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cs.CL2026

Multilingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventions

Anastasiia Sedova, Natalie Schluter, Skyler Seto +1

Cross-lingual knowledge transfer is critical for building high-performing multilingual language models for languages with insufficient training data. When target language data is s…

cs.CL2026

Optimal Splitting of Language Models from Mixtures to Specialized Domains

Skyler Seto, Pierre Ablin, Anastasiia Filippova +4

Language models achieve impressive performance on a variety of knowledge, language, and reasoning tasks due to the scale and diversity of pretraining data available. The standard t…

cs.CL2025

Discriminating Form and Meaning in Multilingual Models with Minimal-Pair ABX Tasks

Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi, Skyler Seto +3

We introduce a set of training-free ABX-style discrimination tasks to evaluate how multilingual language models represent language identity (form) and semantic content (meaning). I…

cs.CL2025

Analyzing Dialectical Biases in LLMs for Knowledge and Reasoning Benchmarks

Eileen Pan, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Maartje ter Hoeve +2

Large language models (LLMs) are ubiquitous in modern day natural language processing. However, previous work has shown degraded LLM performance for under-represented English diale…

cs.CL2025

Assessing the Role of Data Quality in Training Bilingual Language Models

Skyler Seto, Maartje ter Hoeve, Maureen de Seyssel +1

Bilingual and multilingual language models offer a promising path toward scaling NLP systems across diverse languages and users. However, their performance often varies wildly betw…

cs.CL2025

Task-Adaptive Pretrained Language Models via Clustered-Importance Sampling

David Grangier, Simin Fan, Skyler Seto +1

Specialist language models (LMs) focus on a specific task or domain on which they often outperform generalist LMs of the same size. However, the specialist data needed to pretrain…