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cs.CL2026

LKValues: Aligning Large Language Models with Sri Lankan Societal Values

Nethmi Muthugala, Supryadi, Surangika Ranathunga +7

Value alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been shown to be culturally biased toward Western norms. This results in the mishandling of local values in multilingual societi…

cs.CL2026

Soft-SVeRL: Self-Verified Reinforcement Learning with Soft Rewards

Saurabh Dash, Pierre Clavier, John Dang +4

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has improved language models in domains such as mathematics and code, where correctness can be checked automatically. However,…

cs.CL2025

Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality

Saurabh Dash, Yiyang Nan, John Dang +22

Building multimodal language models is fundamentally challenging: it requires aligning vision and language modalities, curating high-quality instruction data, and avoiding the degr…

cs.CL2025

Command A: An Enterprise-Ready Large Language Model

Team Cohere, :, Aakanksha +227

In this report we describe the development of Command A, a powerful large language model purpose-built to excel at real-world enterprise use cases. Command A is an agent-optimised…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Multilingual Machine Translation with Open Large Language Models at Practical Scale: An Empirical Study

Menglong Cui, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu +2

Large language models (LLMs) have shown continuously improving multilingual capabilities, and even small-scale open-source models have demonstrated rapid performance enhancement. I…

cs.CL2024

Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier

John Dang, Shivalika Singh, Daniel D'souza +42

We introduce the Aya Expanse model family, a new generation of 8B and 32B parameter multilingual language models, aiming to address the critical challenge of developing highly perf…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

RLHF Can Speak Many Languages: Unlocking Multilingual Preference Optimization for LLMs

John Dang, Arash Ahmadian, Kelly Marchisio +3

Preference optimization techniques have become a standard final stage for training state-of-art large language models (LLMs). However, despite widespread adoption, the vast majorit…

cs.CL2024★ 9 cited

Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress

Viraat Aryabumi, John Dang, Dwarak Talupuru +18

This technical report introduces Aya 23, a family of multilingual language models. Aya 23 builds on the recent release of the Aya model (Üstün et al., 2024), focusing on pairing a…