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most citedAya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

9 citations · 23 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

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.AI2025

The Multilingual Divide and Its Impact on Global AI Safety

Aidan Peppin, Julia Kreutzer, Alice Schoenauer Sebag +13

Despite advances in large language model capabilities in recent years, a large gap remains in their capabilities and safety performance for many languages beyond a relatively small…

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.AI2025

The Leaderboard Illusion

Shivalika Singh, Yiyang Nan, Alex Wang +10

Measuring progress is fundamental to the advancement of any scientific field. As benchmarks play an increasingly central role, they also grow more susceptible to distortion. Chatbo…

cs.CL2025

Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation

Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Bin Islam +42

The evaluation of vision-language models (VLMs) has mainly relied on English-language benchmarks, leaving significant gaps in both multilingual and multicultural coverage. While mu…

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★ 6 cited

Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation

Shivalika Singh, Angelika Romanou, Clémentine Fourrier +21

Cultural biases in multilingual datasets pose significant challenges for their effectiveness as global benchmarks. These biases stem not only from differences in language but also…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge

Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova +56

The performance differential of large language models (LLM) between languages hinders their effective deployment in many regions, inhibiting the potential economic and societal val…

cs.CL2024★ 9 cited

Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

Ahmet Üstün, Viraat Aryabumi, Zheng-Xin Yong +14

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have centered around a handful of data-rich languages. What does it take to broaden access to breakthroughs beyond first-class…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning

Shivalika Singh, Freddie Vargus, Daniel Dsouza +30

Datasets are foundational to many breakthroughs in modern artificial intelligence. Many recent achievements in the space of natural language processing (NLP) can be attributed to t…