Seemab Latif

Riazi-8B: An Urdu Large Language Model for Mathematical Reasoning

Riazi-8B, an Urdu mathematical reasoning model developed through a two-step adaptation process comprising continued pre-training on Urdu Wikipedia and supervised fine-tuning on Urdu Chain-of-Thought data derived from GSM8K, demonstrates that combining Urdu language adaptation with reasoning-focused fine-tuning is an effective strategy for extending mathematical reasoning capabilities to low-resource languages.