Tiny Aya Expedition Drives Multilingual Innovation | Cohere

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This post details the outcomes of the 'Expedition Tiny Aya' program, highlighting projects that leveraged the Tiny Aya model for multilingual innovation. Key technical contributions include: a multilingual math benchmark dataset, a child-safe AI voice assistant with a multilingual benchmark for child-focused AI, investigations into multilingual safety behavior under code-mixed prompts and cross-lingual misalignment, research into cultural context robustness in multilingual AI, a synthetic data generation pipeline for speech-to-speech translation in under-resourced languages, a multilingual retrieval and question-answering system for document understanding with on-device privacy, a parameter-efficient approach to connect visual encoders to Tiny Aya for accessible multilingual vision-language systems, and a system for on-device multilingual tool use via JSON tool calls with 4-bit quantized model variants.