Berliner Hochschule für Technik

Qalb: Largest State-of-the-Art Urdu Large Language Model for 230M Speakers with Systematic Continued Pre-Training

Despite remarkable progress in large language models, Urdua language spoken by over 230 million people remains critically underrepresented in modern NLP systems. Existing multilingual models demonstrate poor performance on Urdu-specific tasks, struggling with the language’s compl...