mingyang26/knights-and-knaves-multilingual

Multilingual Knights-and-Knaves Dataset

💡 Introduction

This dataset extends the Knights-and-Knaves logical reasoning dataset into five additional languages:

• ar – Arabic
• fr – French
• hi – Hindi
• ja – Japanese
• zh – Chinese

The dataset was introduced in our EMNLP 2025 paper:
➡️ Language Mixing in Reasoning Language Models: Patterns, Impact, and Internal Causes

The companion code for reproducing our analyses is available in this repository: 👉 Language-Mixing (coming soon)

📂 Dataset Structure

• Source: The first 200 training samples from the original English-only dataset.
• Translations: Each sample is translated into the five target languages.
• Format: Saved under the path pattern: kk_<LANGUAGE>/<x>ppl/train.json

⚙️ Evaluation

Use the kk_evaluation_multi.py script to evaluate on the multilingual dataset.

📙 Citation

If you use this dataset or our paper in your research, please cite:

@article{wang2025language,
  title={Language Mixing in Reasoning Language Models: Patterns, Impact, and Internal Causes},
  author={Wang, Mingyang and Lange, Lukas and Adel, Heike and Ma, Yunpu and Strötgen, Jannik and Schütze, Hinrich},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.14815},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14815}
}