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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

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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
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CitationsNov 9, 2026Influential citations rose from 22 to 23.
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