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Open-source LLMs evaluated for Kinyarwanda text generation

A project exploring open-source large language models for Kinyarwanda text generation compared GPT-2 and a custom-built tiny GPT model. The custom model produced more Kinyarwanda-like text, but GPT-2 generated more fluent English. The project then evaluated several open-weight models, including Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 and Qwen3-1.7B from Alibaba Group, and Llama 3.2-3B-Instruct from Meta, to find a more suitable model for instruction following and Kinyarwanda text generation. AI

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Open-source LLMs evaluated for Kinyarwanda text generation

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    Exploring Other Large Language Models for Improving Kinyarwanda Text Generation

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