Open Generative Large Language Models for Galician

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Auteurs principaux: Gamallo, Pablo, Rodríguez, Pablo, de-Dios-Flores, Iria, Sotelo, Susana, Paniagua, Silvia, Bardanca, Daniel, Pichel, José Ramom, Garcia, Marcos
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author Gamallo, Pablo
Rodríguez, Pablo
de-Dios-Flores, Iria
Sotelo, Susana
Paniagua, Silvia
Bardanca, Daniel
Pichel, José Ramom
Garcia, Marcos
author_facet Gamallo, Pablo
Rodríguez, Pablo
de-Dios-Flores, Iria
Sotelo, Susana
Paniagua, Silvia
Bardanca, Daniel
Pichel, José Ramom
Garcia, Marcos
contents Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing. Yet, their predominantly English-centric training has led to biases and performance disparities across languages. This imbalance marginalizes minoritized languages, making equitable access to NLP technologies more difficult for languages with lower resources, such as Galician. We present the first two generative LLMs focused on Galician to bridge this gap. These models, freely available as open-source resources, were trained using a GPT architecture with 1.3B parameters on a corpus of 2.1B words. Leveraging continual pretraining, we adapt to Galician two existing LLMs trained on larger corpora, thus mitigating the data constraints that would arise if the training were performed from scratch. The models were evaluated using human judgments and task-based datasets from standardized benchmarks. These evaluations reveal a promising performance, underscoring the importance of linguistic diversity in generative models.
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spellingShingle Open Generative Large Language Models for Galician
Gamallo, Pablo
Rodríguez, Pablo
de-Dios-Flores, Iria
Sotelo, Susana
Paniagua, Silvia
Bardanca, Daniel
Pichel, José Ramom
Garcia, Marcos
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing. Yet, their predominantly English-centric training has led to biases and performance disparities across languages. This imbalance marginalizes minoritized languages, making equitable access to NLP technologies more difficult for languages with lower resources, such as Galician. We present the first two generative LLMs focused on Galician to bridge this gap. These models, freely available as open-source resources, were trained using a GPT architecture with 1.3B parameters on a corpus of 2.1B words. Leveraging continual pretraining, we adapt to Galician two existing LLMs trained on larger corpora, thus mitigating the data constraints that would arise if the training were performed from scratch. The models were evaluated using human judgments and task-based datasets from standardized benchmarks. These evaluations reveal a promising performance, underscoring the importance of linguistic diversity in generative models.
title Open Generative Large Language Models for Galician
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13893