- Source
- arXiv
- Published
- 20 Oct 2026
- Authors
- Mich-Seth Owusu
Excerpt from source
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…
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