arXiv:2410. 07809v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multilingual instruction tuning (MIT) is challenged by the curse of multilinguality, data scarcity, and high computational cost.
By G\"urkan Soykan, G\"ozde G\"ul \c{S}ahin
arXiv:2607. 19101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable Text Difficulty Assessment is a prerequisite for valid text simplification workflows and personalized learning applications.
By Yiheng Wu, Jue Hou, Roman Yangarber
arXiv:2606. 13647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce SkMTEB, the first comprehensive MTEB-style text embedding benchmark for Slovak, a low-resource West Slavic language, comprising 31 datasets across 7 task types -- nearly 4$\times$ the depth of existing multilingual benchmark coverage for Slovak.
By Marek \v{S}uppa, Andrej Ridzik, Daniel Hl\'adek, Nat\'alia K\v{n}a\v{z}ekov\'a, Vikt\'oria Ondrejov\'a
arXiv:2608. 15964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language-specific competency (LSC) is the phenomenon of a language model performing better or worse depending on the language of the prompt.
By Ishika Agarwal, Arkajyoti Charaborty, Tanner Sorensen, Neha Gupta, Andreas Stolcke
Open web-scale pre-training corpora remain concentrated in English, limiting multilingual LLM development. We introduce MultiSynt/MT, an open synthetic parallel corpus with approximately 4.
arXiv:2604. 18347v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) achieved rapid progress in the recent years.
By Daniela Baiamonte, Elena Fano, Matteo Gabburo, Stefano Simonazzi, Leonardo Rigutini, Andrea Zugarini
arXiv:2510. 05678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable progress in multilingual settings, their performance remains uneven across languages as LLMs often rely on English-centric latent representations.
By Haneul Yoo, Jiho Jin, Kyunghyun Cho, Alice Oh
arXiv:2509. 07829v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Literary translation has recently gained attention as a distinct and complex task in machine translation research, yet translation by small open models remains an open problem, particularly for low-resource languages such as Romanian.
By Mihai Nadas, Laura Diosan, Andreea Tomescu, Andrei Piscoran
arXiv:2503. 05500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose multilingual vector representations, used in retrieval, regression and classification, are traditionally obtained from bidirectional encoder models.
By Nicolas Boizard, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Duarte M. Alves, Andr\'e Martins, Ayoub Hammal, Caio Corro, C\'eline Hudelot, Emmanuel Malherbe, Etienne Malaboeuf, Fanny Jourdan, Gabriel Hautreux, Jo\~ao Alves, Kevin El Haddad, Manuel Faysse, Maxime Peyrard, Nuno M. Guerreiro, Patrick Fernandes, Ricardo Rei, Pierre Colombo
arXiv:2606. 31718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relation extraction (RE) for low-resource languages is typically constrained by the lack of annotated corpora.
By Dragos-Mitrut Vasile, Elena-Simona Apostol, Stefan-Adrian Toma, Adrian Paschke, Ciprian-Octavian Truica
arXiv:2606. 30790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Romanized Code Mixing (RCM), where bilingual speakers fluidly blend local languages with English in Roman script, has emerged as the dominant form of communication across multilingual communities.
By Avisha Das, Mihir Parmar, Mohana Ramnath, Pulkit Verma
arXiv:2608. 07629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual neural machine translation models such as NLLB-200 cover 200 languages but leave thousands unsupported, including most Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon.
By Samiratu Ntohsi, Neza David Tuyishimire, Anesu Kafesu, Marvin Ogore, Samuel Oluwajunwonlo Babalola, Oche Ankeli