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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…