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When Similar Means Different: Evaluating LLMs on Arabic--Hebrew Cognates
Jun 11, 2026Junhong Liang, Noor Abo Mokh, Bashar AlhafniMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Arabic NLP
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Which LoRA? An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of LoRA Techniques During Multilingual Instruction Tuning
Jun 9, 2026Thamali Wijewardhana, Napoleon H. Reyes, Surangika RanathungaLow-Rank Adaptation Cross-Lingual Transfer
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
From A to B to A: Palindromic Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Non-Parallel Data
Jun 7, 2026Moshe Mandel, Shlomo E. ChazanSpeech Processing Voice Conversion
Independent, Israel · OriginAI, Israel
ClinicalAligner26AM: A Cross-Lingual Aligner for Dataset Translation; Evidences from the MultiClinCorpus Shared Task
Jun 7, 2026François RemyClinical NLP Cross-Lingual Transfer
Parallia Healthcare AI
KIT's Submission to Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning in IWSLT 2026
Jun 5, 2026Seymanur Akti, Alexander WaibelTTS Synthesis Cross-Lingual Transfer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) · KIT Campus Transfer (KCT) · Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Improving Cross-Lingual Factual Recall via Consistency-Driven Reinforcement Learning
Jun 4, 2026Jonathan von Rad, Louis Arts, George Burgess +6Multilingual Language Model Evaluation RL for Language Models
University College London, Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning Elicits Contextual Learning of Unseen Language Translation
Jun 4, 2026Hanxu Hu, Zdeněk Šnajdr, Pinzhen Chen +2RL for Language Models In-Context Learning
University of Zurich · ETH Zurich · Queen’s University Belfast
English-to-Prakrit Machine Translation via Multilingual Transfer Learning
Jun 4, 2026Om Choksi, Smit Kareliya, Shrikant Malviya +1Multilingual Language Models Low-Resource MT
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat
Towards Truly Multilingual ASR: Generalizing Code-Switching ASR to Unseen Language Pairs
Jun 4, 2026Gio Paik, Hyunseo Shin, Soungmin LeeCode-Switching Speech Recognition Domain Generalization
Theta One Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Kitsch Labs, Seongnam, Republic of Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea +1
Multilingual Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Transfer Learning Approach
Jun 4, 2026Nadine Yasser Abdelhalim, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole SalomonsSpeech-Based Dementia Detection Speech Processing
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
DuDi: Dual-Signal Distillation with Cross-Lingual Verbalizer
Jun 3, 2026Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Tinnakit Udsa, Jian Gang Ngui +3Multilingual Language Models Small Language Models
School of Information Science and Technology, VISTEC · AI Singapore · MBZUAI
Exploring Adversarial Robustness and Safety Alignment in Multilingual Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Jun 2, 2026Hashmat Shadab Malik, Muzammal Naseer, Salman KhanMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Adversarial Attacks on VLMs
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI, UAE · Khalifa University, UAE · Australian National University, Australia
Multilingual Unlearning in LLMs: Transfer, Dynamics, and Reversibility
Jun 2, 2026Chaoyi Xiang, Olga Ohrimenko, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein +1Machine Unlearning LLM Unlearning
School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Cross-lingual Self-Consistency for Multilingual Reasoning with Language Models
May 31, 2026Ahmed Elhady, Eneko Agirre, Mikel ArtetxeMultilingual Language Models Cross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models
HiTZ Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) · Reka AI
Understanding LLM Behavior in Multi-Target Cross-Lingual Summarization
May 31, 2026Sangwon Ryu, Yihong Liu, Mingyang Wang +4Multilingual Language Model Evaluation Text Summarization
GSAI, POSTECH · LMU Munich · MCML +2
Shared Doubt: Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Confidence Estimation for Language Models
May 29, 2026Athina Kyriakou, Dennis Ulmer, Ivan TitovMultilingual Language Models Zero-Shot Learning
° ILCC, University of Edinburgh · M ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages
May 29, 2026Gerrit Quaremba, Amy Rechkemmer, Elizabeth Black +2Multilingual Language Model Evaluation Small Language Models
King’s College London · Wikimedia Foundation
Cross-Lingual Steering for Figurative Language Generation
May 28, 2026Linfeng Liu, Tiffany Zhan, Louie Hong Yao +2Multilingual Language Models Language Model Steering
Department of Computer Science, University of Cincinnati · School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University · Independent Researcher
CorPipe at CRAC 2026: Empty Nodes and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Coreference Resolution
May 28, 2026Milan StrakaCoreference Resolution Cross-Lingual Transfer
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics Malostranské nám. 25, Prague, Czech Republic
Multi-Legal-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Legal Reasoning Across Jurisdictions, Languages, and Legal Traditions
May 28, 2026Volodymyr OvcharovMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Legal NLP
SecondLayer
Source-Grounded Semantic Reinforcement Learning for Low-Resource Target-Language Generation
May 28, 2026Zeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Zewei Pan +8RL for Language Models Low-Resource Language Processing
Minzu University of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Peking University +3
Beyond Bilingual Transfer: Multilingual Code-Switching in Instruction Tuning
May 28, 2026Shunta Asano, Jeonghun Baek, Toshihiko YamasakiMultilingual Language Models Code-Switching
The University of Tokyo
Diffusion-Based Ukrainian Handwritten Text Generation with Cross-Domain Style Transfer
May 26, 2026Andrii Ahitoliev, Pavlo BerezinLatent Diffusion Models Image Style Transfer
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine · National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine
An In-Vitro Study on Cross-Lingual Generalization in Language Models
May 26, 2026Adrian CosmaMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Cross-Lingual Transfer
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA)
CroCo: Cross-Lingual Contrastive Preference Tuning on Self-Generations
May 25, 2026Mike Zhang, Ali Basirat, Desmond ElliottMultilingual Language Models LLM Alignment
Department of Computer Science (DIKU), University of Copenhagen · Centre for Language Technology (CST), University of Copenhagen · Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Forgotten Words: Benchmarking NeoBERT for Dementia Detection in Low-Resource Conversational Filipino and English Speech
May 25, 2026Rez Samantha Z. Floresca, Edric Castel C. Hao, Hannah Grachiella Buñales +3Multilingual Language Model Evaluation Speech-Based Dementia Detection
Ateneo de Manila Senior High School · Analog Devices, Inc.
Multilingual Phonological Feature Recognition with Self-Supervised Speech Models
May 25, 2026Abner Hernandez, Tomás Arias-Vergara, Daiqi Liu +2Speech Processing Cross-Lingual Transfer
Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany · GITA Lab. Facultad de Ingenier´ıa. Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Medell´ın, Colombia
Learning to Route Languages for Multilingual Policy Optimization
May 25, 2026Geyang Guo, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji +2Multilingual Language Models RL for Language Models
Georgia Institute of Technology · Sony Group Corporation · Sony AI
The Tokenizer Tax Across 25 European Languages: Domain Invariance, Cross-Lingual Few-Shot Effects, and the Ukrainian Penalty
May 23, 2026Volodymyr OvcharovMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Low-Resource Language Processing
LEX AI Platform, legal.org.ua · Kyiv, Ukraine
The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic
May 23, 2026Yosef Worku Alemneh, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de RijkeMultilingual IR Low-Resource Language Processing
Independent Researcher · University of Amsterdam

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When Similar Means Different: Evaluating LLMs on Arabic--Hebrew Cognates

Junhong Liang, Noor Abo Mokh, Bashar Alhafni

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Multilingual Language Model Evaluation Arabic NLP Cross-Lingual Transfer

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Arabic and Hebrew, as closely related Semitic languages, share many words with similar surface forms, including true cognates, false friends, and modern loanwords. These lexical relationships create ambiguity for cross-lingual semantic interpretation, as similar forms may correspond to shared, divergent, or borrowed meanings. To evaluate whether LLMs can make these distinctions, we introduce SemCog Bench, a curated benchmark of 1,858 Arabic--Hebrew word pairs with sentence-level annotations for cognate identification and semantic disambiguation. We evaluate a diverse set of open-source and proprietary LLMs across multiple input representations and contextual settings. Our results show reliance on surface-form similarity, with weaker performance on false friends and wide variation on loanwords. We further find that context and scale yield model-dependent gains, while original-script inputs generally perform best. Our findings reveal limitations in cross-lingual form-meaning reasoning and establish SemCog Bench as a benchmark for cross-lingual lexical semantics. Our code and data are publicly available.