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Multi-SFT: Permissively-Licensed Multilingual Instruction-Following

Multi‑SFT is a new, commercially permissive dataset comprising 502,818 instruction‑response pairs in five European languages, created through translation and regeneration pipelines to address gaps where simple translation is insufficient. Human evaluation shows strong inter‑annotator agreement (≥0.87) across all languages. Fine‑tuning nine models from three families on Multi‑SFT yields performance competitive with larger, proprietary mixes and official instruction‑tuned releases, especially on safety‑related benchmarks.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

MultiSynt/MT: Trillion-Token Multi-Parallel Pre-Training Data Translated Across 36 Languages

arXiv:2607.00890v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open web-scale pre-training corpora remain concentrated in English, limiting multilingual LLM development. We introduce MultiSynt/MT, an open synth...

By Maximilian Idahl, J\"org Tiedemann, Sampo Pyysalo, David Salinas, Tomasz Galica, Shenbin Qian, Tudor Nicolae Mateiu, Zihao Li, Anna Lokrantz, Fedor Vitiugin, Andr\'e F. T. Martins, Jenna Kanerva, Filip Ginter, Matthias Lindemann, Tim Isbister, Birger Moell, Jonas Lindh, Jan Haji\v{c}, Jenia Jitsev, Andrey Kutuzov, Stephan Oepen, Gema Ram\'irez-S\'anchez
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

LuxIT: A Luxembourgish Instruction Tuning Dataset from Monolingual Seed Data

LuxIT is a monolingual instruction‑tuning dataset for Luxembourgish, created by synthesizing instruction‑answer pairs from native texts using the DeepSeek‑R1‑0528 model and a quality‑assurance LLM‑as‑judge process. The resulting 227,507 high‑quality pairs were used to fine‑tune 14 LLMs (≤15 B parameters), yielding an average accuracy increase of +5.37 percentage points on standardized Luxembourgish proficiency exams and improvements in macro‑averaged F1 on nine of the fourteen downstream NLP tasks. These findings demonstrate that synthetic monolingual data can effectively enhance LLM performance in low‑resource languages and reveal the complex relationship between exam performance and practical NLP gains.

By Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Siwen Guo, Jordi Cabot
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

EuroAlpaca: Task-Preserving Localisation of Instruction Data for European Languages

EuroAlpaca presents a task‑preserving localisation pipeline that translates English instruction‑tuning data into 50 European languages while maintaining task‑critical constraints. The method uses field‑wise machine translation or reconstructs task‑equivalent target‑language instances, followed by validation of coherence and consistency. Experiments show that EuroAlpaca improves instruction‑following accuracy by 12.9% over a baseline and outperforms direct translation on ROUGE‑L and F‑BERT metrics.

By Aleix Sant, Jordi Luque, Carlos Escolano
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

M-GATE: Multilingual Grammar, Accuracy in Translation, and Efficiency Benchmark for Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 03803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual language models are deployed across a hundred or more languages, yet most benchmarks test whether a model can perform a task _in_ a language rather than whether it commands the language itself, conflating fluency with proficiency.

By Tom\'a\v{s} Burkert, Angelika Peljak-{\L}api\'nska, David Zelen\'y
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Task-Preserving Multilingual Instruction Tuning for Open-Ended QA in WMT 2026 MIST

The paper reports a submission to the WMT 2026 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task, where the authors fine‑tune Qwen3‑8B with LoRA on organiser‑provided data, EuroAlpaca, and CrossEuroAlpaca. Their system focuses on open‑ended question answering in ten target languages and shows a 7.8 % relative gain in Gemma‑4 judge score for target‑language QA‑OEG, as well as 41.5 % macro‑averaged ROUGE‑L and 2.9 % BERTScore‑F1 improvements on the Aya Evaluation Suite. However, the gains are task‑ and language‑specific, with some declines in context‑grounded QA and non‑target languages.

By Aleix Sant, Jordi Luque, Carlos Escolano