LLMs Encode Relevance as Cross-Lingual Signals

_reachsumit · x · 2026-07-20

A new study shows that the relevance between a query and a document can be linearly decoded from the residual stream of Large Language Models (LLMs). This signal is most prominent in the middle-to-late layers of the model and exhibits partial transferability across different languages.

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