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PublishedMay 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Lost in the Tower of Babel: The Adverse Effects of Incidental Multilingualism in LLMs
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arXiv:2605.01224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper argues that contemporary multilingual NLP has converged on a fragile and misleading paradigm of incidental multilingualism. Today's LLMs appear multilingual largely because they are trained on massive, uneven web corpora, not because multili
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