LLaMA3 (8B) model instruction finetuned to understand and respond in Sinhala language. meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct is finetuned on a reletively large dataset in
Sinhala compiled by translating English datasets such as ELI5 and Alpaca. The dataset in hosted in Hugging Face Datasets hub (sinhala-instruction-finetune-large)
The original model is 4-bit quantized and finetuned with a causal language modelling (CLM) objective by adding LoRA adapters with a rank of 16 and a scaling factor of 32.
The finetuned llama3-sinhala model generates better responses in Sinhala compared to the original instruction finetuned model released by Meta. The model is available in Hugging Face (llama3-sinhala).