Blessing of Multilinguality: A Systematic Analysis of Multilingual In-Context Learning

arXiv:2502.11364 · cs.CL · Submitted 2025-02-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-02-17

Updated: 2025-10-08

Comments: ACL 2025 Findings

Journal ref: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2025

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.323

Code: https://github.com/yileitu/multilingual_icl

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Low-Resource Languages — 12× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 9× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing — 6× in this paper
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Activation Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning (ICL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Deep Learning using Rectified Linear Units (ReLU)
• A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment
• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation
• Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Could Thinking Multilingually Empower LLM Reasoning?
• Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models
• The Roles of English in Evaluating Multilingual Language Models
• Analyzing and Adapting Large Language Models for Few-Shot Multilingual NLU: Are We There Yet?
• GLU Variants Improve Transformer
• Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
• Revisiting the Primacy of English in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer
• The Semantic Hub Hypothesis: Language Models Share Semantic Representations Across Languages and Modalities
• Let's Focus on Neuron: Neuron-Level Supervised Fine-tuning for Large Language Model
• Qwen2 Technical Report
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report

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