2 papers
cs.CL2026
There is No Theoretical Curse of Multilinguality For Embedding Space Structure
Niyati Bafna, Neha Verma, Vilém Zouhar +2
A central goal of multilingual NLP is to achieve high monolingual performance per language and cross-lingual alignment for large-scale language coverage with a multilingual model.…
cs.CL2025
The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure
Niyati Bafna, Tianjian Li, Kenton Murray +4
Multilingual generation with large language models (LLMs) is often of poor quality for mid- to low-resource languages, but the causes for this are not well-understood. We first dem…