arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.02379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While existing work on LLM authorship attribution (AA) has made progress, available benchmarks remain limited, often focusing on English, controlled settings, or relatively outdated models, with the few multilingual studies considering only relativel
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2609.01657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal models often build on architectures designed for generative vision-language modeling, typically combining separately pretrained vision encoders with causal language models. Visual document retrievers such as ColPali repurpose these models
arxiv2d ago
arXiv:2606.09435v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual dictionaries are among the most valuable documentary resources for low-resource and endangered languages, yet many remain available only as scans. For many decades, their digitization and conversion into a machine-readable format was n
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.00802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-party interaction is a central setting for human communication and a necessary target for human-agent interaction systems that must participate in group conversation. Yet available corpora often focus on meetings, task-oriented interaction, text-
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2512.05658v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) with reasoning capabilities have recently demonstrated strong potential in medical Question Answering (QA). Existing approaches are largely English-focused and primarily rely on distillation from general-purpose L
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.00329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lexical normalization rewrites the noisy, non-standard words that fill user-generated text (tmrw, u, gr8) into their standard forms. Because labelled data is scarce for most languages, a popular shortcut is to train a single model on many languages a
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.00319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online health information seeking is shifting from keyword search, where users consider a ranked list of links, to conversational systems that compose a single answer and curate its citations. Source evaluation therefore passes from user to platform,
arxiv3d ago
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
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.01356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models (mLLMs) achieve strong performance in machine translation, yet our understanding of the mechanisms by which they transform representations from one language to another remains incomplete. Prior work suggests that tran
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.00325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models can exhibit unintended code-switching -- unnecessarily alternating between languages during generation. We present a comparative study of three methods that identify language-controlling latents in cross-layer transco
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2510.23508v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing real-world datasets for multimodal fact-checking have multiple limitations: they contain few instances, cover only one or two languages, focus on a single task, or rely on external news article sets to source true claims. To address these
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.01056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the growing use of LLM-powered agents to solve multi-step tasks in complex environments, existing benchmarks rarely test state preservation, performance across languages, and application to realistic, grounded scenarios. To address these concer
arxiv3d ago
arXiv:2609.00378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models pay a well-documented tax on non-English text: the same content costs several times more tokens, and because attention is quadratic in sequence length, far more compute. We ask how much of this tax is removable. Framing the token
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2604.03592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models exhibit striking performance disparities across languages, yet the internal mechanisms driving these gaps remain poorly understood. In this work, we conduct a systematic analysis of expert routing patterns in M
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.30725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent multilingual vision--language encoders cover hundreds of languages in a single model, yet on two state-of-the-art instances retrieval on low-resource languages (LRL; e.g. Swahili) trails high-resource ones (HRL; e.g. English) by $30^+$\,pp. We a
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.29959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language is humanity's most consequential technology, yet for over a billion speakers across India's twenty-two constitutionally recognised languages, its digital layer remains structurally incomplete. Named Entity Recognition (NER), the foundational s
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2603.00620v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual NLP research increasingly involves hundreds or thousands of languages across different datasets. Managing, discovering, and reporting language metadata becomes a common hurdle at these scales. We present QQ, a metadata toolkit and brow
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2604.11290v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthesizing supervised finetuning (SFT) data from language models (LMs) to teach smaller models multilingual tasks has become increasingly common. However, teacher model selection is often ad hoc, typically defaulting to the largest available opti
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.30866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building language technologies and conducting NLP research for low-resource languages---particularly when led by native speakers or involving participatory research practices---are often framed as means of addressing inequality, serving local communiti
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2601.17173v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Question answering systems are typically evaluated on factual correctness, yet many real-world applications-such as education and career guidance-require mentorship: responses that provide reflection and guidance. Existing QA benchmarks rarel
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2601.06347v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in universal multilingual named entity recognition (NER) has been driven by multilingual transformer models, task-specific architectures, custom loss functions, and large-scale training datasets. However, despite substantial prior w
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.28924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linguistic theory has long recognized cross-linguistic syntactic regularities, leading to claims that these similar structures are processed by similar mechanisms. However, this hypothesis has been difficult to test empirically due to our lack of fine-
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2509.17930v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multilingual translation suffers from computational redundancy, especially when translating into multiple languages simultaneously. In addition, translation quality can suffer for low-resource languages. To address this, we introduce Transfor
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.30463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Solvability detection is one of the most challenging aspects of mathematical reasoning for Large Language Models (LLMs). While prior work has studied this capability extensively, these analyses have been limited to English. Consequently, it remains unc
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.30884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While gender and racial biases in language models have been widely studied, anti-LGBTQ biases remain underexplored, particularly beyond English. Existing benchmarks often do not capture cultural and linguistic variation and rely on gender representat
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.28776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual sentence embeddings are increasingly used to estimate semantic similarity across languages, yet their sensitivity to fine-grained translation errors remains insufficiently understood. This study investigates whether general-purpose multili
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2606.17188v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current multilingual evaluations for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) assume a one-to-one mapping between language and orthography, overlooking billions of users of multi-script languages. We introduce PuMVR (Punjabi Multimodal Visual Reasoning)
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2510.03136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Confidence calibration, the alignment of a model's predicted confidence with its actual accuracy, is crucial for the reliable deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, this critical property remains largely under-explored in multilingual
arxiv4d ago
arXiv:2608.28641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most evaluations for coding agents are conducted exclusively in English, which does not reflect real-world multilingual deployment. We present Terminal-Bench-LILT, a suite of 300 authentic coding tasks in ten languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish
arxiv5d ago
arXiv:2608.25904v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual language models transfer knowledge across languages through shared subword vocabulary, a mechanism that breaks down when related languages use different writing systems. Prior work addresses this via script equalization (romanization o
arxiv5d ago
arXiv:2512.00234v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: There has been significant progress in open-source text-only translation large language models (LLMs) with better language coverage and quality. However, these models can be only used in cascaded pipelines for speech translation (ST), performing au
arxiv5d ago
arXiv:2608.28405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking practical help over multiple turns in culturally grounded scenarios. We intro
arxiv5d ago
arXiv:2608.28042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text simplification aims to make complex texts easier to understand while preserving their original meaning. Recent large language models can perform simplification through prompting, but it remains unclear whether adding explicit linguistic informatio
arxiv5d ago
arXiv:2511.07011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Remotely captured spoken language could provide objective, regular indicators of depression symptom severity. However, research to date has largely used non-clinical, cross-sectional written language and complex machine learning (ML) ap
arxivAug 29
arXiv:2608.26125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online hate against Muslim communities often appears in culturally coded, multilingual forms that evade conventional AI moderation. Such systems, though accurate, remain opaque and risk bias, over-censorship, or under-moderation, particularly when de
arxivAug 29
arXiv:2606.18801v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid expansion of massive multilingual corpora, Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) has emerged as a critical technology for global information access. MLIR enables users to retrieve semantically relevant documents from multil
arxivAug 29
arXiv:2605.31171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) reflects real-world search environments in which queries and relevant documents may appear in different languages within a mixed-language corpus. However, existing embedding models are primarily optim
arxivAug 29
arXiv:2608.26155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models have advanced rapidly, yet most remain English-centric, as scaling multilingual multimodal instruction tuning is limited by the scarcity and high cost of high-quality non-English image-text supervision. Although multi
arxivAug 28
arXiv:2608.26449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level BPE tokenizers that use the HuggingFace ByteLevel pre-tokenizer inherit GPT-2's word regex, where a word is defined as \p{L}+, one or more Unicode letters. In abugida scripts, vowels are written as combining marks; this pattern therefore spl
arxivAug 28
arXiv:2603.21165v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bangla culture is richly expressed through region, dialect, history, food, politics, media, and everyday visual life, yet it remains underrepresented in multimodal evaluation. To address this gap, we introduce BanglaVerse, a culturally grounded ben
arxivAug 27
arXiv:2603.02041v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are predominantly trained on English-centric data, resulting in uneven performance for smaller languages. We study whether continued pretraining (CPT) can improve Estonian capabilities in multilingual LLMs while p
arxivAug 27
arXiv:2605.26735v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent reasoning Large Language Models produce a chain-of-thought (CoT) predominantly in English, even when prompted in non-English languages. Prior work suggests that forcing the CoT to remain in the input language (native reasoning) substantially
arxivAug 27
arXiv:2608.24958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An audio language model is a black box in a specific way: we see what it says, never what it works out on the way there, and chain-of-thought monitoring helps only if the model writes its reasoning down. Reading a base Qwen3-Omni with a logit lens at
arxivAug 27
arXiv:2605.11632v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-generated counterfactual explanations (SCEs) are minimally modified inputs (minimality) generated by large language models (LLMs) that flip their own predictions (validity), offering a causally grounded approach to unraveling black-box LLM beh
huggingfaceAug 10
arxivAug 3
arXiv:2607.29125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems (FDSDSs) can listen while speaking, enabling natural behaviors such as smooth turn-taking, backchannel handling, and user barge-in handling. However, fair comparisons in multi-turn conversations remain a challenge. I
arxivAug 3
arXiv:2607.27178v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-of-the-art retrieval models increasingly rely on closed training data, creating a reproducibility gap. We present an open end-to-end recipe for training retrieval models and study how English supervision transfers to multilingual retrieval th