2 papers
cs.CL2026
MzansiText and MzansiLM: An Open Corpus and Decoder-Only Language Model for South African Languages
Anri Lombard, Simbarashe Mawere, Temi Aina +5
Decoder-only language models can be adapted to diverse tasks through instruction finetuning, but the extent to which this generalizes at small scale for low-resource languages rema…
cs.CL2025
The Learning Dynamics of Subword Segmentation for Morphologically Diverse Languages
Francois Meyer, Jan Buys
Subword segmentation is typically applied in preprocessing and stays fixed during training. Alternatively, it can be learned during training to optimise the training objective. In…