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cs.CL2025

Aligning Large Language Models to Low-Resource Languages through LLM-Based Selective Translation: A Systematic Study

Rakesh Paul, Anusha Kamath, Kanishk Singla +4

Multilingual large language models (LLMs) often demonstrate a performance gap between English and non-English languages, particularly in low-resource settings. Aligning these model…

cs.CL2025

CultureGuard: Towards Culturally-Aware Dataset and Guard Model for Multilingual Safety Applications

Raviraj Joshi, Rakesh Paul, Kanishk Singla +8

The increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in agentic applications highlights the need for robust safety guard models. While content safety in English is well-studied, non-…

cs.CL2025

Benchmarking Hindi LLMs: A New Suite of Datasets and a Comparative Analysis

Anusha Kamath, Kanishk Singla, Rakesh Paul +4

Evaluating instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) in Hindi is challenging due to a lack of high-quality benchmarks, as direct translation of English datasets fails to captu…

cs.CL2025

Adapting Multilingual LLMs to Low-Resource Languages using Continued Pre-training and Synthetic Corpus

Raviraj Joshi, Kanishk Singla, Anusha Kamath +6

Multilingual LLMs support a variety of languages; however, their performance is suboptimal for low-resource languages. In this work, we emphasize the importance of continued pre-tr…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Initialization Loss: A Systematic Study of Token Embedding Initialization Strategies for LLM Vocabulary Extension

Raviraj Joshi, Utkarsh Vaidya, Sanjay Singh Chauhan +1

Vocabulary extension is an efficient way to adapt pretrained large language models (LLMs) to new languages, but the initialization of newly added token embeddings can strongly affe…

cs.AI2026

FiMI: A Domain-Specific Language Model for Indian Finance Ecosystem

Aboli Kathar, Aman Kumar, Anusha Kamath +37

We present FiMI (Finance Model for India), a domain-specialized financial language model developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for Indian digital payment syste…