3 papers
cs.CL2026
Linguistic Nepotism: Trading-off Quality for Language Preference in Multilingual RAG
Dayeon Ki, Marine Carpuat, Paul McNamee +4
Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) systems enable language models to answer knowledge-intensive queries with citation-supported responses across languages. Despite…
cs.CL2026
Data Kernel Perspective Space Performance Guarantees for Synthetic Data from Transformer Models
Michael Browder, Kevin Duh, J. David Harris +5
Scarcity of labeled training data remains the long pole in the tent for building performant language technology and generative AI models. Transformer models -- particularly LLMs --…
cs.CL2025
Whisper-UT: A Unified Translation Framework for Speech and Text
Cihan Xiao, Matthew Wiesner, Debashish Chakraborty +7
Encoder-decoder models have achieved remarkable success in speech and text tasks, yet efficiently adapting these models to diverse uni/multi-modal scenarios remains an open challen…