This repository contains the Tower+ 72B model, as presented in the paper Tower+: Bridging Generality and Translation Specialization in Multilingual LLMs.
Project Page: https://huggingface.co/collections/Unbabel/tower-plus-6846ca452a10c0905dc03c0f
Model Description:
Tower+ 72B is build on top of Qwen 2.5 72B. The model goes through the Continuous Pretraining (CPT), Instruction Tuning (IT) and Weighted Preference Optimization (WPO). During all these stages we include parallel and multilingual data (covering 22 languages).
- Developed by: Unbabel
- Model type: A 72B parameter model fine-tuned on a mix of translation-related tasks as well as general instruction-following datasets that include reasoning, code instructions, etc.
- Languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Russian, English, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin America), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Ukrainian, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Romanian, Danish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norwegian (Bokmål), Finnish
- License: CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Context Size:: 131,072 tokens (recommended generation tokens 8192)
Intended uses & limitations
Tower is intended for multilingual tasks and its specially strong on translation related tasks.
Another usecase Tower works well is for creating multilingual synthethic data (for the languages it covers). You can do this either by translating instructions and the respective answers or by asking the model to create an instruction given a document as seed data.
Usage:
When using the model, make sure your prompt is formated correctly!
Also, we recommend using VLLM rather than Hugging Face.
Using on VLLM:
# pip install vllm
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
sampling_params = SamplingParams(
best_of=1,
temperature=0,
max_tokens=8192,
)
llm = LLM(model="Unbabel/Tower-Plus-72B", tensor_parallel_size=4)
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Translate the following English source text to Portuguese (Portugal):\nEnglish: Hello world!\nPortuguese (Portugal): "}]
outputs = llm.chat(messages, sampling_params)
# Make sure your prompt_token_ids look like this
print (outputs[0].outputs[0].text)
# > Olá, mundo!
Using on Transformers:
# pip install transformers
# pip install accelerate
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Unbabel/Tower-Plus-72B", device_map="auto")
# We use the tokenizer’s chat template to format each message - see https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/chat_templating
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Translate the following English source text to Portuguese (Portugal):\nEnglish: Hello world!\nPortuguese (Portugal): "}]
input_ids = pipe.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True)
outputs = pipe(messages, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=False)
print(outputs[0]["generated_text"])
Citation
If you use this model please cite our paper:
@misc{rei2025towerplus,
title={Tower+: Bridging Generality and Translation Specialization in Multilingual LLMs},
author={Ricardo Rei and Nuno M. Guerreiro and José Pombal and João Alves and Pedro Teixeirinha and Amin Farajian and André F. T. Martins},
year={2025},
eprint={2506.17080},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17080},
}