Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact? Rethinking Latent Language in Multilingual LLMs
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arXiv:2609.00155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent language identification is often used to argue that multilingual language models route computation through language-specific states, such as English pivots. However, existing probes infer latent language from different signals, such as the geom…
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Lingua Franca or Probing Artifact? Rethinking Latent Language in Multilingual LLMs