@inproceedings{shafique-etal-2025-alif,
    title = "Alif: Advancing {U}rdu Large Language Models via Multilingual Synthetic Data Distillation",
    author = "Shafique, Muhammad Ali  and
      Mehreen, Kanwal  and
      Arham, Muhammad  and
      Amjad, Maaz  and
      Butt, Sabur  and
      Farooq, Hamza",
    editor = "Adelani, David Ifeoluwa  and
      Arnett, Catherine  and
      Ataman, Duygu  and
      Chang, Tyler A.  and
      Gonen, Hila  and
      Raja, Rahul  and
      Schmidt, Fabian  and
      Stap, David  and
      Wang, Jiayi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2025)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhuo, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.mrl-main.19/",
    pages = "271--284",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-345-6"
}