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New 10B-token corpus boosts African scholarship in LLM training

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Researchers have introduced Africa-Papers, a new 10.15 billion token corpus designed to address the underrepresentation of African scholarship in large language model training data. This multi-domain dataset, comprising over 844,000 full-text papers, aims to improve the performance of foundation models on topics relevant to Africa, such as tropical epidemiology and agricultural practices. The corpus is processed into clean Markdown, preserving structural elements like equations and tables, and is openly available on the Hugging Face Hub under the AfriSpeech organization to facilitate further research and development. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM capabilities for African contexts, promoting intellectual sovereignty in AI.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic dataset released on arXiv, fitting the research bucket. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New 10B-token corpus boosts African scholarship in LLM training

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mich-Seth Owusu ·

    Africa-Papers: A 10-Billion-Token Multi-Domain Academic Corpus for African Foundation Language Models

    arXiv:2610.28173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) depend fundamentally on the diversity, depth, and factual rigor of their pre-training corpora. However, contemporary foundational pre-training datasets (such as The Pile, S2ORC, and Dolma) exhibit a se…

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