Aya Expanse 8B is an open-weight research release of a model with highly advanced multilingual capabilities. It focuses on pairing a highly performant pre-trained Command family of models with the result of a year’s dedicated research from Cohere For AI, including data arbitrage, multilingual preference training, safety tuning, and model merging. The result is a powerful multilingual large language model.

This model card corresponds to the 8-billion version of the Aya Expanse model. We also released an 32-billion version which you can find here.

Developed by: Cohere For AI
Point of Contact: Cohere For AI: cohere.for.ai
License: CC-BY-NC, requires also adhering to C4AI's Acceptable Use Policy
Model: Aya Expanse 8B
Model Size: 8 billion parameters

Supported Languages

We cover 23 languages: Arabic, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Try it: Aya Expanse in Action

Use the Cohere playground or our Hugging Face Space for interactive exploration.

How to Use Aya Expanse

Install the transformers library and load Aya Expanse 8B as follows:

python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

model_id = "CohereForAI/aya-expanse-8b"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Format the message with the chat template
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Anneme onu ne kadar sevdiğimi anlatan bir mektup yaz"}]
input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt")
## <BOS_TOKEN><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|USER_TOKEN|>Anneme onu ne kadar sevdiğimi anlatan bir mektup yaz<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>

gen_tokens = model.generate(
    input_ids, 
    max_new_tokens=100, 
    do_sample=True, 
    temperature=0.3,
    )

gen_text = tokenizer.decode(gen_tokens[0])
print(gen_text)

Example Notebooks

Fine-Tuning:

Detailed Fine-Tuning Notebook.

Community-Contributed Use Cases::

The following notebooks contributed by Cohere For AI Community members show how Aya Expanse can be used for different use cases:

Model Details

Input: Models input text only.

Output: Models generate text only.

Model Architecture: Aya Expanse 8B is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. Post-training includes supervised finetuning, preference training, and model merging.

Languages covered: The model is particularly optimized for multilinguality and supports the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese

Context length: 8K

For more details about how the model was trained, check out our blogpost.

Evaluation

We evaluated Aya Expanse 8B against Gemma 2 9B, Llama 3.1 8B, Ministral 8B, and Qwen 2.5 7B using Dolly and m-ArenaHard, a dataset based on the Arena-Hard-Auto dataset and translated to the 23 languages we support in Aya Expanse 8B. Win-rates were determined using gpt-4o-2024-08-06 as a judge. For a conservative benchmark, we report results from gpt-4o-2024-08-06, though gpt-4o-mini scores showed even stronger performance.

The m-ArenaHard dataset, used to evaluate Aya Expanse’s capabilities, is publicly available here.

Model Card Contact

For errors or additional questions about details in this model card, contact info@for.ai.

Terms of Use

We hope that the release of this model will make community-based research efforts more accessible, by releasing the weights of a highly performant multilingual model to researchers all over the world. This model is governed by a CC-BY-NC License with an acceptable use addendum, and also requires adhering to C4AI's Acceptable Use Policy.

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Original model description:

Model Card for Aya Expanse 8B Ungated