SinLlama -- A Large Language Model for Sinhala

arXiv:2508.09115 · cs.CL · Submitted 2025-08-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-08-12

Updated: 2026-08-31

DOI: 10.1109/MERCon67903.2025.11217094

Code: https://github.com/openai/tiktoken

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 15× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• In-Context Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Natural Language Processing — 3× in this paper
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LoRA Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology
• Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research
• BERTifying Sinhala -- A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification
• MaLA-500: Massive Language Adaptation of Large Language Models
• Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
• GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding
• Mistral 7B
• MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI
• LlamaTurk: Adapting Open-Source Generative Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language
• TaCo: Enhancing Cross-Lingual Transfer for Low-Resource Languages in LLMs through Translation-Assisted Chain-of-Thought Processes
• Adaptive Machine Translation with Large Language Models
• Zero-shot Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource Languages Using a Multilingual Sentiment Lexicon
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• PolyLM: An Open Source Polyglot Large Language Model
• The Falcon Series of Open Language Models
• Crosslingual Generalization through Multitask Finetuning
• Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
• OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
• BigTranslate: Augmenting Large Language Models with Multilingual Translation Capability over 100 Languages

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