Paper reveals fragility in cross-lingual generalization of LLMs
xlr8harder · x · 2026-09-01
Discussion suggests models generalize oddly or narrowly by default, requiring few-shot prompting or extensive RL to behave otherwise. A cited paper on cross-lingual knowledge accessibility demonstrates this stark limitation. The post also notes an interesting embedding-tying intervention mentioned in the research.
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