4 papers
Massively Multilingual Adaptation of Large Language Models Using Bilingual Translation Data
Shaoxiong Ji, Zihao Li, Jaakko Paavola +2
This paper investigates a critical design decision in the practice of massively multilingual continual pre-training -- the inclusion of parallel data. Specifically, we study the im…
GlotEval: A Test Suite for Massively Multilingual Evaluation of Large Language Models
Hengyu Luo, Zihao Li, Joseph Attieh +12
Large language models (LLMs) are advancing at an unprecedented pace globally, with regions increasingly adopting these models for applications in their primary language. Evaluation…
Rethinking Multilingual Continual Pretraining: Data Mixing for Adapting LLMs Across Languages and Resources
Zihao Li, Shaoxiong Ji, Hengyu Luo +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit significant disparities in performance across languages, primarily benefiting high-resource languages while marginalizing underrepresented ones…
EMMA-500: Enhancing Massively Multilingual Adaptation of Large Language Models
Shaoxiong Ji, Zihao Li, Jaakko Paavola +7
In this work, we introduce EMMA-500, a large-scale multilingual language model continue-trained on texts across 546 languages designed for enhanced multilingual performance, focusi…