3 papers
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…
cs.CL2025
One Tokenizer To Rule Them All: Emergent Language Plasticity via Multilingual Tokenizers
Diana Abagyan, Alejandro R. Salamanca, Andres Felipe Cruz-Salinas +6
Pretraining massively multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) for many languages at once is challenging due to limited model capacity, scarce high-quality data, and compute const…
cs.CL2024
Voices Unheard: NLP Resources and Models for Yorùbá Regional Dialects
Orevaoghene Ahia, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Diana Abagyan +5
Yorùbá an African language with roughly 47 million speakers encompasses a continuum with several dialects. Recent efforts to develop NLP technologies for African languages have f…