UCL's clean multilingual pretraining line (Stenetorp): CuatroLLM/TransWeb-Edu showed a 1.3B model pretrained on 300B machine-translated tokens matches SOTA multilingual models with ~6% of Llama-3.2's data; the follow-up TransWebEdu/TransWebLLM corpus (EMNLP 2025 main) scales the recipe to 1.7T machine-translated tokens across 9 languages — a practical recipe for non-English pretraining.

Model Details

Architecture DENSE
Parameters 1.3B

Paper

Venue EMNLP 2025

Dataset

Size 1.7T tokens
Format machine-translated web/edu corpus
Languages: 9 languages
multilingualtraining-dataresearch