation into six languages. The models were ranked using reference-free Quality Evaluation (QE) metrics and a custom combined metric called TQI, where TranslateGemma-12b emerged as the top-performing model overall.

TranslateGemma Translation Benchmarking quality evaluation

We benchmarked TranslateGemma against 5 other LLMs on subtitle translation across 6 languages. At first glance the numbers told a clean story, but then human QA added a chapter. [D]

How I use an LLM as a translation judge

The author utilizes an LLM-based system, GEMBA-MQM v2, to automate translation quality evaluation, classifying errors by type and severity, mimicking human linguist reviews. Despite its high correlation with human annotations, the system faces noise, requiring multiple passes to mitigate score variability.