Ananya Sahu

It is shown the path to generalizing L2 reasoning to held-out languages goes through broader language coverage, readily available multilingual non-reasoning data, and a sufficient English reasoning backbone, indicating that reasoning is a language-agnostic behavior that can be transferred across typologically diverse languages through careful data mixing.

Forget brute-force scaling: Tiny Aya proves a 3B parameter model can achieve state-of-the-art multilingual performance with clever training and region-aware specialization.