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7 papers

cs.CL2026

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

Prasoon Bajpai, Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry +2

Cross-lingual transfer is a model's ability to generalize capabilities from well-represented source languages to under-represented target languages. Existing measures of a model's…

cs.CL2026

TranslateGemma Technical Report

Mara Finkelstein, Isaac Caswell, Tobias Domhan +18

We present TranslateGemma, a suite of open machine translation models based on the Gemma 3 foundation models. To enhance the inherent multilingual capabilities of Gemma 3 for the t…

cs.CL2025

Rethinking Cross-lingual Alignment: Balancing Transfer and Cultural Erasure in Multilingual LLMs

HyoJung Han, Sweta Agrawal, Eleftheria Briakou

Cross-lingual alignment (CLA) aims to align multilingual representations, enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to seamlessly transfer knowledge across languages. While intuitive,…

cs.CL2025

SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?

Senyu Li, Jiayi Wang, Felermino D. M. A. Ali +7

Evaluating machine translation (MT) quality for under-resourced African languages remains a significant challenge, as existing metrics often suffer from limited language coverage a…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging Domain Knowledge at Inference Time for LLM Translation: Retrieval versus Generation

Bryan Li, Jiaming Luo, Eleftheria Briakou +1

While large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted for machine translation (MT), their performance for specialist domains such as medicine and law remains an open ch…

cs.CL2025

WMT24++: Expanding the Language Coverage of WMT24 to 55 Languages & Dialects

Daniel Deutsch, Eleftheria Briakou, Isaac Caswell +14

As large language models (LLM) become more and more capable in languages other than English, it is important to collect benchmark datasets in order to evaluate their multilingual p…