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PublishedSeptember 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact? Rethinking Latent Language in Multilingual LLMs
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arXiv:2609.00155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent language identification is often used to argue that multilingual language models route computation through language-specific states, such as English pivots. However, existing probes infer latent language from different signals, such as the geo
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