2 papers
cs.CL2026
CroCo: Cross-Lingual Contrastive Preference Tuning on Self-Generations
Mike Zhang, Ali Basirat, Desmond Elliott
Prior work establishes that controlled contrastiveness between self-generated responses from large language models, set via reward scores, improves downstream preference tuning in…
cs.CL2026
A Computational Approach to Language Contact -- A Case Study of Persian
Ali Basirat, Danial Namazifard, Navid Baradaran Hemmati
We investigate structural traces of language contact in the intermediate representations of a monolingual language model. Focusing on Persian (Farsi) as a historically contact-rich…