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cs.CL2026
Building Multilingual Bridges: Data Mixing as the Pillar of Generalization for In-Language Reasoning
Mehrnaz Mofakhami, Ananya Sahu, Alejandro R. Salamanca +5
Reasoning language models have made substantial advances on a variety of complex tasks, yet their capabilities remain overwhelmingly English-centric: models primarily reason in Eng…
cs.CL2026
The Culture Funnel: You Can't Align What isn't in the Data
Ananya Sahu, Mehrnaz Mofakhami, Daniel D'Souza +3
Current cultural alignment approaches focus on inference-time interventions, assuming models already contain sufficient cultural knowledge. We argue modern LLM pipelines suffer fro…
cs.CL2026
Tiny Aya: Bridging Scale and Multilingual Depth
Alejandro R. Salamanca, Diana Abagyan, Daniel D'souza +23
Tiny Aya redefines what a small multilingual language model can achieve. Trained on 70 languages and refined through region-aware posttraining, it delivers state-of-the-art in tran…