Sherkala-Chat: Building a State-of-the-Art LLM for Kazakh in a Moderately Resourced Setting

Fajri Koto, Rituraj Joshi, Nurdaulet Mukhituly +31

Llama-3.1-Sherkala-8B-Chat, or Sherkala-Chat (8B) for short, is a state-of-the-art instruction-tuned open generative large language model (LLM) designed for Kazakh. Sherkala-Chat (…