Summary of The Same but Different: Structural Similarities and Differences in Multilingual Language Modeling, by Ruochen Zhang et al.
The Same But Different: Structural Similarities and Differences in Multilingual Language Modeling
by Ruochen Zhang, Qinan Yu, Matianyu Zang, Carsten Eickhoff, Ellie Pavlick
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper employs mechanistic interpretability tools to investigate the internal structure of large language models (LLMs) and whether it corresponds to linguistic structures. It asks if LLMs use shared or different internal circuitry when handling similar or distinct morphosyntactic processes across languages. The study analyzes English and Chinese multilingual and monolingual models, finding that they employ the same internal circuit for similar syntactic processes regardless of language. Additionally, it shows that multilingual models utilize language-specific components to handle linguistic processes unique to certain languages. Overall, the research provides new insights into how LLMs balance exploiting common structures and preserving linguistic differences when modeling multiple languages. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools for understanding human language. This paper explores what’s inside these models and whether they can learn from different languages. The researchers used special tools to look at the internal workings of English and Chinese models, both single-language and multi-language ones. They found that the models use similar ways to handle similar tasks in different languages. However, when a task is unique to one language, the model uses specific parts just for that language. This helps us understand how LLMs can learn from many languages at once. |
