# 🏗 Contributing to MK-LLM

## 🌟 About
MK-LLM is an **open-source** project under **AI Now - Association for Artificial Intelligence in Macedonia**.  
📌 **Website:** [www.ainow.mk](https://www.ainow.mk) | 📩 **Contact:** [contact@ainow.mk](mailto:contact@ainow.mk)

## 💡 Ways to Contribute

### 1. Data Collection & Processing
- Add new Macedonian text sources
- Improve data cleaning algorithms
- Create better validation tools
- Enhance text preprocessing
- Add support for new data formats

### 2. Model Development
- Implement new model architectures
- Optimize training procedures
- Improve inference speed
- Add quantization support
- Create better evaluation metrics

### 3. Documentation & Testing
- Improve documentation
- Add code examples
- Create tutorials
- Write tests
- Translate documentation

### 4. User Interface & Tools
- Create web interfaces
- Build CLI tools
- Develop APIs
- Make visualization tools
- Create debugging utilities

## 🛠 Development Workflow

1. **Fork & Clone**
   ```bash
   git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/MK-LLM.git
   cd MK-LLM
```
3. **Check Open Issues** ([`docs/GITHUB_ISSUES.md`](./docs/GITHUB_ISSUES.md)) and pick a task.
4. **Submit a Pull Request (PR)** once you complete a feature.

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