@inproceedings{yu-etal-2026-afriquellm, title = "{A}frique{LLM}: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for {A}frican Languages", author = "Yu, Hao and Xu, Tianyi and Hedderich, Michael A. and Hamidouche, Wassim and Zamir, Syed Waqas and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.267/", pages = "5909--5928", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }