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Model Description
Table with columns: Property, Value| Property | Value |
|---|
| Base Model | BSC-LT/salamandra-7b |
| Architecture | Transformer decoder-only |
| Parameters | ~7.77B |
| Languages | Valencian, Spanish, English |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
Aitana-7B-S-base extends the multilingual Salamandra foundation with additional training on domain-specific Valencian, Spanish, and English data. The training emphasizes administrative, legal, and tourism domains.
Training Data
This model was trained on the following ALIA datasets:
Data Sources
- DOGV (Diari Oficial de la Generalitat Valenciana): Official communications of the Valencian Community including laws and public sector communications
- Les Corts Valencianes: Transcripts from the Valencian Parliament plenary sessions and committee meetings
- AMIC: Valencian language corpus
- BOUA (Butlletí Oficial de la Universitat d'Alacant): Official University of Alicante documents including grants, regulations, and resolutions
- Tourism: Multilingual tourism domain content
Intended Uses
This model can be used for:
- Text generation in Valencian, Spanish, and English
- Fine-tuning for specific downstream tasks
- Domain adaptation for administrative, legal, or tourism applications
Note: Due to the formal register of training data (administrative and legal domains), generated text tends toward formal language.
How to Use
import torch
from transformers import pipeline, AutoTokenizer
model_id = "gplsi/Aitana-7B-S-base"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
generator = pipeline(
"text-generation",
model=model_id,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
)
text = "Les corts valencianes han pres la decisió de"
result = generator(text, do_sample=True, top_k=10, max_new_tokens=100)
print(result[0]['generated_text'])
text = "El turismo en la Comunidad Valenciana"
result = generator(text, do_sample=True, top_k=10, max_new_tokens=100)
print(result[0]['generated_text'])
Evaluation
In the following table, we can see the results obtained with different benchmarks from lm-evaluation-harness in comparison with the model used for continuous pre-training.
The results have been obtained from the model pre-trained; no instruction tuning or fine-tuning of any kind has been performed.
Normalized score per language
Table with columns: Language, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Language | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Spanish | 0.248 | 0.26 |
| Catalan | 0.364 | 0.373 |
| English | 0.319 | 0.349 |
| Valencian | 0.663 | 0.664 |
Valencian
Classification Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| XNLI | va | Natural Language Inference | acc | 0.496 | 0.495 |
Generation Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Cocoteros | va | Reading Comprehension | bleu | 12.30 | 16.09 |
| Phrases ca-va | va-ca | Translation - Adaptation | bleu | 86.83 | 86.53 |
| Phrases va-ca | va-ca |
Catalan
Classification Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Belebele Cat_latn | ca | Reading Comprehension | acc | 0.51 | 0.546 |
| COPA | ca | Commonsense Reasoning | acc | 0.798 | 0.812 |
| XStoryCloze | ca |
Generation Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Cabreu abstractive | ca | Summarization | bleu | 8.46 | 11.34 |
| Cabreu extractive | ca | Summarization | bleu | 44.62 | 41.73 |
| Cabreu extreme | ca |
Spanish
Classification Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Belebele | es | Reading Comprehension | acc | 0.49 | 0.55 |
| PAWS | es | Paraphrasing | acc | 0.616 | 0.591 |
| XNLI | es |
Generation Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Cocoteros | es | Reading Comprehension | bleu | 14.57 | 17.35 |
| XLSum | es | Summarization | bleu | 3.52 | 5.79 |
English
Classification Benchmarks
Table with columns: Dataset, Lang., Task, Metric, Salamandra-7B, Aitana-7B-S-base| Dataset | Lang. | Task | Metric | Salamandra-7B | Aitana-7B-S-base |
|---|
| Arc Challenge | en | Question Answering | acc | 0.53 | 0.529 |
| Arc Easy | en | Question Answering | acc | 0.822 | 0.816 |
| Belebele | en |
Author
The model has been developed by the Language and Information Systems Group (GPLSI), the Centro de Inteligencia Digital (CENID), and the [Language Modeling Group at Barcelona Supercomputing Center] (https://www.bsc.es/research-development/research-areas/cognitive-computing/language-modeling), all contributing to cutting-edge research in Natural Language Processing (NLP). GPLSI and CENID are part of the University of Alicante (UA), while the Language Modeling Group operates within the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Funding
This work is funded by the Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, co-financed by the EU – NextGenerationEU, within the framework of the project Desarrollo de Modelos ALIA. This work has also been partially supported by Project HEART-NLP (PID2024-156263OB-C22).
Acknowledgments
We would like to express our gratitude to all individuals and institutions that have contributed to the development of this work.
Special thanks to:
We also acknowledge the financial, technical, and scientific support of the Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública - Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU within the framework of the project Desarrollo de Modelos ALIA, whose contribution has been essential to the completion of this research.
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Disclaimer
This model is intended for general purposes and is available under a permissive Apache License 2.0. Be aware that the model may have biases and/or undesirable outputs. Users deploying systems based on this model are responsible for mitigating risks and complying with applicable AI regulations.
Reference
@misc{gplsi-Aitana-7B-S-base,
author = {Sepúlveda-Torres, Robiert and Baucells, Irene and Estevanell-Valladares, Ernesto L. and Galiano, Santiago and Consuegra-Ayala, Juan Pablo and Miró Maestre, María and Martínez-Murillo, Iván and Grande, Eduardo and Bonora, Mar and Gutierrez, Yoan and Abreu Salas, José Ignacio and Lloret, Elena and Montoyo, Andrés and Muñoz-Guillena and Palomar, Manuel},
title = {Aitana 7B base: Continually pre-trained on Valencian},
year = {2026},
institution = {Language and Information Systems Group (GPLSI) and Centro de Inteligencia Digital (CENID), University of Alicante (UA)},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/gplsi/gplsi/Aitana-2B-S-base}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-4-8}
}
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University of Alicante (UA).
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