Training approach: Language-specific neuron identification + subnetwork fine-tuning
Parameters trained: <1% of total model parameters
Framework: Language Subnetwork Enhancement

Performance

Enhanced monolingual capabilities in Afrikaans while preserving multilingual performance.

Usage

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("DGurgurov/llama-3.1-8b-afr_latn")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("DGurgurov/llama-3.1-8b-afr_latn")

prompt = "Your Afrikaans prompt here"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_length=100)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))

Citation

bibtex

@misc{gurgurov2025sparsesubnetworkenhancement,
    title={Sparse Subnetwork Enhancement for Underrepresented Languages in Large Language Models}, 
    author={Daniil Gurgurov and Josef van Genabith and Simon Ostermann},
    year={2025},
    eprint={2510.13580},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13580}
}

@misc{gurgurov2025languagearithmeticssystematiclanguage,
      title={Language Arithmetics: Towards Systematic Language Neuron Identification and Manipulation}, 
      author={Daniil Gurgurov and Katharina Trinley and Yusser Al Ghussin and Tanja Baeumel and Josef van Genabith and Simon Ostermann},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.22608},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22608}, 
}