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Target-Language Generation in Multilingual Models: Activation Steering and Optimal Control
Sep 15, 2026James A. Michaelov, Carmen Amo Alonso, Tyler A. Chang +1Multilingual Language Models Linear Activation Steering
To Each Language Its Tokenizer: Modular Tokenizers for Efficient Multilingual LLMs
Sep 14, 2026Franck Signe, Hippolyte Pilchen, François Yvon +1Multilingual Language Models
Distribution-aware Language Neuron Identification in Multilingual Large Language Models
Sep 11, 2026Minjun Kim, Inho Won, Junghun Yuk +3Multilingual Language Models Protein Language Model
Probing Factual Knowledge Transfer with Training Data Interventions
Sep 1, 2026Romina Oji, Marc Braun, Marcel Bollmann +2Multilingual Language Models Large Language Model Post-Training
Latent Mechanisms of Language Control in Multilingual Language Models
Aug 31, 2026Ryo Mitsuhashi, Sabri Boughorbel, Majd HawaslyMultilingual Language Models Code-Switching
Evaluating and Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ Biases in German and Multilingual Language Models
Aug 31, 2026Melina Morch, Daniel BraunLarge Language Model Bias Multilingual Benchmark
Double Trouble: Bilingual Pretraining Leaves Language-Conditioned Effects in Shared-Language Representations
Aug 27, 2026Anjishnu Mukherjee, Ziwei Zhu, Antonios AnastasopoulosMultilingual Language Models Indic Languages
One Form to Transfer Them All: Pretraining Multilingual Language Models Beyond Native Orthography
Aug 26, 2026Muge Zhang, Aaron Jencks, Krishna Badikela +2Multilingual Language Models Adjustable Equalizer Curve
BavGround: A Benchmark for Regional Cultural Grounding and Dialect Competence in Bavarian
Aug 13, 2026Jophin John, Michael Hoffmann, Jan Fillies +2Dialects Cultural Alignment
Evaluating Dedicated Monolingual and Joint Multilingual Causal Models for Dravidian Languages
Aug 7, 2026Venkata Naga Sai Vishnu Rohit PulipakaMultilingual Language Models Protein Language Model
Task-Conditional Flow Matching for Balanced Multilingual Text Embedding Adaptation
Aug 6, 2026Tirth Bhatt, Naren Kumar S, Mayank SinghMultilingual Language Models Large Language Model Adaptation
Different Perturbations, Different Mechanisms: Understanding Continued Pre-training for Zero-Shot Dialect Robustness
Aug 6, 2026Aarohi Srivastava, David ChiangDialects Multilingual Language Models
Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains
Aug 5, 2026Ayoub Kirouane, Christos PetrocheilosAncient Greek Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Strengthening Target-Language Features: SAE-Based Steering for Multilingual Inference
Aug 5, 2026Hongsheng Wang, Philipp KoehnMultilingual Language Models Protein Language Model
M-GATE: Multilingual Grammar, Accuracy in Translation, and Efficiency Benchmark for Large Language Models
Aug 4, 2026Tomáš Burkert, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, David ZelenýMultilingual Language Models Translation
Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Multilingual Dense Retrieval
Aug 3, 2026Chao Huang, Yufeng Chen, Changhao Guan +3Multilingual Language Models Contrastive Learning
One Anchor for All: Unified Multilingual and Multimodal Safety Alignment for LVLMs
Jul 30, 2026Enyi Shi, Fei Shen, Chuancheng Shi +4Multilingual Safety Safety Alignment
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 Models Multilingual
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 Recognition Multilingual Language Models
Cascading versus Joint Modeling for Hierarchical Offensive Language Detection
Jul 18, 2026Ruixing Ren, Junhui Zhao, Xiaoke SunMultilingual Language Models Cross-Architecture Alignment
JOR-Bench: Japanese Operations Research Benchmarks for Large Language Models
Jul 18, 2026Yuu JinnaiLarge Language Model Benchmarks AI Benchmarks
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 Models African Languages
Meta-Learning Preferences for Multilingual LLM Alignment
Jul 14, 2026Jiaying Lin, Seongho Son, Nam Phuong Tran +3Large Language Model Alignment Multilingual Language Models
Polarization Detection: A Hybrid Approach with AfroXLMR-Social and DeBERTa for Low- and High-Resource Settings
Jul 11, 2026Muhammad Abdullahi SaidPolarization Multilingual Language Models
Safety Targeted Embedding Exploit via Refinement
Jul 2, 2026Joshua Adrian CahyonoMultilingual Safety Large Language Model Safety
MultiSynt/MT: Trillion-Token Multi-Parallel Pre-Training Data Translated Across 36 Languages
Jul 1, 2026Maximilian Idahl, Jörg Tiedemann, Sampo Pyysalo +19Multilingual Language Models Corpus
Bridging Scientific Heritage: An Arabic--Russian Parallel Corpus and LLM Benchmark for Sustainable Knowledge Transfer
Jun 29, 2026M. K. ArabovMultilingual Language Models Large Language Model Benchmarks
Multilingual Polarization Detection Using Transformer-Based Models with Class Weighting and Threshold Tuning
Jun 29, 2026Aaron Bundi AnampiuPolarization Multilingual Language Models
A Survey of Toxicity Detection and Mitigation Strategies for Multilingual Language Models
Jun 24, 2026Soham Dan, Himanshu Beniwal, Thomas HartvigsenMultilingual Safety Large Language Model Safety
LangMAP: A Language-Adaptive Approach to Tokenization
Jun 22, 2026Clara Meister, Suchir Salhan, Andrzej Szablewski +3Tokenizer Multilingual Language Models
Language-Specific Sentiment Polarity Biases in Encoder and Large Language Model Classification of Product Reviews
Jun 22, 2026Advita Rajiv, Kavitha Kothur, Gautham ReddyLarge Language Model Bias Sentiment Analysis
ROMEVA: Geometry-Preserving Vocabulary Expansion for Roman Urdu Language Models
Jun 21, 2026Mahnoor Khan, Afsheen Asif, Milhan Afzal Khan +2Urdu Multilingual Language Models
Are Multilingual Models Actually Improving? Isolating True Cross-Lingual Transfer
Jun 20, 2026Prasoon Bajpai, Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry +2Cross-Lingual Transfer Multilingual Language Models
The Language-Energy Divide: Measuring Energy Costs of Multilingual LLM Inference
Jun 20, 2026Naihao Deng, Alissa Shen, Yiming Feng +5Multilingual Language Models LLM Inference Efficiency
OpenWER: Improving Cross-Lingual ASR Evaluation and Enabling Token-Based Accuracy Metrics
Jun 19, 2026Korbinian Kuhn, Gottfried ZimmermannWord Error Rate Automatic Speech Recognition
Phonemes to the Rescue: Multilingual Tokenization Based on International Phonetic Alphabet
Jun 18, 2026Milan Miletić, Julie Kallini, Ekaterina ShutovaSubword Tokenization Multilingual Language Models
Enhancing Multilingual Reasoning via Steerable Model Merging
Jun 17, 2026Zhuoran Li, Rui Xu, Jian Yang +8Continual Model Merging Multilingual Language Models
SHIFT: Semantic Harmonization via Index-side Feature Transformation for Multilingual Information Retrieval
Jun 17, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Hyeonseok Moon +1Multilingual Language Models Large Language Model Alignment
Post-Hoc Merging is Not Enough: Many-Shot Model Merging with Loss-Gap Balancing
Jun 15, 2026Kyungjin Im, Miru Kim, Chanin Eom +1Continual Model Merging Model Merging
Encode Errors: Representational Retrieval of In-Context Demonstrations for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction
Jun 13, 2026Guangyue Peng, Wei Li, Wen Luo +1Grammatical Error Correction Multilingual Language Models
Equity with Efficiency: An Empirical Study of Tokenizers for Multilingual Large Language Models
Jun 13, 2026Kieron Seven Jun Wei Lee, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Andrew Ivan Soegeng +1Multilingual Language Models Tokenizer
When Language Representations Interact: Separability and Cross-Lingual Effects in LLMs
Jun 12, 2026Boris Marinov, Angira Sharma, Christian Schroeder de Witt +3Cross-Lingual Consistency Multilingual Language Models
Language-Aware Token Boosting: LLM Language Confusion Reduction Without Tuning
Jun 8, 2026Trapoom Ukarapol, Pakhapoom Sarapat, Nut ChukamphaengLarge Language Model Alignment Multilingual Language Models
Multilingual Fact-Checking at Scale: Fine-Tuned Compact Models vs LLMs
Jun 7, 2026Pratuat Amatya, Vinay SettyMultilingual Language Models
Multilingual Fine-Tuning via Localized Gradient Conflict Resolution
Jun 4, 2026Long P. Hoang, Yiran Zhao, Wei Lu +1Multilingual Language Models Large Language Model Fine-Tuning
Multilingual Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Transfer Learning Approach
Jun 4, 2026Nadine Yasser Abdelhalim, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole SalomonsMultilingual Language Models Cross-Lingual Transfer
DuDi: Dual-Signal Distillation with Cross-Lingual Verbalizer
Jun 3, 2026Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Tinnakit Udsa, Jian Gang Ngui +3Multilingual Language Models Large Multimodal Models
Exploring Adversarial Robustness and Safety Alignment in Multilingual Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Jun 2, 2026Hashmat Shadab Malik, Muzammal Naseer, Salman KhanMultilingual Safety Multilingual Language Models
Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI Evaluation
Jun 2, 2026Anuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion +2Multilingual Language Models Legal Natural Language Processing Benchmarks
When Meaning Travels: A Granular Lens on Hybrid-MoE's Role in Idiomatic Understanding for Language Models
Jun 1, 2026Sarmistha Das, Vaibhav Vishal, Shreyas Guha +3Multilingual Idioms Multilingual Language Models
Parameter Alignment Mitigates Catastrophic Forgetting in Multilingual Expert Language Models
May 29, 2026Sanchit Ahuja, Terra BlevinsMultilingual Language Models Large Language Model Alignment
MIMO: Multilingual Information Retrieval via Monolingual Objectives
May 29, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Heuiseok LimMultilingual Language Models Cross-Lingual Transfer
Leveraging Routing Dynamics in Mixture-of-Experts Models for Efficient Language Adaptation
May 28, 2026Aditi Khandelwal, Marius Mosbach, Verna Dankers +2Multilingual Language Models Large Language Model Adaptation
ClinicalEncoder26AM: A Multlilingual Diagnosable ColBERT Model; Evidences from the MultiClinNER Shared Task
May 27, 2026François RemyMultimodal Clinical Data Bert Models
Routing-Aligned Fine-Tuning for Multilingual Downstream Tasks in Mixture-of-Experts Models
May 27, 2026Guanzhi Deng, Kuan Wu, Haibo Wang +3Mixture-Of-Expert Language Models Large Language Model Routing
On the Limits of Model Merging for Multilinguality in Pre-Training
May 25, 2026Seth Aycock, Fedor Vitiugin, Aleksandr Umnov +2Multilingual Language Models Multilingual
Learning to Route Languages for Multilingual Policy Optimization
May 25, 2026Geyang Guo, Hiromi Wakaki, Yuki Mitsufuji +2Multilingual Language Models Large Language Model Routing
MultiHaluDet: Multilingual Hallucination Detection via LLM Hidden State Probing
May 24, 2026Riasad Alvi, Nurul Labib Sayeedi, Md. Faiyaz Abdullah SayeediMultilingual Language Models Large Multimodal Models
Mix-MoE: Improving Multilingual Machine Translation of Large Language Models through Mixed MoEs
May 23, 2026Bo Li, Tianyu Dong, Shaolin Zhu +1Multilingual Language Models Mixture-Of-Expert Language Models
The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic
May 23, 2026Yosef Worku Alemneh, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de RijkeMultilingual Language Models Multilingual

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

James A. Michaelov, Carmen Amo Alonso, Tyler A. Chang, Roger P. Levy

Ensuring that multilingual language models generate coherent text in a specific target language is a major issue in multilingual language modeling. We develop an optimal control method for target-language text generation as well as a framework for evaluating the quality of generated text in terms of language adherence, linguistic coherence, and semantic coherence. We find that the proposed method performs at least as well as the prominent difference-in-means activation steering method for the majority of models tested, with substantially less hyperparameter tuning required.

Multilingual Language Models Linear Activation Steering Multimodal Generation

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