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  1. Assessing the Impact of Language Disparity on Multilingual Linguistic Ability in Large Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Zhanyu Chen, Jaap JumeletMultilingual Language ModelsMultilingual

    University of Groningen

  2. What Does Post-Training Change in Multilingual Reasoning?

    Sep 29, 2026Hongyang Li, Xiao Li, Caesar Wu +2Multilingual Language ModelsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    University of Luxembourg · Seafill Open-Source Community

  3. Multilinguality in Hybrid Attention LLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Lucas Bandarkar, Junlin Hu, Chenyuan Yang +2Multilingual Language ModelsMultilingual

    University of California, Los Angeles · Fudan University

  4. Multi-Task Learning by using Contextualized Word Representations for Syntactic Parsing of a Morphologically Rich Language

    Sep 24, 2026Toqeer Ehsan, Miriam Butt, Sarmad Hussain +2UrduSyntactic Structure

    Reliable Intelligence Team, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 02150 Espoo, Finland. · Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany. · Center for Language Engineering, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, 54890 Lahore, Pakistan. +2

  5. Script Choice in LLMs: Evidence for Late-Layer Commitment

    Sep 23, 2026David Kletz, Sandra Mitrović, Itay Sabato +2Cryptographic Merkle Tree CommitmentsCommitment

    SUPSI, IDSIA, Switzerland · Independent Researcher · armasuisse, Science & Technology, Switzerland

  6. Why Pretraining Fails to Share Cross-Lingual Knowledge

    Sep 16, 2026Adam Gaber, Uriel Dolev, Elisabeth Fittschen +3Cross-Lingual TransferMultilingual Language Models

    Weizmann Institute of Science · Bar-Ilan University · Johns Hopkins University +4

  7. Target-Language Generation in Multilingual Models: Activation Steering and Optimal Control

    Sep 15, 2026James A. Michaelov, Carmen Amo Alonso, Tyler A. Chang +1Multilingual Language ModelsMotion-Language Alignment

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Stanford University · University of California San Diego

  8. To Each Language Its Tokenizer: Modular Tokenizers for Efficient Multilingual LLMs

    Sep 14, 2026Franck Signe, Hippolyte Pilchen, François Yvon +1Multilingual Language ModelsTokenizer

    Kyutai, Paris · Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, Grenoble · Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Paris

  9. Distribution-aware Language Neuron Identification in Multilingual Large Language Models

    Sep 11, 2026Minjun Kim, Inho Won, Junghun Yuk +3Multilingual Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    KAIST · KAIST InnoCORE PRISM-AI Center

  10. A Systematic Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Consistency Enhancement Methods in Multilingual Language Models

    Sep 3, 2026Jirui Qi, Mingyang Wang, Hinrich Schütze +2Cross-Lingual ConsistencyMultilingual Language Models

    University of Groningen · LMU Munich · University of Amsterdam

  11. Probing Factual Knowledge Transfer with Training Data Interventions

    Sep 1, 2026Romina Oji, Marc Braun, Marcel Bollmann +2Multilingual Language ModelsLarge Language Model Pretraining

    Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University

  12. Latent Mechanisms of Language Control in Multilingual Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Ryo Mitsuhashi, Sabri Boughorbel, Majd HawaslyMultilingual Language ModelsCode-Switching

    Princeton University New Jersey, USA · Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · QCRI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

  13. Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact? Rethinking Latent Language in Multilingual LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Deniz Bayazit, Badr AlKhamissi, Antoine BosselutMultilingual Language ModelsLanguage Pairs

    EPFL

  14. Evaluating and Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ Biases in German and Multilingual Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Melina Morch, Daniel BraunLarge Language Model BiasMultilingual Benchmark

    Marburg University · Computer Science · Cultural Data Studies +2

  15. Do Small Models Use the Law You Give Them? Measuring Context Use on a Bilingual Bangladesh Legal Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Moniruzzaman Mahadi, Abrar Mohammed Tanzim Alam, Sayma Siddika Monalisa +3Legal DomainBangla

    North South University · BRAC University

  16. Double Trouble: Bilingual Pretraining Leaves Language-Conditioned Effects in Shared-Language Representations

    Aug 27, 2026Anjishnu Mukherjee, Ziwei Zhu, Antonios AnastasopoulosMultilingual Language ModelsLanguage Pairs

    George Mason University

  17. One Form to Transfer Them All: Pretraining Multilingual Language Models Beyond Native Orthography

    Aug 26, 2026Muge Zhang, Aaron Jencks, Krishna Badikela +2Multilingual Language ModelsAccents

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University · Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

  18. There is No Theoretical Curse of Multilinguality For Embedding Space Structure

    Aug 17, 2026Niyati Bafna, Neha Verma, Vilém Zouhar +2Multilingual Language ModelsMultilingual

    Johns Hopkins University, Center for Language and Speech Processing · ETH Zurich

  19. BavGround: A Benchmark for Regional Cultural Grounding and Dialect Competence in Bavarian

    Aug 13, 2026Jophin John, Michael Hoffmann, Jan Fillies +2Multilingual BenchmarkDialects

    Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Garching, Germany · Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA · Freie Universität Berlin, Germany +2

  20. When the API Speaks the Wrong Language: Revisiting Post-Training for Multilingual Tool Use

    Aug 12, 2026Siddharth Chauhan, Thomas Butler, Abhishek Singhania +2Multilingual Language ModelsMultilingual

    Amazon.

  21. A Cost-Efficient Routing Pipeline for Multilingual Short-Text Classification Using Small Language Models

    Aug 11, 2026Wajdi Ben Saad, Safa MadiouniMultilingual Language Models

    Carthago Labs Paris, France · Université Paris Dauphine-PSL Paris, France

  22. Evaluating Dedicated Monolingual and Joint Multilingual Causal Models for Dravidian Languages

    Aug 7, 2026Venkata Naga Sai Vishnu Rohit PulipakaMultilingual Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    Independent Researcher

  23. On-Policy Delta Distillation for Multilingual Math Reasoning

    Aug 6, 2026Byeongho Heo, Jaehui Hwang, Sangdoo Yun +1LLM Reasoning StrategiesLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    NAVER AI Lab

  24. Task-Conditional Flow Matching for Balanced Multilingual Text Embedding Adaptation

    Aug 6, 2026Tirth Bhatt, Naren Kumar S, Mayank SinghMultilingual Language ModelsLarge Language Model Adaptation

    LINGO Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India

  25. Different Perturbations, Different Mechanisms: Understanding Continued Pre-training for Zero-Shot Dialect Robustness

    Aug 6, 2026Aarohi Srivastava, David ChiangDialectsMultilingual Language Models

    Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA

  26. Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains

    Aug 5, 2026Ayoub Kirouane, Christos PetrocheilosGreekAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

    Sophea AI, KIEFER SA, Athens, Greece

  27. Strengthening Target-Language Features: SAE-Based Steering for Multilingual Inference

    Aug 5, 2026Hongsheng Wang, Philipp KoehnMultilingual Language ModelsSparse Autoencoder Features

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore / USA

  28. K-EXAONE 2.0 Technical Report

    Aug 5, 2026Eunbi Choi, Kibong Choi, Sehyun Chun +74Multilingual Language ModelsTechnical Report

  29. M-GATE: Multilingual Grammar, Accuracy in Translation, and Efficiency Benchmark for Large Language Models

    Aug 4, 2026Tomáš Burkert, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, David ZelenýMultilingual BenchmarkMultilingual Language Models

    RWS TrainAI

  30. Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    Aug 3, 2026Chao Huang, Yufeng Chen, Changhao Guan +3Multilingual Language ModelsMultimodal Retrieval

    Key Laboratory of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence in Transportation (Beijing Jiaotong University), Ministry of Education · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University

  31. DenseOn with the LateOn: Fully Open Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Multilingual, Long-Context, and Code Search

    Jul 29, 2026Raphaël Sourty, Antoine Chaffin, Paulo Roberto Moura Junior +1Multilingual Language ModelsRetrieval Layer

    1LightOn

  32. MoLGE: Mixture of Language Group Experts for Efficient Scaling of Massively Multilingual Speech Recognition

    Jul 27, 2026Sangmin Lee, Woojin Chung, Woongjib Choi +1Multilingual Automatic Speech RecognitionMultilingual Language Models

    Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

  33. Cascading versus Joint Modeling for Hierarchical Offensive Language Detection

    Jul 18, 2026Ruixing Ren, Junhui Zhao, Xiaoke SunMultilingual Language ModelsMulti--Task Learning

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China · National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC), Beijing 100029, China

  34. JOR-Bench: Japanese Operations Research Benchmarks for Large Language Models

    Jul 18, 2026Yuu JinnaiOperations ResearchLarge Language Model Benchmarks

    CyberAgent Tokyo, Japan

  35. Expanding the Lexicon of Ge'ez Based African Languages: A Comparative Study of Amharic and Tigrinya

    Jul 16, 2026Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Wolfgang NejdlMultilingual Language ModelsAfrican Languages

    L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany · Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

  36. Polarization Detection: A Hybrid Approach with AfroXLMR-Social and DeBERTa for Low- and High-Resource Settings

    Jul 11, 2026Muhammad Abdullahi SaidMultilingual Language ModelsHate Speech Detection

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

  37. Echoes Across Vietnam's Highlands, Delta, and Coast: A Multilingual Corpus for Cham, Khmer, and Tay-Nung

    Jul 9, 2026Anh Trac Duc Dinh, Khang Nhat Hoang Vo, Vinh Cong Doan +2Multilingual Language ModelsLow-Resource Languages

    Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  38. Progressive Refinement: An Iterative Pseudo-Labeling Approach for Mandarin-English Code-Switching ASR

    Jul 6, 2026Qu Yang, Cakra Wardhana, Tim NgCode-SwitchingMultilingual Automatic Speech Recognition

    Apple, Singapore · National University of Singapore, Singapore

  39. Safety Targeted Embedding Exploit via Refinement

    Jul 2, 2026Joshua Adrian CahyonoMultilingual SafetyLarge Language Model Safety

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  40. MultiSynt/MT: Trillion-Token Multi-Parallel Pre-Training Data Translated Across 36 Languages

    Jul 1, 2026Maximilian Idahl, Jörg Tiedemann, Sampo Pyysalo +19Multilingual Language ModelsLarge Language Model Pretraining

    ellamind · Leibniz University Hannover · University of Helsinki +14

  41. Think in English, Answer in Korean: Efficient Adaptation of Multilingual Tool-Using Agents

    Jun 30, 2026Utsav Garg, Sungjin Hong, Jason Jung +6Multilingual AgentsMultilingual Language Models

    1Cohere

  42. Bridging Scientific Heritage: An Arabic--Russian Parallel Corpus and LLM Benchmark for Sustainable Knowledge Transfer

    Jun 29, 2026M. K. ArabovMultilingual Language ModelsLarge Language Model Benchmarks

    Kazan Federal University, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Information Technologies, Department of Data Analysis, Kazan, Russia

  43. Multilingual Polarization Detection Using Transformer-Based Models with Class Weighting and Threshold Tuning

    Jun 29, 2026Aaron Bundi AnampiuMultilingual Language ModelsNatural Language Processing

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, South Africa

  44. BERTomelo: Your Portuguese Encoder Best Friend

    Jun 27, 2026Rennê Ruan Alves Oliveira, Gustavo Cordeiro Galvão Van Erven, Luís Paulo Faina GarciaPortugueseMultilingual Language Models

    Department of Computer Science University of Brasília Brasília - DF, Brazil

  45. The Heterogeneous Safety Impacts of Benign Multilingual Fine-Tuning

    Jun 27, 2026Will Hawkins, Kaivalya Rawal, Jonathan Rystrøm +8Multilingual SafetyLarge Language Model Safety

    Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford · Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam · Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  46. Causal Connections: Leveraging Multilingual Fine-Tuning for Financial QA@FinCausal 2026

    Jun 25, 2026Akash Kumar Gautam, Serhii Hamotskyi, Christian HänigFinancial Question AnsweringMultilingual Language Models

    Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

  47. Soft Token Alignment for Cross-Lingual Reasoning

    Jun 25, 2026Jiayi He, Jungsoo Park, Wei Xu +1Multilingual Language ModelsSoft-Token Representations

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  48. A Survey of Toxicity Detection and Mitigation Strategies for Multilingual Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Soham Dan, Himanshu Beniwal, Thomas HartvigsenMultilingual SafetyLarge Language Model Safety

    Scale AI · Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar · University of Virginia

  49. LangMAP: A Language-Adaptive Approach to Tokenization

    Jun 22, 2026Clara Meister, Suchir Salhan, Andrzej Szablewski +3TokenizerMultilingual Language Models

    EPFL · University of Cambridge · ETH Zürich

  50. ROMEVA: Geometry-Preserving Vocabulary Expansion for Roman Urdu Language Models

    Jun 21, 2026Mahnoor Khan, Afsheen Asif, Milhan Afzal Khan +2Multilingual Language ModelsSubword Tokenization

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan · Department of Computer Science, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan

  51. Are Multilingual Models Actually Improving? Isolating True Cross-Lingual Transfer

    Jun 20, 2026Prasoon Bajpai, Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry +2Cross-Lingual TransferMultilingual Language Models

    Google DeepMind · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  52. The Language-Energy Divide: Measuring Energy Costs of Multilingual LLM Inference

    Jun 20, 2026Naihao Deng, Alissa Shen, Yiming Feng +5Multilingual Language ModelsEnergy Consumption

    University of Michigan · University of Cambridge · University of Aberdeen

  53. Leveraging LaBSE with Progressive Curriculum Learning for Multicultural Polarization

    Jun 19, 2026Sachin Sundar, Sandeep Kumar, Mothish MMultilingual Language ModelsCross-Lingual Transfer

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  54. OpenWER: Improving Cross-Lingual ASR Evaluation and Enabling Token-Based Accuracy Metrics

    Jun 19, 2026Korbinian Kuhn, Gottfried ZimmermannAutomatic Speech Recognition EvaluationCharacter Error Rate

    Stuttgart Media University, Germany · University of Tübingen, Germany

  55. Phonemes to the Rescue: Multilingual Tokenization Based on International Phonetic Alphabet

    Jun 18, 2026Milan Miletić, Julie Kallini, Ekaterina ShutovaSubword TokenizationMultilingual Language Models

    University of Amsterdam · Stanford University

  56. Enhancing Multilingual Reasoning via Steerable Model Merging

    Jun 17, 2026Zhuoran Li, Rui Xu, Jian Yang +8Continual Model MergingMultilingual Language Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Fudan University · Beihang University +4

  57. SHIFT: Semantic Harmonization via Index-side Feature Transformation for Multilingual Information Retrieval

    Jun 17, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon +1Multilingual Language ModelsMotion-Language Alignment

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University

  58. Improving low-resource ASR using bilingual fine-tuning with language identification: a cross-linguistic evaluation

    Jun 16, 2026Reihaneh Amooie, Yun Hao, Wietse de Vries +3Multilingual Automatic Speech RecognitionLow-Resource Languages

    University of Groningen · Fryske Akademy · Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  59. Encode Errors: Representational Retrieval of In-Context Demonstrations for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction

    Jun 13, 2026Guangyue Peng, Wei Li, Wen Luo +1Grammatical Error CorrectionMultilingual Language Models

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University

  60. AdaMame: A Training Recipe for Adaptive Multilingual Reasoning

    Jun 13, 2026Dayeon Ki, Kevin Duh, Marine CarpuatLLM Reasoning StrategiesLarge Reasoning Models