We open-source SMOL(Set of Maximal Over-all Leverage), a suite of training data to un-lock machine translation for low-resource languages (LRLs). SMOL has been translated into123 under-resourced languages (125 language pairs), including many for which there exist no previous public resources, for a total of 6.1M translated tokens. SMOL comprises two sub-datasets, each carefully chosen for maximum impact given its size: SMOLSENT, a set of sentences chosen for broad unique token coverage, and SMOLDOC, a document-level source focusing on a broad topic coverage. They join the already released GATITOS for a trifecta of paragraph, sentence, and token-level content. We demonstrate that using SMOL to prompt or fine-tune Large Language Models yields robust chrF improvements. In addition to translation, we provide factuality ratings and rationales for all documents in SMOLDOC, yielding the first factuality datasets for most of these languages.

FLORES is a benchmark dataset designed for evaluating machine translation systems, partic- ularly for low-resource languages. This paper, conducted as a part of Open Language Data Ini- tiative (OLDI) shared task, presents our contri- bution to expanding the FLORES dataset with high-quality translations from Russian to Tu- van, an endangered Turkic language. Our ap- proach combined the linguistic expertise of na- tive speakers to ensure both accuracy and cul- tural relevance in the translations. This project represents a significant step forward in support- ing Tuvan as a low-resource language in the realm of natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation (MT).