5-Dialects-BN: Unmasking the Impact of Transliteration on Bangla Dialectal LLMs

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arXiv:2609.09964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their capabilities degrade sharply for low-resource languages and dialectally diverse settings. Bangla, the world's sixth most spoken language, exemplifies this gap: existing resources overwhelmingly target Standard Bangla, leaving its regional dialects without the benchmarks needed to develop or evaluate dialect-aware systems. We addr