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New LLMs Developed for Moroccan Arabic and Arabizi Dialects

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A developer has fine-tuned two open-source large language models, SILMA-9B-Darija and SILMA-2B-Darija, to better understand and generate Moroccan Arabic (Darija) and its informal Arabizi script. These models were trained on a custom dataset of over 46,000 Moroccan conversations and instructions, outperforming existing models like Gemma-2 and Llama-3.1 on benchmarks covering local vocabulary, history, and proverbs. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM capabilities for underrepresented linguistic dialects, potentially improving accessibility and usability for specific user groups.

RANK_REASON Developer fine-tunes open-source models for a specific linguistic dialect, releasing them and the training data. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New LLMs Developed for Moroccan Arabic and Arabizi Dialects

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 Română(RO) · Abdelrhafar Naouri ·

    Building SILMA-Darija: Open LLMs for Moroccan Arabic & Arabizi

    <p>🇲🇦 Building SILMA-Darija: Open LLMs for Moroccan Arabic &amp; Arabizi</p> <p>Most Arabic models struggle with Moroccan Darija. When you talk to them in Darija, they usually switch back to Gulf Arabic or formal Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and they almost always break when peo…

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