SeaLLM
About
SeaLLMs is a family of large language models that focus on Southeast Asian (SEA) languages, addressing the linguistic bias present in many existing models that lean towards high-resource languages like English. By building on English-centric models and enhancing them with extended vocabulary and alignment tuning, SeaLLMs capture the nuances of SEA languages and respect local cultural norms, customs, and legalities. Notably, SeaLLMs perform exceptionally well across various linguistic tasks and even exceed ChatGPT-3.5's performance in several non-Latin SEA languages. The latest iteration, SeaLLMs-v3, sets itself apart with state-of-the-art capabilities in diverse tasks and improvements in trustworthiness and reduced hallucinations 26911.