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Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model research paper by Cohere, 2024

Cohere · Agents and evaluation · Feb 12, 2024 · 438 citations · 48 upvotes

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Aya, a multilingual generative language model supporting over 50% lower-resourced languages, excels in both generative and discriminative tasks across 99 languages, and provides extensive evaluations and open-source resources.

By Ahmet Üstün, Viraat Aryabumi, Zheng-Xin Yong and 14 more · arXiv 2402.07827 · PDF

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About this paper
Venue
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Citations
438, 42 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
48 · Hugging Face
Lab
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CitationsNov 9, 2026Citations rose from 434 to 438.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Influential citations rose from 40 to 42.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 417 to 434.
CitationsOct 12, 2026Influential citations rose from 39 to 40.
CitationsOct 12, 2026Citations rose from 410 to 417.
CitationsSep 28, 2026A first count of 39 influential citations.
CitationsSep 28, 2026A first count of 410 citations.
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