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The paper investigates weight‑space merging of independently fine‑tuned multilingual machine translation models. Experiments show that merging is more successful when models share a target language, yet it still cannot match the peak performance of language‑specific checkpoints. When target languages differ, performance drops sharply, and analysis reveals that overlapping neuron activation and incompatible upper‑layer geometries cause these failures.
arXiv:2603.18908v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Independently trained language models often learn compatible late-stage representations, despite differences in training objectives, architectures,...
When a tool-using agent is given the same task in a different language, does it still take the same steps? Multilingual evaluation rarely asks: it compares final answers and discards the actions.
The study investigates whether monolingual language models, trained without joint multilingual objectives, develop cross-lingual alignment. By evaluating models such as Goldfish and independently built monolingual systems, the authors find that alignable representational geometry emerges across layers, strengthening with larger data, larger models, or closer linguistic proximity. A single Procrustes rotation on parallel sentences can map hidden states between models, and applying this rotation to a German model’s residuals swaps factual predictions to those of the donor English model, demonstrating functional transfer.
The paper introduces NinaXander, a method for composing frozen language models from different architecture families by inserting a trained shared‑latent adapter between their layers. By running the initial layers of one model, converting the intermediate representation with the adapter, and then continuing with the remaining layers of another model, multiple composed models can be created without retraining. Experiments with RWKV and Pythia show that while some compositions preserve syntactic quality and reduce memory usage, none match the parent model’s accuracy and language‑modeling performance drops on out‑of‑domain data.
arXiv:2610.19696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems allow language models to solve tasks collaboratively by sharing complementary information. These systems typically communicate thro...