Multilingual Instruction Following Across 140 Languages

via “multilingual text generation across 9 languages”

text-generation model by undefined. 94,68,562 downloads.

Unique: Unified multilingual model trained on instruction data across 9 languages with shared embeddings, avoiding the 9x model deployment overhead of language-specific variants; uses single 128K vocabulary for all languages vs. separate tokenizers per language in alternatives

vs others: Covers more languages than Mistral-7B (English-only) and matches Llama-2's multilingual scope but with superior instruction-following quality; lighter than deploying separate models for each language like traditional MT systems