Cross-lingual transfer in LLMs is weaker than expected

willdepue · x · 2026-08-20

In a discussion about cross-lingual transfer, the commenter notes that while evident, the capability is significantly weaker than hoped for five years ago. Even simple cross-lingual transfer involving the same topics performs much worse than one would expect.

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