arXiv:2608. 27268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large language models (LLMs) mediate access to knowledge and computational assistance, their capabilities should benefit vulnerable groups in the same way.
By Jinghan Zhang, Fengran Mo, Zhiyu Chen, Xiaoyan Han, Kunpeng Liu, Chang-Tien Lu
arXiv:2603. 18482v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Standard decoding strategies for text generation, including top-$k$, nucleus sampling, and contrastive search, select tokens based on likelihood, restricting outputs to high-probability regions.
By Esteban Garces Arias, Nurzhan Sapargali, Christian Heumann, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher
Fine‑tuning large language models on parallel data can improve translation quality but also causes catastrophic forgetting of general capabilities. The study evaluates several forgetting‑mitigation methods—anchored to auxiliary data, model outputs, and base model parameters—using Llama 3.2 1B Instruct and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on Arabic‑English and Spanish‑English translation tasks. Elastic Weight Consolidation best preserves general benchmark performance, yet only data mixing with control‑task examples maintains instruction‑following abilities such as formality and grammatical gender control, though these gains do not generalize to unseen prompts.
By Niklas Scholz, David Thulke, Abdallah Nasir, Will Allred, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney
arXiv:2609.36214v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used by people whose first language is not English, yet these users have been shown to receive systematic...
By Yusheng Zhou, Eleanor Lin, David Jurgens
arXiv:2606. 01322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains heavily English-centric, leaving Low-Resource Languages (LRLs), particularly African ones, critically underexplored.
By Victor Akinode, Senyu Li, Wassim Hamidouche, Waqas Zamir, Inbal Becker-Reshef, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
arXiv:2608. 14896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models work well on English and behave in poorly understood ways on languages typologically far from it.
By Florian Braun