| Challenge: | linguistic disparity is particularly evident for Bangla, the 5th most spoken language . open-source Bangla LLMs have limited reproducibility and performance gaps . |
| Approach: | They propose a family of Bangla LLMs that outperform open-source alternatives and benchmarks and establish a new benchmark for future Bangla language modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform existing models and outperformed proprietary models across six benchmarks. |
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