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author Dang, John
Singh, Shivalika
D'souza, Daniel
Ahmadian, Arash
Salamanca, Alejandro
Smith, Madeline
Peppin, Aidan
Hong, Sungjin
Govindassamy, Manoj
Zhao, Terrence
Kublik, Sandra
Amer, Meor
Aryabumi, Viraat
Campos, Jon Ander
Tan, Yi-Chern
Kocmi, Tom
Strub, Florian
Grinsztajn, Nathan
Flet-Berliac, Yannis
Locatelli, Acyr
Lin, Hangyu
Talupuru, Dwarak
Venkitesh, Bharat
Cairuz, David
Yang, Bowen
Chung, Tim
Ko, Wei-Yin
Shi, Sylvie Shang
Shukayev, Amir
Bae, Sammie
Piktus, Aleksandra
Castagné, Roman
Cruz-Salinas, Felipe
Kim, Eddie
Crawhall-Stein, Lucas
Morisot, Adrien
Roy, Sudip
Blunsom, Phil
Zhang, Ivan
Gomez, Aidan
Frosst, Nick
Fadaee, Marzieh
Ermis, Beyza
Üstün, Ahmet
Hooker, Sara
author_facet Dang, John
Singh, Shivalika
D'souza, Daniel
Ahmadian, Arash
Salamanca, Alejandro
Smith, Madeline
Peppin, Aidan
Hong, Sungjin
Govindassamy, Manoj
Zhao, Terrence
Kublik, Sandra
Amer, Meor
Aryabumi, Viraat
Campos, Jon Ander
Tan, Yi-Chern
Kocmi, Tom
Strub, Florian
Grinsztajn, Nathan
Flet-Berliac, Yannis
Locatelli, Acyr
Lin, Hangyu
Talupuru, Dwarak
Venkitesh, Bharat
Cairuz, David
Yang, Bowen
Chung, Tim
Ko, Wei-Yin
Shi, Sylvie Shang
Shukayev, Amir
Bae, Sammie
Piktus, Aleksandra
Castagné, Roman
Cruz-Salinas, Felipe
Kim, Eddie
Crawhall-Stein, Lucas
Morisot, Adrien
Roy, Sudip
Blunsom, Phil
Zhang, Ivan
Gomez, Aidan
Frosst, Nick
Fadaee, Marzieh
Ermis, Beyza
Üstün, Ahmet
Hooker, Sara
contents We introduce the Aya Expanse model family, a new generation of 8B and 32B parameter multilingual language models, aiming to address the critical challenge of developing highly performant multilingual models that match or surpass the capabilities of monolingual models. By leveraging several years of research at Cohere For AI and Cohere, including advancements in data arbitrage, multilingual preference training, and model merging, Aya Expanse sets a new state-of-the-art in multilingual performance. Our evaluations on the Arena-Hard-Auto dataset, translated into 23 languages, demonstrate that Aya Expanse 8B and 32B outperform leading open-weight models in their respective parameter classes, including Gemma 2, Qwen 2.5, and Llama 3.1, achieving up to a 76.6% win-rate. Notably, Aya Expanse 32B outperforms Llama 3.1 70B, a model with twice as many parameters, achieving a 54.0% win-rate. In this short technical report, we present extended evaluation results for the Aya Expanse model family and release their open-weights, together with a new multilingual evaluation dataset m-ArenaHard.
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spellingShingle Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier
Dang, John
Singh, Shivalika
D'souza, Daniel
Ahmadian, Arash
Salamanca, Alejandro
Smith, Madeline
Peppin, Aidan
Hong, Sungjin
Govindassamy, Manoj
Zhao, Terrence
Kublik, Sandra
Amer, Meor
Aryabumi, Viraat
Campos, Jon Ander
Tan, Yi-Chern
Kocmi, Tom
Strub, Florian
Grinsztajn, Nathan
Flet-Berliac, Yannis
Locatelli, Acyr
Lin, Hangyu
Talupuru, Dwarak
Venkitesh, Bharat
Cairuz, David
Yang, Bowen
Chung, Tim
Ko, Wei-Yin
Shi, Sylvie Shang
Shukayev, Amir
Bae, Sammie
Piktus, Aleksandra
Castagné, Roman
Cruz-Salinas, Felipe
Kim, Eddie
Crawhall-Stein, Lucas
Morisot, Adrien
Roy, Sudip
Blunsom, Phil
Zhang, Ivan
Gomez, Aidan
Frosst, Nick
Fadaee, Marzieh
Ermis, Beyza
Üstün, Ahmet
Hooker, Sara
Computation and Language
We introduce the Aya Expanse model family, a new generation of 8B and 32B parameter multilingual language models, aiming to address the critical challenge of developing highly performant multilingual models that match or surpass the capabilities of monolingual models. By leveraging several years of research at Cohere For AI and Cohere, including advancements in data arbitrage, multilingual preference training, and model merging, Aya Expanse sets a new state-of-the-art in multilingual performance. Our evaluations on the Arena-Hard-Auto dataset, translated into 23 languages, demonstrate that Aya Expanse 8B and 32B outperform leading open-weight models in their respective parameter classes, including Gemma 2, Qwen 2.5, and Llama 3.1, achieving up to a 76.6% win-rate. Notably, Aya Expanse 32B outperforms Llama 3.1 70B, a model with twice as many parameters, achieving a 54.0% win-rate. In this short technical report, we present extended evaluation results for the Aya Expanse model family and release their open-weights, together with a new multilingual evaluation dataset m-ArenaHard.
title Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04261