Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning research paper by Cohere, 2024
Cohere · Retrieval and data · Feb 9, 2024 · 253 citations · 57 upvotes
What it shows
The initiative builds a human-curated instruction-following dataset spanning 65 languages and creates the largest multilingual collection of instruction-following instances through templating and translating existing datasets across 114 languages, contributing datasets and platforms for participatory research.
By Shivalika Singh, Freddie Vargus, Daniel Dsouza and 30 more · arXiv 2402.06619 · PDF
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About this paper
- Venue
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Citations
- 253, 23 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 57 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- Cohere · on Companies · on Acquisitions · on Releases
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