Latent Mechanisms of Language Control in Multilingual Language Models

arXiv:2609.00325 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/rm-3284/Latent-Mechanism-Multilingual

Terminology

• Ablation — 41× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Steering — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Graph Construction — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Sparse Autoencoders Can Capture Language-Specific Concepts Across Diverse Languages
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• Language steering in latent space to mitigate unintended code-switching

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