@article{alifadvancingurdulargelanguagemodelsviam, title = {Alif: Advancing Urdu Large Language Models via Multilingual Synthetic Data Distillation}, author = {Muhammad Ali Shafique and Kanwal Mehreen and Muhammad Arham and Maaz Amjad and Sabur Butt and Hamza Farooq}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2510.09051}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09051}, }