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Main Authors: Zolkepli, Husein, Razak, Aisyah, Adha, Kamarul, Nazhan, Ariff
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14680
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author Zolkepli, Husein
Razak, Aisyah
Adha, Kamarul
Nazhan, Ariff
author_facet Zolkepli, Husein
Razak, Aisyah
Adha, Kamarul
Nazhan, Ariff
contents Addressing the gap in Large Language Model pretrained from scratch with Malaysian context, We trained models with 1.1 billion, 3 billion, and 5 billion parameters on a substantial 349GB dataset, equivalent to 90 billion tokens based on our pretrained Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenizer for a single epoch. MaLLaM contributes to enhanced natural language understanding and generation tasks in the Malay language. Although trained on a smaller dataset of 90 billion tokens, our instruction-tuned MaLLaM models perform competitively. When compared to ChatGPT3.5 and Malaysian Mistral, MaLLaM's instruction-tuned models demonstrate notable proficiency, underscoring the effectiveness of our approach in capturing and understanding the nuances of the Malaysian language. MaLLaM models mark a significant contribution to the field, providing comprehensive language representations grounded in Malaysian context. This endeavor aims to pave the way for enhanced natural language understanding and generation tasks specific to the linguistic nuances present in Malaysia. We discuss the training methodology, dataset composition, and the potential impact of MaLLaM in advancing the capabilities of large language models within the context of the Malay language. All models released at https://huggingface.co/collections/mesolitica/mallam-6577b59d1e0b436ae75f930f
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spellingShingle MaLLaM -- Malaysia Large Language Model
Zolkepli, Husein
Razak, Aisyah
Adha, Kamarul
Nazhan, Ariff
Computation and Language
Addressing the gap in Large Language Model pretrained from scratch with Malaysian context, We trained models with 1.1 billion, 3 billion, and 5 billion parameters on a substantial 349GB dataset, equivalent to 90 billion tokens based on our pretrained Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenizer for a single epoch. MaLLaM contributes to enhanced natural language understanding and generation tasks in the Malay language. Although trained on a smaller dataset of 90 billion tokens, our instruction-tuned MaLLaM models perform competitively. When compared to ChatGPT3.5 and Malaysian Mistral, MaLLaM's instruction-tuned models demonstrate notable proficiency, underscoring the effectiveness of our approach in capturing and understanding the nuances of the Malaysian language. MaLLaM models mark a significant contribution to the field, providing comprehensive language representations grounded in Malaysian context. This endeavor aims to pave the way for enhanced natural language understanding and generation tasks specific to the linguistic nuances present in Malaysia. We discuss the training methodology, dataset composition, and the potential impact of MaLLaM in advancing the capabilities of large language models within the context of the Malay language. All models released at https://huggingface.co/collections/mesolitica/mallam-6577b59d1e0b436ae75f930f
title MaLLaM -- Malaysia Large Language Model
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14680