AI Struggles with Indian Culture: New Method Boosts Understanding by 20%
📄 VIRAASAT: Traversing Novel Paths for Indian Cultural Reasoning
Researchers discovered that even advanced AI models perform poorly when asked complex questions about Indian culture, history, and traditions. They created VIRAASAT, a dataset of over 3,200 challenging cultural questions spanning all Indian states, and developed a new training method called Symbolic Chain-of-Manipulation (SCoM) that teaches AI to think step-by-step through cultural knowledge like navigating a map. This approach improved AI performance by up to 20% compared to standard methods, helping models better understand and reason about diverse cultural contexts.