From Global Benchmarks to Local Evaluations: Benchmarking LLMs for the German Public Sector
Public institutions face a persistent challenge in selecting LLMs suited to their specific context. Existing benchmarks, however, are of limited use as they primarily reflect English-language and US-centric settings, and often only evaluate task performance. In this paper, we present first results of MÖVE, a holistic evaluation framework for the German public sector, examining three rarely considered governance dimensions: energy consumption, provider transparency, and knowledge of German-party positions. Our results reveal significant trade-offs, with no single model excelling across all dimensions: estimated energy consumption varies more than 60-fold and is not explained by model size ...
| Authors | Camilla Dalerci, Thilo Michael, Robin Schaefer et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 18 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 18 August 2026 |
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