Summary of Exploring Multilingual Probing in Large Language Models: a Cross-language Analysis, by Daoyang Li et al.
Exploring Multilingual Probing in Large Language Models: A Cross-Language Analysis
by Daoyang Li, Haiyan Zhao, Qingcheng Zeng, Mengnan Du
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper extends probing techniques for large language models (LLMs) to a multilingual context, investigating their behaviors across diverse languages. It analyzes the accuracy of these probes, trends across layers, and similarities between probing vectors for multiple languages. The results show significant disparities in LLMs’ multilingual capabilities, with high-resource languages achieving higher probing accuracy and divergent layer-wise accuracy trends. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how well large language models (LLMs) can understand different languages. It tests these models on many languages to see how they do. The results show that some languages are much easier for the models to understand than others. This means we need better ways of teaching LLMs about low-resource languages. |
