Tiny Aya: Bridging Scale and Multilingual Depth

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Autores principales: Salamanca, Alejandro R., Abagyan, Diana, D'souza, Daniel, Khairi, Ammar, Mora, David, Dash, Saurabh, Aryabumi, Viraat, Rajaee, Sara, Mofakhami, Mehrnaz, Sahu, Ananya, Euyang, Thomas, Prince, Brittawnya, Smith, Madeline, Lin, Hangyu, Locatelli, Acyr, Hooker, Sara, Kocmi, Tom, Gomez, Aidan, Zhang, Ivan, Blunsom, Phil, Frosst, Nick, Pineau, Joelle, Ermis, Beyza, Üstün, Ahmet, Kreutzer, Julia, Fadaee, Marzieh
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Publicado: 2026
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author Salamanca, Alejandro R.
Abagyan, Diana
D'souza, Daniel
Khairi, Ammar
Mora, David
Dash, Saurabh
Aryabumi, Viraat
Rajaee, Sara
Mofakhami, Mehrnaz
Sahu, Ananya
Euyang, Thomas
Prince, Brittawnya
Smith, Madeline
Lin, Hangyu
Locatelli, Acyr
Hooker, Sara
Kocmi, Tom
Gomez, Aidan
Zhang, Ivan
Blunsom, Phil
Frosst, Nick
Pineau, Joelle
Ermis, Beyza
Üstün, Ahmet
Kreutzer, Julia
Fadaee, Marzieh
author_facet Salamanca, Alejandro R.
Abagyan, Diana
D'souza, Daniel
Khairi, Ammar
Mora, David
Dash, Saurabh
Aryabumi, Viraat
Rajaee, Sara
Mofakhami, Mehrnaz
Sahu, Ananya
Euyang, Thomas
Prince, Brittawnya
Smith, Madeline
Lin, Hangyu
Locatelli, Acyr
Hooker, Sara
Kocmi, Tom
Gomez, Aidan
Zhang, Ivan
Blunsom, Phil
Frosst, Nick
Pineau, Joelle
Ermis, Beyza
Üstün, Ahmet
Kreutzer, Julia
Fadaee, Marzieh
contents Tiny Aya redefines what a small multilingual language model can achieve. Trained on 70 languages and refined through region-aware posttraining, it delivers state-of-the-art in translation quality, strong multilingual understanding, and high-quality target-language generation, all with just 3.35B parameters. The release includes a pretrained foundation model, a globally balanced instruction-tuned variant, and three region-specialized models targeting languages from Africa, South Asia, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and West Asia. This report details the training strategy, data composition, and comprehensive evaluation framework behind Tiny Aya, and presents an alternative scaling path for multilingual AI: one centered on efficiency, balanced performance across languages, and practical deployment.
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spellingShingle Tiny Aya: Bridging Scale and Multilingual Depth
Salamanca, Alejandro R.
Abagyan, Diana
D'souza, Daniel
Khairi, Ammar
Mora, David
Dash, Saurabh
Aryabumi, Viraat
Rajaee, Sara
Mofakhami, Mehrnaz
Sahu, Ananya
Euyang, Thomas
Prince, Brittawnya
Smith, Madeline
Lin, Hangyu
Locatelli, Acyr
Hooker, Sara
Kocmi, Tom
Gomez, Aidan
Zhang, Ivan
Blunsom, Phil
Frosst, Nick
Pineau, Joelle
Ermis, Beyza
Üstün, Ahmet
Kreutzer, Julia
Fadaee, Marzieh
Computation and Language
Tiny Aya redefines what a small multilingual language model can achieve. Trained on 70 languages and refined through region-aware posttraining, it delivers state-of-the-art in translation quality, strong multilingual understanding, and high-quality target-language generation, all with just 3.35B parameters. The release includes a pretrained foundation model, a globally balanced instruction-tuned variant, and three region-specialized models targeting languages from Africa, South Asia, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and West Asia. This report details the training strategy, data composition, and comprehensive evaluation framework behind Tiny Aya, and presents an alternative scaling path for multilingual AI: one centered on efficiency, balanced performance across languages, and practical deployment.
title Tiny Aya: Bridging Scale and Multilingual Depth
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11510