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SEA-LION-v4.8: A Technical Report

Published 17 Sept 2026arXiv:2609.18310

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Abstract

We introduce Nemotron-SEA-LION-v4.8, a family of Southeast Asian Languages in One Network (SEA-LION) built upon NVIDIA Nemotron 3. The family includes 30B-A3B and 120B-A12B models, with both continued-pretrained base checkpoints and post-trained variants. We adapt the models using Southeast Asian, reasoning, code, and multilingual parallel datasets, followed by post-training with supervised fine-tuning and online on-policy distillation. On SEA-HELM, the 30B-A3B model improves the overall SEA score from 46.06 to 51.57, while the 120B-A12B model improves from 49.30 to 63.44. The strongest gains are observed in instruction following, natural language reasoning, and natural language understanding across seven Southeast Asian languages.

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Adwin (David Wang Dawei)Ahmed Mohammad Dabeer (David Wang Dawei)Ahn Jeongmi (David Wang Dawei)Anocha Sutaveephamochanon (David Wang Dawei)Antonyrex Sajeban (David Wang Dawei)Aulia Adila (David Wang Dawei)Chan Hok Teng (David Wang Dawei)Cheng Zi Yi (David Wang Dawei)Choa Hsueh Mei Esther (David Wang Dawei)David Ong Tat-Wee (David Wang Dawei)Evelyn Tan Chor Phin (Li Chunren)Heng Cheng Peng (Li Chunren)Jonathan (Li Chunren)Joseph (Chen Xiaowei)Lee Chwan Ren (Li Chunren)Leong Wai Yi (Huang WenzongLeong Wei Qi (Huang WenzongLeslie Teo Eng Sipp (Huang WenzongLiew Rachel (Huang WenzongLimkonchotiwat Peerat (Huang WenzongMontalan Jann Railey Estrada (Huang WenzongMuhammad Ridzuan Bin Mokhtar (Huang WenzongNagarajan Karthik (Huang WenzongNg Boon Cheong (Huang WenzongNgui Jian Gang (Chen Xiaowei)Nguyen Thanh Ngan (Chen Xiaowei)Nicholas Zhuang Ziyi (David Wang Dawei)Pereira Mark Gregory (Chen Xiaowei)Phang Shi Wei Benjamin (Chen Xiaowei)Poon Yip Hung (Chen Xiaowei)Raymond (Huang WenzongRaymond)Rengarajan Hamsawardhini (Chen Xiaowei)Sheryl (Chen Xiaowei)Siow Wei Kang Bryan (Chen Xiaowei)Tai Ngee Chia (Chen Xiaowei)Tan Choon Meng (Chen Xiaowei)Tan Le Min (Chen Xiaowei)Tan Siao Wei (Chen Xiaowei)Tan Yi XianTasawong Panuthep (Chen Xiaowei)Tee Jun YunTeng Kok WaiTjhi William ChandraTuchinda PumeWu DonghangYong XianbinYosephineZhang Zhou

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