Portugal's AMALIA 9B model matches larger models in moral foundation coding
Portugal released AMALIA, a publicly funded 9B-parameter language model for European Portuguese, which achieves agreement with human coders on moral foundation of authority within six F1 points of models 8-13x its size. The paper raises questions about validity versus reliability for theoretical constructs.
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