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An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT)

Laurie Burchell, Ona de Gibert, Nikolay Arefyev, Mikko Aulamo, Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Mariia Fedorova, Liane Guillou

Abstract

Training state-of-the-art large language models requires vast amounts of clean and diverse textual data. However, building suitable multilingual datasets remains a challenge. In this work, we present HPLT v2, a collection of high-quality multilingual monolingual and parallel corpora, extending prior work of the HPLT project. The monolingual portion of the data contains 8T tokens covering 193 languages, while the parallel data contains 380M sentence pairs covering 51 languages. We document the entire data pipeline and release the code to reproduce it. We provide extensive analysis of the quality and characteristics of our data. Finally, we evaluate the performance of language models and machine translation systems trained on HPLT v2, demonstrating its value.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{burchell-etal-2025-expanded,
    title = "An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies ({HPLT})",
    author = {Burchell, Laurie  and
      de Gibert, Ona  and
      Arefyev, Nikolay  and
      Aulamo, Mikko  and
      Ba{\~n}{\'o}n, Marta  and
      Chen, Pinzhen  and
      Fedorova, Mariia  and
      Guillou, Liane  and
      Haddow, Barry  and
      Haji{\v{c}}, Jan  and
      Helcl, Jind{\v{r}}ich  and
      Henriksson, Erik  and
      Klimaszewski, Mateusz  and
      Komulainen, Ville  and
      Kutuzov, Andrey  and
      Kyt{\"o}niemi, Joona  and
      Laippala, Veronika  and
      M{\ae}hlum, Petter  and
      Malik, Bhavitvya  and
      Mehryary, Farrokh  and
      Mikhailov, Vladislav  and
      Moghe, Nikita  and
      Myntti, Amanda  and
      O{'}Brien, Dayy{\'a}n  and
      Oepen, Stephan  and
      Pal, Proyag  and
      Piha, Jousia  and
      Pyysalo, Sampo  and
      Ram{\'i}rez-S{\'a}nchez, Gema  and
      Samuel, David  and
      Stepachev, Pavel  and
      Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg  and
      Vari{\v{s}}, Du{\v{s}}an  and
      Vojt{\v{e}}chov{\'a}, Tereza  and
      Zaragoza-Bernabeu, Jaume},
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.854/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.854",
    pages = "17452--17485",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0"
}
An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) · ACL 2025