Elaine Zosa

Elaine is an SMTS Software Development Engineer at AMD. She is passionate about advancing natural language processing and machine learning technologies for low-resource languages. Elaine holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki.

Posts by Elaine Zosa

July 24, 2026

Enabling Language-specific Reasoning in Multilingual Models with Reinforcement Learning

Learn how to train multilingual reasoning models with reinforcement learning and extend context windows on AMD Instinct GPUs.

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/rl-training-playbook/README.html

June 18, 2025

Continued Pretraining: A Practical Playbook for Language-Specific LLM Adaptation

A step by step guide to adapting LLMs to new languages via continued pretraining, with Poro 2 boosting Finnish performance using Llama 3.1 and AMD GPUs

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/multilingual-continued-pretraining/README.html