arXiv:2607. 18618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent-reasoning looped language models (LoopLMs) offer a different scaling path for machine translation (MT): instead of increasing parameter count or emitting explicit chain-of-thought tokens, they spend additional recurrent computation inside hidden states.
By Wei-Rui Chen, Samar M. Magdy, Chiyu Zhang, Wenhui Zhu, Zhipeng Wang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
arXiv:2609.13916v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present North Small Translate, an open-weight, LLM-based machine translation (MT) model with instruction-following capabilities built on the same fo...
By Tom Kocmi, Alexandre B\'erard, Phil Blunsom, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shaun Cassini, Nicholas Frosst, Ona de Gibert, Aidan Gomez, Nithya Govindarajan, Shun Kiyono, Olivia Lasche, Lawrence Rogers, Kelly Marchisio, Nikita Moghe, Yash More, Camila Moran-Hidalgo, Yiyang Nan, Michael Sachs, Trisha Starostina, Daan van Stigt, Spencer Rarrick, Sebastian Vincent, Ivan Zhang
arXiv:2607. 19226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been established as a viable paradigm for the post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), including downstream tasks, such as Neural Machine Translation (NMT).
By Michael Jungo, Aixiu An
Reasoning language models (RLMs) achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, but still exhibit substantial multilingual reasoning gaps, largely due to language-understanding failures in non-English inputs. English translation can mitigate these failures by expressing non-English inputs in a form that RLMs can more reliably interpret, yet translating every input is unnecessary when the model can reason reliably from the original query.
The paper explores whether structured linguistic reasoning traces can improve low‑resource machine translation by guiding large language models (LLMs). It proposes a pipeline that automatically generates step‑by‑step reasoning traces from Universal Dependencies treebanks, dictionaries, and grammar‑rule banks, and evaluates these traces in in‑context learning, supervised fine‑tuning, and reinforcement fine‑tuning on Xibe and Chintang. The results show that providing reliable reasoning traces at inference time significantly boosts translation quality, whereas using them as training data yields smaller, less consistent gains, indicating that LLMs can benefit from grammatical guidance but struggle to generate accurate analyses themselves.
By Renhao Pei, Yihong Liu, Sampo Pyysalo, Hinrich Sch\"utze, Shaoxiong Ji
arXiv:2606. 02465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning language models (RLMs) achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, but still exhibit substantial multilingual reasoning gaps, largely due to language-understanding failures in non-English inputs.
By Deokhyung Kang, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
arXiv:2605.31378v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) still struggle with fine-grained translation quality estimation (QE), even with long reasoning chains. We argue that...
By Renfei Dang, Xinye Wang, Zhejian Lai, Weilu Xu, Shimin Tao, Daimeng Wei, Min Zhang, Shujian Huang
arXiv:2606. 15080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) show strong performance in English, they often fail to reason in the language of the query, a phenomenon known as language collapse.
By Dayeon Ki, Kevin Duh, Marine Carpuat
arXiv:2608. 00533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models have achieved substantial progress in reasoning capabilities.
By Sean Gip Lim, William Chandra Tjhi, Hai Leong Chieu
The paper proposes a fragment‑based reasoning framework for large language model–based machine translation. It extracts parallel source‑target fragments from retrieved similar examples and uses these fragments as intermediate reasoning traces to generate the final translation. Experiments with the Qwen3 model across six languages and multiple domains show that this approach outperforms standard k‑shot or basic drafting methods.
By Maxime Bouthors, Josep Crego, Fran\c{c}ois Yvon
arXiv:2606. 16222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on intermediate reasoning, yet explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) suffers from a linguistic space bottleneck: each thought must be decoded into tokens, causing high inference overhead.
By Xiandong Zou, Jing Huang, Jianshu Li, Pan Zhou
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (e. g.