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Africa-Papers: A 10-Billion-Token Multi-Domain Academic Corpus for African Foundation Language Models

Mich-Seth Owusu · 2026 · arXiv

DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.28173 · open-access PDF

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Los grandes modelos de idiomas (LLM) dependen fundamentalmente de la diversidad, profundidad y rigor factual de su corporación de pre-entrenamiento. Sin embargo, los conjuntos de datos de pre-entrenamiento contemporáneos (como The Pile, S2ORC y Dolma) muestran una grave omisión estructural: las becas científicas, médicas, legales y agrícolas africanas constituyen menos del 0,5% de los tokens globales de pre-entrenamiento. En consecuencia, los modelos de última generación sufren de modos sistemáticos de fracaso cuando se razona sobre la epidemiología tropical, las agroecologías localizadas de los pequeños agricultores, la gobernanza económica regional y la estructura lingüística indígena.

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Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) depend fundamentally on the diversity, depth, and factual rigor of their pre-training corpora. However, contemporary foundational pre-training datasets (such as The Pile, S2ORC, and Dolma) exhibit a severe structural omission: African scientific, medical, legal, and agricultural scholarship constitutes less than 0.5% of global pre-training tokens. Consequently, state-of-the-art models suffer from systematic failure modes when reasoning about tropical epidemiology, localized smallholder agro-ecologies, regional economic governance, and indigenous linguistic structur

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